While Wokeness, Critical Theory, and Social Justice Theory are by no means new world views and ideologies, many struggle with understanding exactly what they are and what the words used in them mean. This is largely because these ideologies are a foundation up, top down, inside out revolution of thought. They demand an entirely newContinue reading “Woke Definitions”
Monthly Archives: September 2021
Revival or Reformation?
A short unfolding of the Book of James… I think James is pointing out what is and must be at the bottom of all the visible bad behavior: filthiness and rampant wickedness (1:21). Bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in their hearts (3:14). Why does James take so much time pointing this out? And why would this not be apparent and clear? Because they are being “false to the truth” (3:14). “Where there is disorder and every vile practice,” says James, there will be underneath that “jealousy and selfish ambition” (3:16). They aren’t living life in the light of “the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change” (1:17). They are living in another wisdom, not from God (which would be good and perfect 1:17), an “earthly, unspiritual, and demonic” wisdom.
Standing Before God, This We Are and No More 