Consumerism, Pragmatism & the Triumph of the Therapeutic

The world regularly fragments us into various constituent groups where we are divided by age, ethnicity, music preference, or political affiliation. Unfortunately, many of our churches reflect those same divisions. But according to Scripture, the church is new kind of society that has been called out from every tribe, language, people, and nation to worship […]

Do today’s Christians focus a little too much on the family? According to Jesus, natural family relationships can actually get in the way of true discipleship, teaching that whoever loves father or mother, son or daughter, more than me is not worthy of me (Mt 10:37). On this program Michael Horton, Jeff Mallinson, and Sam […]

According to Scot McKnight, there is a great deal of emphasis today on social activism, outreach to the poor, and various kinds of programs which people refer to as “kingdom work.” But if you try to get support for evangelism or the ordinary work of the local church, there doesn’t appear to be a lot […]

Should the church attempt to engage the culture in relevant ways, or does this strategy end up continuing to divide us by worldly preferences and priorities that are opposed to the gospel? What does it mean to be a member of a healthy church and, additionally, what does it mean to be a healthy church […]

What is the primary role of the church? Some today argue that its primary task is to participate with God in the redemption and reconciliation of the world through the means of either right wing or left wing social activism. But in 2 Cor 5:19-20, Paul teaches that God has reconciled us to himself by […]

In a humorous moment in the movie Fiddler on the Roof, the main character, Tevye, looks into the camera and remarks, “You may ask, how did this tradition get started? I’ll tell you—I don’t know! But it’s a tradition.” This sets the scene for the movie’s story of Tevye adapting to the changing world around him […]

“Here’s what I love about Jesus. Jesus actually knows that the church is broken and imperfect and falls short. But the difference between us and Jesus is we see that and we use that as a justification to abandon the church. Jesus sees the church, as broken as she is, and on the way as […]

Throughout history, people have appealed to the Bible’s teaching on slavery to justify their own practices. So is the Bible pro slavery? And what’s the difference between biblical slavery and the American slavery of the not so distant past?

Despite the fact that God allowed for slavery, embedded in the Scripture is a sobering rebuke of the institution, as well as an anthropology that teaches that all people are made in God’s image. So the objectification of an image bearer, seeing them as nothing more than an object or property that you can abuse, […]