Too often, our concept of pastors and church leaders reinforces rather than obliterates the sad state of family life in our current context.
The root of impatience in discipline is really the same as that of overindulgence. In both instances, parents want to make up for lost time, to speed up a process that takes time.
We find it difficult to distinguish between spiritual combatants… and their hostages.
The culture around us knows what it means when they see a church in perpetual bluster and outrage. They know that we are scared.
If the apostles reminded even Paul himself to remember the poor (Galatians 2:10), then surely the rest of us need such a reminder.
The problem with carnal anger and outrage is that it’s one of the easiest sons to commit while convincing oneself that he is being faithful.
A Christian understanding of the world sees a child’s character not as genetically determined but as shaped to a significant degree by parental discipleship and discipline.
It is not, in Calvin’s view, that we sin because we believe the wrong things; it is, rather, that we believe the wrong things because we sin.
We’re a divided country on sexual issues. That’s why every news cycle brings more controversy.
When Christians sing about the wrath of God, we are singing about ourselves.
If outrage were a sign of godliness, then the devil would be the godliest soul in Creation.
Every human being is, by definition, a theologian.
The Bible Belt is collapsing. The world of nominal, cultural Christianity that took the American dream and added Jesus to it in order to say, ‘you can have everything you ever wanted and Heaven too,’ is soon to be gone. Good riddance.