The insights of Freud (and many others) revealed truths about our inner lives that, while not as ironclad as thermodynamics or as practically useful as germ theory, were arrived at with enough rigor for psychology to consider itself a science alongside others. Psychology told compelling stories, such as the idea that moral obligations are at... Continue Reading

The Blasphemer is still at work today, and he’s using the same techniques he’s used since the Garden of Eden. Don’t be duped by the demonic magician. He loves diverting our attention from the true threat hiding in plain sight: when we worship ourselves or the broken things of this world instead of the true... Continue Reading

There is another side to loneliness. The loneliness itself may be doing good work in you. It is not good for man to be alone, and that desire for connection, for brotherhood, for a wife and children, for a household of your own, can push a man to go farther, do different things, and challenge... Continue Reading

The one-flesh union of marriage includes the vulnerability of being physically seen and known. Nakedness in marriage is intended to be free from shame, yet many wives experience shame after sexual betrayal—comparison, fear of rejection, and memories of your sin can make intimacy feel dangerously exposing rather than safe. If your wife’s sense of shame... Continue Reading

Adultery is listed and condemned directly in line with bestiality, homosexuality, incest, and other grossly immoral, deeply wicked sexual practices that pagan, godless people engaged in, so much so that the Lord spewed or vomited them out from the promised land that He then gave to His people (Lev. 20:23). To commit adultery, then, was... Continue Reading

“The liberalization of euthanasia laws not only offends the West’s pre-modern moral and religious traditions but also cannot be justified on the uniquely modern idea that euthanasia is a rational means of enhancing the individual’s willful control over his body and life. The deeper problem, however, is that this development is best understood as an... Continue Reading

A decade ago, Partridge was a lifestyle blogger and social justice evangelical entrepreneur who had been “saved from success.” In 2015, he gave a TEDx talk called “How to Value People over Profits” based on his book of the same title. His most controversial view was that yoga pants are sinful.  In recent years, Partridge, who has more... Continue Reading

When you create an AI model to exploit vulnerabilities in an environment, guess what happens? It finds vulnerabilities in an environment. The issue seems to be that Anthropic didn’t think through all the implications of their testing and things got away from them. In other words, it was human error that was the proximate cause... Continue Reading

The fact of Sara’s aging body and barren womb and Abraham’s age of 99 did not deter the Creator of All. Understanding the reasons for Abraham’s faltering faith, God came again to reassure his friend of His promise. Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him. (Ge 17:3) What Abraham needed was a... Continue Reading

Maybe you are protecting your image.  Maybe you fear what people would think if they knew what you are really like.  You are happy to talk about your successes but you never admit your failures.  You have never told anyone about those sins that so regularly get the better of you.  It leaves you feeling... Continue Reading

The Environmental Handbook was published and distributed to thousands of students across the US and Canada. It contained an essay written by Lynne White Jr., titled “The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis,” that had been published in Science magazine three years earlier. It pushed for the re-enchantment of culture, creating a new influential narrative... Continue Reading

When we pray God isn’t irritated by us. He’s not rolling his eyes at me when I ask the same thing over and over and over again. He doesn’t lose his patience through my stumbling words and imprecise petitions. He doesn’t give up because I can’t articulate what’s on my mind as well as I’d... Continue Reading

Christ will not only keep going with a work till it is perfected, but especially, He is still working when He is fitting His people to be stones in his building. It may even be by trials, but when He is cutting off “superfluities of naughtiness” (James 1:21) from His work and people, the things... Continue Reading

Jesus’s sacrifice only needed to happen once, but he will appear again. And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who... Continue Reading

Micah’s language is colorful: these rulers found the good to be repulsive and disgusting, while their wicked hearts delighted in upholding evil. Given the accusations of chapter 2, much of this probably had to do with collaborating and profiting with those who oppressed and despoiled the common people for the sake of gorging on riches... Continue Reading

“Don’t store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves don’t break in and steal” (Matthew 6:19-20).     When you look back to the recorded teachings of... Continue Reading

Instead of having a vibrant, personal relationship with our Maker, we can make ourselves so occupied in mind and soul that we become unable to sense His guidance, hear His voice, or consciously experience His grace. We can make things a real mess. Now make no mistake: those who are living for the Lord will... Continue Reading

“That Jerusalem will be a city without walls indicates that the city will overflow its boundaries because of divine blessings.” Not only would Jerusalem be populated, but it would also be protected. This was not protection that could be purchased or brokered, but rather something only the Lord could provide. One of the unfortunate sins... Continue Reading

Decades ago, I was at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, which is considered a synagogue. At the entrance, I started to take off my baseball cap and put on one of the kippahs they had there. The guard stopped me and said the cap was better. I suppose it’s less likely to fall off. Here,... Continue Reading

God’s Word reveals that all humans have sinned, standing equally in need of a Savior (Romans 3:23). But Marxism labels humans guilty or innocent based on their group affiliations more than their individual sins. For example, Marx portrayed the business-owning class as guilty of being oppressors, while later Marxist thinkers (neo-Marxists) added groups like men,... Continue Reading