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Who is my neighbor? Biblically speaking, your neighbor is not defined by universal sentiment, but by proximity, providence, and priority. God shows us the Ordo Amoris, not to make us intolerable jerks, but to actually provide true, heartfelt, compassionate care for people. Only when you are near someone can you actually care for them.

Scripture does not allow us to imagine covenantal relationships as disposable. Marriage, after all, is the great earthly icon of Christ’s unbreakable union with His Church (Eph. 5:31–32). God says plainly, “I hate divorce” (Mal. 2:16), not because every marriage is easy, but because covenant-breaking is violent.

And we are indeed a people who need this reminder. We are so prone to judge by appearances. When we see weakness, we assume defeat. When we see suffering, we assume God is absent. But the Transfiguration teaches us that humiliation does not nullify glory. The cross will not revoke Christ’s kingship. The One who will be lifted up in shame is the same One whose face shines like the sun.

Faithful creeds, confessions, and quotes are doing the same work a preacher does; they are explaining, illustrating, and applying the authoritative Word of God. The difference in Scripture and the preacher, the creed, the confession, Charles Spurgeon, John Calvin, John MacArthur, Steven Stanley, and John Fry is that we can err, and the Scripture does not.

Those who you would expect to be the most supportive seem to always find the most superficial and insignificant reasons to belittle and spurn the faithfulness of their prophets. These things should not be.

In John 4, Jesus draws from the well of himself and, by the will of God through belief in the Messiah, distributes the new birth leading to eternal life sumptuously to many Samaritans.

Every political ideology carries an eschatology—a view of the future. Socialism and communism are no different. They share a secularized version of the Christian hope—bringing heaven to earth.

In 2025, we celebrated our fifth year together! We praise God for his mercy and grace for this accomplishment!

These types of diseases and defects occur because of the sin of Adam; however, Louis Berkhof notes that the image of God “still remains in man even after his fall in sin.”

Critics, however, observe that age does not necessarily equal faithfulness. Some point out that these manuscripts, though ancient, were found in regions where the Scriptures may have been less widely used in public worship and more prone to private copying. The very fact that they survived could indicate they were not used as much, making their lack of use due to less trust placed in them.

Toby’s metaphor of the Jews as an “apostate older brother” is sentimental but misleading. Not only is it misleading, but to make the claims he does necessarily distracts from those whom God has declared are actually the true Israel: the church.

Some days, being annihilated in the end appeals much more to my flesh than denying myself daily and picking up my cross (Luke 9:23).