God Made Man and God Made Woman
1. The Blueprint Was Binary from the Beginning In the beginning, God didn’t make a spectrum. He made a man. And He made a woman. Genesis 1:27 is as foundational as it is offensive to modern ears: “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female […]
Make America Christian Again
Christian Nationalism, July 4th, and the Battle for America’s Soul Ah, July 4th. The day America dusts off her patriotic playlist, grills half a cow, sets off government-funded explosives, and pretends she remembers what liberty actually is. It’s the day we slap red, white, and blue on everything from hot dog wrappers to our Instagram […]
The Forgotten Office: Why the Church Needs Pastors, Not CEOs
You’d think the job description of a pastor would be pretty straightforward. Shepherd the flock. Preach the Word. Guard the sheep. Rebuke the wolves. Live among the people. Pray like a man possessed. Weep with the broken. Bleed for the Body. And yet somehow, in the fog machine haze of modern evangelicalism, we’ve managed to […]
Not All Interest is Usury: A Biblical and Historical Examination
I. The Biblical Foundation of Usury The Scriptures do not shy away from matters of money, property, and exchange. These questions strike at the heart of neighbor love and covenantal faithfulness. The treatment of usury is particularly striking, because it reveals both the generosity of God’s Law and the dangers of human greed. Some modern […]
Overlap ≠ Sameness
“A Purpose Driven Folly” or why Rick Warren should really check out Bible Hub. I hate that I have to actually say this, but overlap does not equal sameness. Our lives are endlessly complicated by the pervasive violation of this simple, unchanging truth. The overlap of two things is often exploited and magnified to advance an […]