Posts from 2020
The Necessity of Good Works
Talk is cheap. Or so said T. C. Halliburton (and presumably others in various forms throughout the ages). The Apostle James would agree, especially in matters of the Christian faith. Anyone can claim faith as a belief in God. Even sound doctrinal statements earn the support of demons (James 2:19). But who will give evidence of their faith by their works? The surety of…
Peace Against Protest
How does God respond to protest? Sometimes the Christian response to protest seems aligned more to Metallica’s statement of parabellum (“To secure peace is to prepare for war, so be it, settle the score…don’t tread on me”) than to a biblical framework of reconciliation. Since the beginning, the nations raged “against the LORD and against his Anointed (Ps. 2:2),” as…
