Is Worry A Form Of Pride? An Exploration of 1 Peter 5:5–7
What are the signs and symptoms of pride? If you were to list the manifestations of pride, what traits would make the list? Until I carefully studied 1 Peter 5, I would not have associated worry with pride. It is easy to see the link between worry and unbelief, but how are worry and pride related?[1] The connection between the latter is not as intuitive as the former because worry tends to accompany a lack of confidence. Although...
Love, Loss, and Wonder: An Analysis of Train Dreams
What is life? What kind of man or woman do we want to be? Do we enjoy the good times while we are in them, or are we too distracted to live in the moment? How do we deal with the bad times when they fall upon us like a falling tree limb? Do they crush us, or do we find the strength to stand and walk again? Do we play the victim during the hard times, or do we rise above them? Do we approach our place in the world with presumption or...
Booker T. Washington and the Common Grace of Working with the Hands
With unnerving regularity, we receive reports from sociologists and scholars about the dangers of our culture’s inordinate engagement with digital media. Nor do we have to rely solely on their studies. Every day we see people who are increasingly unable or unwilling to interact with others face-to-face, who doom-scroll the hours away alone in their bedrooms, or who develop unhealthy images of themselves by constant comparison with...
Teaching through History Museums
Why should the church be concerned with what is happening in the field of public history? The Christian faith is historic. A study of the Scriptures is a study of God’s providential acts in time and space. God has acted in the past; He is acting in the present; and He will continue acting for all of eternity. How believers approach history is indivisible from the fundamentals of Biblical faith and practice. The Word of God is true....
Reflections on Jeffrey Rosen’s The Pursuit of Happiness
by Daniel Rodriguez As we celebrate our country’s 250th anniversary this year, I am sure these famous words have rung in many Americans’ minds: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Perhaps no other words in American history have been more influential and...
Don’t Despise the Church of Your Youth
One of my greatest joys is mentoring young men. Through teaching at Welch College and pastoring a church, I am blessed with many opportunities to sit across from promising young men who are growing in the faith and discerning the Lord’s will for their life. Many of them are considering local church ministry. It’s a joy to hear about what they’re learning and how they’re growing spiritually, as well as their plans for the future. Yet...
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