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A few years ago we published a new daily devotional for the Christmas season by Pastor Taigen Joos that has been very well-received. This devotional is perfect for… Read More »Order your Christmas Family Devotional Now!
I want to discuss Limited Atonement (Definite Atonement, Particular Redemption—I choose to use the traditional terminology). At the moment, I am not concerned with the… Read More »Limited Atonement: Evaluating the Argument
The current presidential election in the United States has presented a conundrum of sorts for conservative Christians. My aim here is not to defend any position… Read More »Vote so as to obey the Second Greatest Commandment
The evangelical world has come to make much of the distinction between convictions and preferences. For example, evangelical preacher Andy Stanley recently preached a sermon… Read More »Convictions and Preferences
The gospel is the boundary of Christian fellowship and cooperation, but the degree to which we cooperate with others who believe the gospel will be… Read More »Cooperation and Culture: Conclusion
Worldliness in 1 John 2:15–17 could be described as valuing what is temporary more than what is eternal. It is living primarily to satisfy the… Read More »Biblical Illustrations of Loving the World
The new school year has been underway for just over a month. So far it’s been a good year for Central Seminary. The Lord has… Read More »Events Around Central Seminary
Last week I argued that differences among philosophies of culture must necessarily affect cooperation on various levels of ecclesiastical cooperation. Having said this, it is… Read More »Philosophy and applications in the local church
1 John 2:15–17 commands us to love neither the world nor the things in it, such as the desires of the flesh, the desires of… Read More »What Does It Mean to Love the World?
In any political campaign, some politicians would like to reduce policy statements to slogans and soundbites. Soundbites, however, admit no qualifications or nuancing. They resist… Read More »The Heart and Outward Appearances
Up to this point in this series, I have described the essence of conservative Christianity, particularly its philosophy of beauty and culture, and described the… Read More »Differences over philosophy of culture must always affect cooperation
Roger Olson asks, “Why are we afraid of emotion in worship?” The short answer is that we–as in we at Religious Affections Ministries–aren’t. Not in… Read More »Afraid of Emotion in Worship?
A simple question for a simple post today, but the difficulty is in the doing of it, is it not? Jesus regularly arose early in… Read More »Do You Spend Daily Time with the Lord?
In the last issue, I wrote about a speaker who deviated from his topic to deliver certain remarks—apparently extemporaneously—in defense of contemporized worship. I am… Read More »Loud Clanging Cymbals
Last week I suggested that biblical cooperation is not an “all-or-nothing” sort of thing, but is rather dependent upon the particular matter under consideration and the… Read More »Fundamentalism and a Conservative Philosophy of Culture
What does it mean that Moses “considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt” (Heb 11:26)? Did Moses understand who Christ… Read More »Moses, Reproach, and Suffering for Christ
It is possible to disagree with people whom we respect. I had that experience earlier this year when I heard a speaker try to defend… Read More »A New Song?
The purpose of this series is to ask the question of whether a conservative philosophy of worship and culture should affect ecclesiological cooperation. For the… Read More »The Center of Christian Unity
If you could wish for the one thing you want most and have this wish granted, what would be your wish? What is it that… Read More »A Brief Word on Contentment
The current political season has revealed that many avowed conservatives are less driven by ideas than they are by resentment and ambition. The turn from… Read More »Reading to Understand Conservatism