Artemis Lanford is lost. Lia Thomas is lost. The others are lost, hopelessly lost apart from Christ and I simply find no prescription in Scripture for hating the lost. Quite the opposite in fact.

I liken beating up on Contemporary Chrisian Music (CCM) to roughing up your little brother. It’s easy, fun, just doesn’t accomplish much, might even get you in trouble.

The believer is freed from the economy of merit, that great and unbearable burden. Do we really think God would then return to an economy of merit within His kingdom?

What I’m talking about is not revival, but revivalism, that is, the incessant pursuit of revival whereby anything other than this is somehow deemed lesser.

Christless masculinity is as meaningful as heteronormative or cisgender or pregnant persons or any of the litany of doublespeak that proliferates and masquerades as reality today.

Maybe what we are seeing is the inevitable failing of a nation founded in the context of the Gospel, as it has abandoned the Gospel.

You cannot mass -produce disciples.

As honorable as serving our great nation is, it’s temporal, transient, and will ultimately be taken away.

Clearly, had Oprah known her Bible…

This must describe the Second Coming of Christ. It just has to.

But, what if it doesn’t?

I didn’t know the dude was stoned or I probably wouldn’t have approached him.

Satan loves to high-jack godly things and wield them for evil.

What if contentment with spiritual mediocrity is actually an indicator of unregeneracy rather than being lukewarm?

It’s the model, not the execution.

My daughter colored her hair purple one time. One of the ladies called her a slut.

Hell is full of good dudes.

You see, Satan knows all too well the power of a godly father.