You Can Own Your Sin Because Jesus Bore Your Sin

Michael Kelley:

Owning our sin is not the same thing as bearing our sin. It is not feeling a sense of condemnation for the sinful acts we still commit. Nor is it trying desperately to earn our way back into God’s good graces. Jesus has taken care of those things already. Instead, owning our sin means acknowledging our sin without self-justification or equivocation.

An Interview with Presidential Candidate Evan McMullin

I really appreciated this interview between Ed Stetzer and Evan McMullin.

The Remarkable Mr. Graham

Grant Wacker:

The preacher’s long life started on a dairy farm near Charlotte, North Carolina, on November 7, 1918. The Great War in Europe ended on November 11, 1918. He liked to joke that it took the world only four days to hear that he had arrived.

Billy Graham’s 98th birthday, today, seems a good time to pause and think about the impact of his work.

Why Doctor Strange Would Be C.S. Lewis’ Favorite Superhero

Aaron Earls:

Doctor Strange is not orthodox Christianity, but it does open up the movie viewer to worlds beyond our own and that, as Lewis recognized, is a worthy thing. Narnia remains the wardrobe through which Christians can enter into other works and worlds of fantasy.

What If Our Bibles Rose Up and Judged Us?

Trevin Wax:

I’m two months into my new role as Bible and reference publisher for LifeWay, where I have the privilege of stewarding a Bible translation and producing resources that assist people in reading and understanding God’s Word.

But there’s a scary part to my job, a spiritual element that I cannot shake off.

5 Ways to Doubt Your Doubts

Tim Keller:

Some years ago a man began attending our church. He had begun life with a general belief in God, but he had been assailed with doubts during his college years and had lived for decades without any religious faith. After a number of months of attending our congregation he told me that faith in God was looking much more plausible to him. When I asked how that was happening, he said a turning point had been a talk he heard me give on “doubting your doubts.” He said, “I had never realized there had to be some faith under my doubts. And when I looked at the things I did believe, I discovered I didn’t have good reasons for them. When I started to examine some of the bases for my doubts, faith in God didn’t seem so hard.”

Trinity Western Wins

This is good news from my homeland:

A decisive legal victory in British Columbia has put an evangelical Christian university one step closer in its bid to secure recognition for its proposed law school.

The Appeal Court of B.C. released a decision in favour of Trinity Western University on Tuesday, describing efforts by B.C.’s law society to deny accreditation to the school’s future lawyers as “unreasonable.”

One of the books that most deeply affected my faith

A favorite from the archives:

What, of the tens, hundreds, or thousands of books you’ve read in your lifetime, are the ones that made the biggest impact. Of all the books I’ve had the opportunity to read, only one really jumps out at me as being a true game-changer.

What’s interesting is it’s not a book about a theological concept or anything like that. It’s a book about a person, Memoirs of an Ordinary Pastor by D.A. Carson.