I first heard Allen Levi sing “Morning of My years” when I was in my twenties. The song is about turning forty. After hearing the lyrics for the first time, I remember hoping that this would be my perspective when it came time for me to turn that page. And now that I’ve turned that page some years ago, I still think about this song every year at my birthday. It meant a lot to me then, and it still does now. It represents hopefulness for the grace to age like wine and not like milk. Lord, have mercy on me, the sinner. The song first appeared on an album…
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The Glory of the Eternal Son – John 8:48-59
Jesus says, “Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death.” And yet we know that all of us–Christians and non-Christians alike–will eventually die. So what does Jesus really mean when he says that we will never die? I addressed this question on Sunday morning in a sermon titled “The Glory of the Eternal Son” (John 8:58-59). You can listen at the Spotify or Apple podcast links below.
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My Interview on Alisa Childers’ Podcast
Thank you to Alisa Childers for inviting me onto her podcast to discuss gender, sexuality, and complementarianism. It was a stimulating conversation, and I am grateful to have been a part of it. Alisa is doing great work and producing really helpful content. I encourage you to check out her books and subscribe to her podcast.
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Texas Baptists, Female Pastors, and Fielder Church
Bart Barber has the only report that I have been able to find about what happened at the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention (SBTC) yesterday with regard to Fielder Church in Arlington, TX. If you are unaware of the situation, you can read my previous post about it here. In short, Fielder is a Southern Baptist Church that employs female pastors. After the SBC removed Saddleback Church in 2023, Fielder’s pastor Jason Paredes addressed his congregation, publicly repudiated the SBC’s decision, and said “We unwaveringly, unequivocally, gratefully have female pastors in this church”—to which the congregation responded with raucous applause (see video below). Paredes also made a twenty-minute YouTube video…
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Will ‘AI’ Stand for Artificial Indecency?
On this episode of the CBMW podcast, Jon, Denny, and Colin discuss the troubling implications of xAI and OpenAI announcing they will permit their artificial intelligence products to create pornography.
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No Frenemies to the Right?
All conservatives (especially Christian ones) should know that they are duty bound to say what is true. The “No Enemies to the Right” calculation is immoral and unprincipled because it is not only a refusal to say what is true but an active campaign to defend what is not true. Dissembling is no virtue, especially when it is being used as a cover for moral evil. And make no mistake. Racial epithets and jokes about the holocaust are beyond the pale and ought to be marginalized. [The excerpt above is from my most recent column in WORLD magazine, “No Frenemies to the Right.” Click here to read the rest.]
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Manipulating Jesus to Service Your Idols?
If you come to Christ as a means to another end, then you haven’t really come to Christ. You have just come to your idol. You cannot come to God as a means to another end. Because whatever the end is is your idol (e.g., relationship, grades, school, car). You have to turn from your idols and turn to Christ. But you can’t do that if your appetite is for your idols. That is why Jesus confronts our appetites. Don’t work for the food that spoils but for the food that endures to eternal life. So what are you working for? Are you working and scheming and gaming out how…
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Overcoming the Feminization of Culture
At the National Conservatism conference earlier this year, Helen Andrews delivered a talk titled, “Overcoming Feminization in the Culture.” Earlier today, Compact magazine published a written version of the same thesis titled, “The Great Feminization.” I highly recommend either watching or reading Andrews’ stimulating argument. She contends that “”Everything you think of as wokeness involves prioritizing the feminine over the masculine: empathy over rationality, safety over risk, cohesion over competition.” In other words, wokeness is not merely an ideology but a way of thinking and socializing that is fundamentally feminine. The reason that wokeness spread the way that it did in the 2010’s and beyond is because of a steep rise…
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Who Is Your Father? – John 8:39-47
After Charlie Kirk’s memorial, many Christian leaders began raising the possibility that we are witnessing the beginnings of a revival. While we do well to pray that the Lord would be pleased to pour out his Spirit in revival, it’s too early to say whether we are in the midst of one. It takes time to discern such things. But still, it’s worth asking whether we would recognize a real revival if there was one? What would a revival look like? Would it simply be a whole lot of people showing up in a stadium to mourn a martyr? Or would a genuine move of the Spirit result in more…
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Why Is John’s Gospel So Different from the Others?
One of the great ironies of the Gospel of John: The Greek version of this gospel is on the level of “See spot run.” It’s some of the easiest and most basic Greek that you will read anywhere. And yet, John fills these simple expressions with the most profound statements of Jesus’ identity and divine nature. It’s no wonder that the Nicene Creed is so indebted to the words of John’s Gospel. As I have been preaching through this book, I have told our congregation that the Gospel of John is like an ocean. There are parts of it that are shallow enough for a toddler to splash around in…
