Discipleship in a Microwave Culture

Earlier this fall, I visited with an entrepreneur I initially met through a YBL men’s group. Matthew was an engineer at GE Aircraft Engines when we met. Now, almost 5 years later, he is a small business owner and restaurant operator. As I toured Just Q’in, Matthew led...

Motivation for Christian Living

There has been, and continues to be, a great deal of discussion (and confusion) about what should motivate a Christian towards service and obedience. The great call upon our lives, as God’s children, is to love God completely…”to love the Lord our God with all our...

The Tolerance Jesus Will Not Tolerate

Christians cannot be tolerant of all things because God is not tolerant of all things. We can respect differing opinions and try to understand them, but we cannot give our unqualified, unconditional affirmation to every belief and behavior. Because God doesn’t. We...

Living With Margin

Sitting with a friend in the banking industry the other day at lunch, I asked him what the bank does when someone pays off a mortgage. I wondered if they did some kind of ceremony or celebration. I was envisioning perhaps a little ceremony where the branch manager...

Do Good Works Merit Eternal Life?

Throughout this week I have been walking through the five questions Francis Turretin tackles in his chapter on “Sanctification and Good Works” (Seventeenth Topic). Here are the five questions, slightly modified for ease of understanding: How does sanctification differ...