1. The youths that mock Elisha are representative of Israel’s collective contempt and disregard for all things relating to their One True God.
  2. Jesus’s freedom is different. It isn’t meant to indicate that the moorings which tether men and women to what is true, beautiful, and holy are unfastened, liberating them to do anything they please.
  3. Despite what the Pharisees believed and advertised, Jesus was not intent upon deconstructing the fundamental tenets of the Old Testament law. Actually, he proceeds to do just the opposite.
  4. Perhaps the most poisonous venom to afflict the gospel is the notion of "balancing" grace.
  5. The salvation of wretched sinners by an omni-holy and forever-righteous God is, by all accounts, a categorical impossibility.
  6. At times, evangelical Christianity can be a paradox. For as much as Protestants have spurned Roman Catholicism, they’re much more Catholic than they’d ever like to admit.
  7. I believe it’s no small charge to assert that there’s a massive problem in the majority of America’s pulpits.
  8. One of my favorite shows in recent memory is the American law enforcement drama Law & Order.
  9. Among the things that perturb me about modern Christianity is our residual clinging to a sort of “Christian-karma.”