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Ephesians 6:10–18 tells us spiritual warfare is the application of the divine weapons of truth and love to our own hearts and minds to free us from fear, selfishness, guilt, and shame. In this two-part blog, let’s explore the details of this armor.

I applaud the effort to move away from the distorted and erroneous penal/legal system, which undermines trust in God. However, any attempt to remove the death of Christ as a requirement for salvation is misguided. The death of Christ was a requirement for our salvation in multiple ways…

How is it that Christ’s substitutionary sacrifice is sufficient to save humans from sin but is not able to save Satan and his fallen angels from sin?

Why does “Pride [go] before destruction, [and] a haughty spirit before a fall?” What is the problem with pride? Why is pride a sin? Let’s find out…

God reveals truth, often through various symbols, metaphors, and parables, but also by real actions in human history—and Satan reimagines and reinterprets them in ways that appeal to the fear-driven, self-centered heart, and unconverted people eagerly embrace the reimagined symbol.

Paul calls us to love, which is the bond of perfection, and Jesus calls us to be perfect as His Father is perfect in the context of love! And love cannot be obtained through imposed law and law enforcement. Love cannot be measured by how well someone performs a task.

What does it mean to celebrate Easter? How do we participate in Christ’s victory as God intends? 

How are we supposed to put to death the earthly nature? Some desperate souls throughout history have thought to do this by mortification of the body. Righteousness is not about the external deeds, but the motives of the heart.

Within the schools of psychoanalytic thought, there has been a long debate between classic Freudian analysts and Object Relations analysts, who focus on the drive for relationship and attachment, as to which drive is primary—the selfish drive of the id, or the desire for attachment, relationship, and love. Let’s explore this further…

Let’s unpack the story of King David and the temple. Despite David being a man after God’s own heart, despite God promising him that one of his descendants would be the Messiah and reign eternally on his throne, God refused to let David build the temple in Jerusalem. Why?