What are the essential elements of worship music? My wife and I heard a stirring worship song the other day. Not only were the lyrics theologically rich, but the music was moving as well. Still, something seemed off. By the end of the song, we realized it was AI-generated—not merely written by AI, but performed … Continue reading Why AI Worship Music Feels Empty
Richard Baxter lived long before comment sections and social media, but he understood Christian controversy remarkably well. What follows is his counsel, lightly edited and applied to the modern habit of online biting and devouring. You may be sure that most quarrels among Christians on social media tend to the ruin of the Church, the … Continue reading A Puritan Checks Your Phone
Ted has gone blind, not by seeing too little, but by seeing too much. He is a highly sought-after therapist with the uncanny ability to see through people. All their moral pretenses and rationalizations are no match for him. Even hidden traumas that stand in the way of understanding do not cloud his vision. Ted … Continue reading X-Ray Ted: A Fable
How many genders are there? If you Google it, you will get varying answers. Medicinenet.com says there are 74. Google’s AI says, “There are many genders, and the number is infinite. Gender is a person’s internal identification and is not determined by genetics.” What does this ultimately mean? It seems illogical to say that by … Continue reading Gender in the Void
The world is doing everything it can to eclipse God. This effort has been underway since the fall. When we look at the pathologies of our culture, we should not assume this battle is unique to our time. Nevertheless, our culture has distinctive characteristics in the struggle for truth, and we should be aware of … Continue reading 4 Ways Mass Media Attempts to Eclipse God
When scientists grapple with ultimate understandings of the real, they’re escaping science itself and delving into the realms of theology, and that theology is almost always bad. CLICK TO READ MORE...
We find some of Jesus' most shocking words in Matthew 7:21-22. He essentially says that some people who call him Lord do not know him. He will one day say to them, "Depart from me; I never knew you." These people are self-deceived. There are signs of self-deception. Seven are listed below, and many come … Continue reading 7 Signs of Self-Deception
We are a people clamoring to be heard, but when the flood of voices drowns their own, many people will raise their pitch and resort to all kinds of hyperbole to gain an audience. Even journalists have degraded their profession by using misleading headlines to coax us into clicking their links. From politicians to personal … Continue reading Truth in a Culture of Noise
The perennial frog in the kettle does not know he is being heated until it is too late. Tepid water feels just fine as it is heated, degree by degree, but a boil begins to roll at some point. In America, at least, if not the Western world, we are beginning to succumb to a new phenomenon—relational fragility. In isolation, manifestations of this trend are not all that interesting—cancel culture, “ghosting,” the divorce rate, family estrangement, and political witch-hunts. On the other hand, combined, we can discern a cultural shift that is quite literally tearing at the fabric of American society. We are now in a time when people are trying harder than ever to be connected but are, ironically, sprinting away from one another at breakneck speed. - CLICK TO READ MORE
The following is a post by Pastor Rob Golding of First Artesia Christian Reformed Church. He also writes for the Westminster Theological Seminary Magazine. Penal substitutionary atonement is difficult to understand, in part because we fail to conceive of the parties involved properly. Matters are complicated when the likes of N.T. Wright hyperbolically refer to “justification” in … Continue reading Defending Penal Substitution
The Fight of Faith 