Are we masters of our own identities?

I just listened to a podcast with an interview by Carl Trueman called “Making Sense of Transgenderism and the Sexual Revolution.” Trueman can be a little academic at times, but I really encourage those of you in any kind of college, or workplaces where...

Three thoughts on death

Three thoughts on death, from Thomas Oden: The prudent person is always prepared for death. Those who live well have no fear to die. Believers do not fear death, but sin. Ecclesiastes 9:10, Psalm 90:12, Revelation 22:1...

God decides what is normal.

What do you think, everyone—let’s not ever settle in to these screen-mediated pseudo-gatherings as if this arrangement could ever be described as “normal.” Right? God decides what is normal. We should always remember that. So far, it is only...

The bad news of Christmas?

Paul Tripp has an interesting article he entitled “The Bad News about Christmas.” Here’s the heart of it: Remember, the miracle of Jesus’s birth is that he was fully God and fully man. God gave himself to us in outrageous redemptive love. God exposed...

Identity and Jesus

Last night we continued our exploration of what it means that God became man, by looking at this topic: The incarnation explains our identity and addresses our attempts at self-definition Current ideas about identity:  1. Identity is self-chosen, without reference to...

Dust of Death, Dust of Life

Here’s one more passage from Francis Schaeffer’s True Spirituality. In the last passage, he urged us to be honest seers of life around us as it really is. In this passage, he discusses the fruit in our lives that comes from seeing the world this way. He...