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Articles from 2021

 

To be or not to be… Vaccinated?

by Ted Fenske

December 29, 2021

At the center of the COVID crisis is a worldview conflict, and it is this conflict that has birthed the contentious vaccine mandate and effectively divided the church, as well as our country, culture, workplaces, social circles, and even families.

 

Of Sheep and Men

by Joe Boot

October 28, 2021

By any reckoning, the events of 2020 and 2021 have been at once tragic, deeply disturbing, and far-reaching in scope and implication. A kind of paradigm shift has taken place while millions of us were ordered to stay in our homes. What was once unthinkable in the West can never be made unthinkable again.

 

Reconciling our Hopes and Fears

by Ted Fenske

April 2, 2021

To place our hopes in, or to succumb to fear of, anything but Jesus Christ the king of the universe, is to wrongly interpret reality. Scripture is clear that this is a sin to be repented of.

 

Christian Liberty versus Lockdownism

by Joe Boot

February 18, 2021 | Ecclesiastes 

The lockdown of life has exposed a fragility and weakness in twenty-first century Christian thought. How did this come about, and what is the task of Christians in our current cultural moment?

 

Children of God and Lockdowns

by Antoine Theron and Benjamin Hicks and David Engelsma

February 6, 2021

The enforcement of public justice according to the standard of God’s moral law is all the official responsibility that is given by God to the civil government.

 

Following the Footsteps of the Great Physician: Healthcare in the Early Church

by David Robinson

January 13, 2021

Before the advance of Christianity, chronic or severe illness was viewed with suspicion and many people shared the experience of the woman in the Gospel account. The church acted as a surrogate family, which cared for both its own members and those outside

 

Calvin, the King and Civil Disobedience

by Joe Boot

January 8, 2021

The reality and power of the God and gospel proclaimed by Calvin and others at the Reformation shook the nations and steadily transformed Western civilization.

 

The Root of Jesse: Unifying and Renewing a Divided Life

by Joe Boot

January 5, 2021

The Fall into sin consists in a radical corruption at the root of our entire being that necessitates new birth – entailing an equally radical restoration and renewal of all life.