I have posted episode 4 of my new podcast, “By the Waters of Babylon.” You can listen here. In this episode, I discuss the New… Read More »Episode 4 of “By the Waters of Babylon” podcast is now available: “Work that Serves Christ”
I just completed last week a series of posts explaining what I believe to be a biblical doctrine of the differing responsibilities individual Christians and… Read More »The Two Kingdoms and Immigration Policy
Over the past several weeks, I have shown how Scripture describes the rule of God in two ways, in terms of his sovereign universal rule… Read More »Exiles
The nation of Israel was a union of the Universal and Redemptive rules of God on earth, but as we saw last week, the nation’s… Read More »Future Union of the Two Kingdoms
Over the past two weeks I have laid out a biblical case for understanding the reality of two kingdoms: a universal kingdom, God’s sovereign superintendence over… Read More »Two Kingdoms
Last week I discussed God’s universal rule over all things through human institutions that he ordained. This Universal Common Kingdom of God encompasses all people,… Read More »The Redemptive Rule of God
What is clear from this exploration is that each of the three primary post-Christendom approaches to culture have strengths and weaknesses when compared to the… Read More »The Sanctificationist Approach to Culture
The two-kingdom approach is essentially built upon two ideas: natural law and a clear distinction between redemptive and non-redemptive social spheres. The first idea is… Read More »The Two-Kingdoms Approach to Culture