A Mantle of Love for the Weak
On the night I proposed to Anna 15 years ago, she gave me a gift–an antiquarian edition of Thomas Brooks The Unsearchable Riches of Christ. It is a work to which I returned many times over the past 15 years.…
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When Dead Men Speak…
I just finished watching the TV miniseries Chernobyl. I was brought to tears by the end of the series. In the final episode (spoiler alert, the reactor explodes), Legasov, the nuclear expert rises to speak before the Soviet tribunal tasked with…
1 Corinthians 14:34: Did God Really Say…?
While a student, I came across an article by Latin American theologian Elsa Tamez titled, “Women Must Not be Silent in the Congregations!”–in which she argued that Paul gave apostolic instruction about how women should exercise the gift of prophecy…
The “Cereal-Aisle” Syndrome
The grocery store cereal aisle has become a common metaphor for distinguishing the West from the rest of the world, and rightly so. Just after we moved to Eastern Europe years ago, my family and I began the hunt for…
Sufficient Hope
If you could give a new mom the perfect gift, what would it be? Would it be full night’s sleep? Maybe you’d give her a hot meal without interruption or maybe the confidence that she’ll be a good mom. Those…
Sufficient Hope
If you could give a new mom the perfect gift, what would it be? Would it be full night’s sleep? Maybe you’d give her a hot meal without interruption or maybe the confidence that she’ll be a good mom. Those…
Sufficient Hope
If you could give a new mom the perfect gift, what would it be? Would it be full night’s sleep? Maybe you’d give her a hot meal without interruption or maybe the confidence that she’ll be a good mom. Those…
On Platt and Priorities
It’s been an amazing past few days watching the fallout from David Platt’s prayer over president Trump. When I first heard about the situation and read the transcript of the prayer, my initial reaction was quite positive. This was further…
Against Open Doors
Much that passes for Christian decision making in modern Evangelicalism strikes me as a mixture of lazy moral reasoning and illegitimate efforts to discern those “secret things” (Deut. 29:29) that God has never promised to reveal to us. Scripture has…
Strength from Weakness
No words can express the sadness I have felt upon news of the failing health of David Powlison. Dr. Powlison has been one of the great gifts God has given to the church. His book Seeing Through New Eyes is one…