Honesty in our positions and consistency in our argumentation is far more important than winning any particular debate or grandstanding about our own virtue. If the truth is not really what we’re after, we will yield to a pragmatic approach that only values getting our own way. We will forsake the truth, reason, and logic for the fleeting exaltation of a sense of personal triumph.
Read MoreIn a society consumed with naïve notions of peace, unity, and tolerance, the idea of any Christian filling the role of a man of war seems to many to be backwards, archaic, or even sinful. Verses about peacemaking and loving one’s enemies are used as proof texts against such an attitude and militaristic metaphors are criticized within the ranks of safe, comfortable church goers and their academic leadership.
But the Bible knows better.
Read MoreGod Himself declared the Scriptures to be an absolute authority. No, He didn’t bow down and worship the texts. No Christian does. But He elevated them far, far beyond our simplistic, modern, so-called progressive notions of “texts written by sinful men.”
Read MoreGreg Morse over at DesiringGod.org has written perhaps the greatest thing I’ve read on the internet all year. It is a fantastic piece and worth of your full attention.
Read MoreCheck yourself before sitting in judgment on the Psalms. They are divinely inspired Scripture and as weighty and powerful as the rest. Take them seriously. God definitely does.
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