Truth – Standing Before God, This We Are and No More

A Brief Response to Owen Strachan on Alistair Begg

Sensitive content warning. I don’t like writing about these things, but here we are. You can alsofind a video I uploaded on this issue here: https://youtu.be/7FseGTIRwRw?si=uTicNcQevvXDAeVZ You can find Owen’s post here: https://owenstrachan.substack.com/p/unrighteous-wedding-invitations-a?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2 You can also find my original post here: https://standingbeforegodblog.wordpress.com/2024/01/19/alistair-begg-weddings-grace-and-truth-in-a-twisted-world/. This post is not intended to be an argument for or against anyone’sContinue reading “A Brief Response to Owen Strachan on Alistair Begg”

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.

True Friendship in Real Hardship

John 15:13 “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.” In a perfect Friendship this Appreciative Love is, I think, often so great and so firmly based that each member of the circle feels, in his secret heart, humbled before all the rest. Sometimes he wonders whatContinue reading “True Friendship in Real Hardship”