Life is not a lazy river. God is the kind of author that keeps the plot moving forward. He appears… Read more When God Puts You On The Edge Of Your Seat

If you live long enough, someone is going to shame you. It may be the enraged leftist spitting on your… Read more A Strategy For When They Throw Stones

2 Samuel 15 tells the story of Absalom’s conspiracy. And in this conspiracy we see both a fulfillment of God’s… Read more Two Sons of David 

J. I. Packer has said that covenant theology is “a hermeneutic . . . a way of reading the whole Bible that… Read more How God Fulfills His Promises

A common misconception today is that our sin only affect ourselves. Some have even ran this notion to the extreme,… Read more Our Sin Indeed Affects Others and Other Good News . . .

Given the modern air we are all breathing, Christians can easily make the mistake of thinking they are playing Solitaire,… Read more High Stakes Holiness

2 Samuel 7 The short answer is, you betcha. Modern people don’t like this idea. It hits a little too… Read more Does God Have a Kingdom on Earth?

2 Samuel 6 Lewis once said that if the saints were to catch a glimpse of each other in our… Read more There Is No Salvation for Cowards

I have made the point that there are three different types of Christian community. The first is separatist pietism that… Read more The Spirit of Malcom X Won’t Do

Dante captured the idea well in his Divine Comedy. Our sins themselves are what come around to bite us. Caiaphas,… Read more When the Blood Comes Around