Always Reforming

For the past week or two I have been digesting the summary of the Green New Deal published (and then pulled back ) by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.  The GND is basically the New Deal  (as if that was a success the first time around!) injected with steroids and bathed in envirofriendly psychobabble.  It's crazy.  It's, like, literally insane.  Listing all the reasons why is beyond the scope of this post, so I'll just let you read it  here .  I wanted to post the summary released by AOC, but I can no longer find it online.  Her summary was so far left that even her party was afraid to be associated with it.  It basically distilled all the most shocking concepts of the GND into bite-size, honest little nuggets.  You can find several assessments of it on various websites. After consideration, here are my observations about AOC and the Green New Deal. First of all, it is clear that AOC believes that nothing good can be done if the government...

No. Government schools shouldn't teach the Bible to the children of this nation. Then again, government schools shouldn't teach anything.  Government schools shouldn't exist.  Government schools should be abolished outright. The government should stop taking my money and using it to indoctrinate the children of my community with humanistic and socialistic ideologies. There is no such thing as moral neutrality.  Jesus made that clear enough.  If you are not pro-Jesus, you're actually anti-Jesus .  There can be no middle ground when discussing submission to the King. As a Christian parent, I am called not only to protect my children from receiving false instruction, but to apply the truth of God to every part of their training .  There is simply no way that a Christian can obey that command while allowing their children to be indoctrinated in a Godless education system. Any education system that fails to give God the glory that He deserves should au...

The day has arrived.  Liberals are now advocating for the right to post-birth abortion. Let me translate that for you, in case you didn't catch it.  Liberals think it's okay to kill a baby that has already exited the womb. This day of infamy, of ignominy, that liberals swore would never come, has come. We're not talking about political issues or personal preferences here.  We're talking about killing real, live babies that have been born into our world.    We're talking about real children in the real world being slaughtered instead of protected.  We're talking about vibrant heartbeats being ended.  We're talking about vulnerable little bodies being maimed and thrown in the garbage.  We're talking about red blood being spilt. You can try to hide it under whatever semantic guise you want, but that's not healthcare--that's murder. Hippocratic oath, anyone?  More like hypocritical. There is an ineffable darkness in the soul of a med...

I've tried to ignore the subject so far, perfectly aware that this is an issue where balance and level-headedness are rare and difficult, but I'm going against my better judgment and giving it a shot.  Here are my thoughts on toxic masculinity.   Please bear in mind that they are coming from an evangelical Christian perspective. 1) If you think that toxic masculinity (or perverted masculinity or corrupted masculinity...call it what you will) doesn't exist, you're blind or have been very fortunate. 2) If you believe that toxic masculinity exists, but deny that toxic femininity (or toxic feminism) exists, you're blind and a hypocrite. 3) If you equivocate toxic masculinity with masculinity, you're part of the problem, not the solution. 4) If you don't believe that the woman is the weaker vessel, you are not a Bible-believing Christian, nor have you watched the WNBA (I can't blame you for that). 5) If you think that women being the weaker vessel i...

" Woe unto those who call evil good and good evil..." Those are some powerful, frightening words.  They are also increasingly descriptive of the moral condition of the United States of America. We live in a postmodern age (I suppose we're past postmodern by now). Our religion is self.  Our ideals are happiness and personal fulfillment.  Our creed, so unyieldingly maintained, is "Be yourself!" We glorify the present, the temporary, the vain. We have institutionalized selfishness.  We are absolutely obsessed with ourselves.  We're so obsessed with self that we're obsessed with other people being obsessed with themselves. Morality is relative, subjective, individually-defined. It has become clear that the only immoral act, the only behavior that we will not tolerate, is that which elicits guilt.  Naked dudes dancing around child drag queens?  Yeah, that's cool.  Telling dudes that they're dudes and not girls?  Nah...that's intoler...

One of the most controversial subjects amongst conservative Reformed folks (all 12 of us) is whether or not the Sabbath, the Old Testament day of rest, is still for today.  It is a controversial issue because it is an important issue, which is why I keep coming back around to it.  I was raised as a strict Sabbatarian, which meant that on Sundays we didn't work or shop.  Some were stricter than we were (some wouldn't even play sports casually in the backyard on Sundays), but they were few and far between.  While I respect my Sabbatarian brethren and their commitment to applying God's Word to their lives (even when doing so is unpopular), I have come to the conviction that this is not the teaching of the Bible.  As I continue to read and grow in my understanding, it seems clear to me that the Scriptures present a very different perspective on the issue. While the things of God are often very complex, I find it helpful to simplify things, if for no other reason ...

This post is an adaptation of my sermon notes from 12/23. One of life's most fundamental questions, one that we must all ask ourselves is, “Who is Jesus?”   This question has received many answers, and many of them are correct, if incomplete.   Jesus is God.   He is a man.   He is a teacher and a shepherd and our Savior.    The Reformed tradition has long thought it best to view Christ through the lens of His three offices: Prophet, Priest, and King.   Of these three, people like to emphasize His Kingship the least as it is the most repulsive to our human nature (see the Garden of Eden).   Liberal Christianity likes to speak of Christ as our Prophet, Evangelical Christianity likes to speak of Christ as our Priest, but it seems nobody wants to speak of Christ as our King!   The New Testament, however, strongly emphasizes the Kingship of Christ.   In fact, o f the three offices He occupies, His Kingship is perhaps emphasized the mo...