If you and I can cultivate joy in Christ in our kids, then whether we are there to protect them or not as they grow older they will be naturally defended against the calls of lies and sin. The fruit will be less tempting because they will be less hungry.

If there are commands of God or words that He speaks in Scripture that you would never post on social media though at the same time there is almost nothing you disagree with from your favorite non-Christian commentator, your heart is in the wrong hands.

Hitler did not see Jews as fellow human beings made in the image of God because he refused to accept that human beings were directly made by God.

In our time and place we often seek out the deeper things of life in nature, in environmental causes, or in getting our favorite politician elected. For much of America, “the climate,” a supposedly wounded and anthropomorphic mother, is our goddess, and a favorite politician is our Hercules.

We have astute moral judgment about yesterday’s evils. We are thoroughly willing to say what was wicked about 1940 or 1860. But when the moment is hot, when insults are being slung and influential people are ready to disbar your from the elite circles of your day, when it will actually cost you something with those who hold the levers of power and significance in your society, that is where moral fortitude actually counts.

Reality is stubborn, and every wounded or lost heart that has suffered at the hands of a disjointed, out-of-proportion contention of what women should be is suffering precisely because how and why women were made cannot be changed.

What has occurred over the last century in America is that, as fathers have abdicated the providing for their families financially and spiritually and educationally, our public governing bodies have filled the vacuum.

This twenty-first century social justice movement, accompanied with vocabulary like “being woke” and organizations like Black Lives Matter, is a separate religion with answers to the fundamental questions religions answer.

In 2023, the House and Senate would be shocked to hear someone stand up and say, “Men must obey God, and that is why we must enshrine this in law.” In 1865, it would have barely registered a reaction.

We are creating a society of increasing friction and hostility. And that resulting wear and tear is going to slowly erode society itself.

More than a good job, more than academic success, more than financial achievements, more than even a good family themselves, our highest aim for our children must be that they would be saved from God’s wrath by the glorious grace He offers them in Christ Jesus.

The rule of law, the presumption innocence until reasonable proof of guilt, and the enforcement of rights like freedom of speech and personal property do not just arise in a vacuum. They are fruits that have grown on the Christian tree.

How many laws, ordinances, executive orders get signed into being, how many thousands of small but impactful decisions get made without a single prayer of mine swaying the situation?

How can we live in light of the reality that government is doing things it shouldn’t be doing, is abdicating where it should be acting, and that we are called to submit to the governing authorities while understanding there are times where we must disobey them?

Pastor Tim Keller makes the case for a model of church and Christian ministry in his article “The Missional Church – Redeemer City to City” aimed towards evangelism in a society that is no longer within “Christendom.” My goal here is to charitably review Pastor Keller’s case, and to demonstrate why I find it unpersuasive in light of Scripture and Christian reason.

I want people, most especially Christians, to reconsider a lifestyle of birth control as they reconsider the glory of childbearing and raising children.

Why am I no longer surprised to see a committed Roman Catholic or an Orthodox Jew stand against the normalization of homosexual behavior or the mutilation of children in “gender affirmation surgery”?