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The Blood Beneath the Church IV
Why the Martyrs Still Matter Part 4 — Perpetua and Felicity: Mothers in the Arena Part of an ongoing 52-week Thursday noon essay series exploring the lives, deaths, convictions, and witness of Christian martyrs throughout church history. There is something about the courage of mothers that unsettles people. Strength in men is expected. Endurance in…
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Maybe This Really Is the Year
The thing about being a lifelong New York Knicks fan is that you almost become uncomfortable with success. Pain feels familiar.Hope feels dangerous. For decades, Knicks fans have lived somewhere between nostalgia and delusion — replaying old highlights, remembering old teams, convincing ourselves that maybe this group is different. But now? Now something feels real.…
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The Blood Beneath the Church III
Why the Martyrs Still Matter Part 3 — Polycarp: The Fire Could Not Consume Him Part of an ongoing 52-week Thursday noon essay series exploring the lives, deaths, convictions, and witness of Christian martyrs throughout church history. There are moments in church history that feel almost unreal. Moments so weighty, so drenched in conviction and…
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Dear Class of 2026…
There is something sobering about a graduation ceremony. The lights are bright. The gym is full. Families clap louder than they probably should. Cameras flash. Names are called. Tassels are moved from one side to the other. Everyone smiles because everyone knows this moment matters. And it does. But not because of the diploma. A…
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The Blood Beneath the Church II
Why the Martyrs Still Matter Part 2 — Stephen: The First Christian Martyr Part of an ongoing Thursday noon essay series exploring the lives and witness of Christian martyrs throughout church history. The first Christian martyr was not an apostle. It was not Peter.Not Paul.Not James. It was a servant. A man named Stephen. That…
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The Blood Beneath the Church
Why the Martyrs Still Matter Part 1 — The Church Was Not Built by Comfortable Men Beginning today, this new series will release every Thursday at noon as we walk through the lives, deaths, convictions, and enduring witness of the martyrs of the Christian faith. There is a strange kind of Christianity growing in the…
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John Calvin: A Comprehensive Biography (Warts and All)
Not a myth. Not a villain. A man used by God—brilliantly and imperfectly. Why Calvin Still Matters Few figures loom larger over the Reformation than John Calvin. To some, he’s a faithful expositor who helped recover the authority of Scripture and the centrality of God’s glory. To others, he’s a symbol of severity—rigid, domineering, even…
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The Sword and the Cross — Part 5
The Christian in a World at War There is a temptation, after walking through something like this, to want resolution. Clear lines.Final answers.A place to stand without tension. But if this series has done anything, it should have stripped that illusion away. Because the truth is this: The Christian does not live in a world…
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The Sword and the Cross — Part 4
War in Our Time: Iran and the Judgment of Men There comes a moment in every discussion about war when theory must give way to reality. Not history. Not distant conflicts. But now. And for us, that moment is here. Because we are no longer asking about Rome…or Augustine…or World War II… We are asking…
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The Sword and the Cross — Part 3
When Theory Meets Blood There is a difference between talking about war… …and standing in the aftermath of it. It is one thing to build a framework in the quiet of study—to outline principles, to define categories, to speak of justice in clean, measured language. It is another thing entirely to walk through a field…
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The Sword and the Cross — Part 2
When Is War Just? There is a dangerous instinct in man. When faced with the horror of war, some rush to justify it.Others rush to condemn it entirely. But Scripture will not allow either extreme. Because while Part 1 forced us to wrestle with the reality of war…Part 2 forces us to wrestle with something…
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The Sword and the Cross — Part 1
The Problem of War There is a question that haunts every generation, whether whispered in foxholes or shouted in war rooms: Can a follower of Christ ever take part in war without betraying the Christ he follows? It is not a theoretical question. It is not reserved for philosophers in ivory towers. It is a…
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When Prophecy Fell – Part 7: The King Who Rules History
The story we have traced through this series is not merely a story about ancient wars or the collapse of a city. It is the story of prophecy fulfilled. Long before Roman legions surrounded Jerusalem, Jesus had already warned that the city and its temple would fall. Standing on the Mount of Olives, overlooking the…
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When Prophecy Fell – Part 6: Babylon the Great
The Book of Revelation introduces a mysterious and powerful symbol. A city described as Babylon the Great. She appears in dramatic imagery throughout the later chapters of the book—a wealthy and powerful city accused of corruption, violence, and persecution. Her fall is celebrated in heaven. But one question has puzzled readers for centuries. Who is…
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Beyond All Hope: Christ, the Conqueror of Death
There are moments in life when hope seems to slip through our fingers. Not the shallow kind of hope that says, “Maybe things will get better.”But the deeper kind—the kind that anchors the soul. The kind that believes God is near, that He sees, that He will act. And yet, there are seasons when even…
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When Prophecy Fell – Part 5: The War That Changed Everything
By the year AD 66, the tension that had been building in Judea for decades finally exploded. The Jewish people had endured Roman occupation for generations. Roman governors ruled the land. Roman soldiers enforced imperial authority. Roman taxes burdened the population. But resentment had been growing beneath the surface. Nationalist movements were gaining strength. Revolutionary…
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When Prophecy Fell – Part 4: Jesus Already Told Us This Would Happen
Long before the apostle John received the visions recorded in Revelation, Jesus had already warned that something catastrophic was coming. It happened during the final week of His earthly ministry. Jerusalem was crowded with pilgrims preparing for Passover. The temple courts were filled with worshippers. The massive stone structures of the temple complex gleamed in…
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When Prophecy Fell – Part 3: The Beast and the Number 666
Few numbers in history have sparked as much speculation as 666. For generations, Christians have tried to decode it. Some have linked it to world leaders. Others have tied it to technology, barcodes, microchips, or secret conspiracies hidden beneath the surface of modern society. But the first readers of the Book of Revelation would not…
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When Prophecy Fell – Part 2: A World on the Brink
If we want to understand the Book of Revelation, we must step back into the world of the first century. It was a world that felt increasingly unstable. To Christians scattered across the Roman Empire, the future looked uncertain. The empire seemed unstoppable, its legions stretched across continents, and its emperors ruled with a power…
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When Prophecy Fell – Part 1: The Prophecy Everyone Puts in the Future
Few books of the Bible have captured the imagination of Christians quite like the Book of Revelation. It is filled with dragons and beasts, trumpets and bowls, cosmic battles and apocalyptic visions. For generations, believers have tried to decode its symbols, chart its timelines, and match its imagery to events unfolding in the modern world.…
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J. Gresham Machen: A Forgotten Pillar for a Compromising Age
There are names in church history that everybody knows—Luther, Calvin, Spurgeon. And then there are men who stood just as firmly, fought just as faithfully, but somehow get left out of the conversation. J. Gresham Machen is one of those men. And that’s a problem—because the battle he fought is the same one we’re fighting…
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The Only Kingdom That Saves
Why Every Empire Falls—Except One The stones remain. Across the world, the ruins of ancient civilizations still stand as silent witnesses to the passing of time. Pyramids rise above jungle canopies where Aztec priests once stood before roaring crowds. Mayan temples climb toward the sky, their carvings slowly weathered by centuries of rain and wind.…
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The Real Problem with Humanity
Why Every Civilization Eventually Reveals the Same Story The ruins are scattered across the world. Stone pyramids rising from jungle floors. Cities buried beneath desert sands. Temples carved into mountainsides. Walls that once surrounded great empires now standing silent beneath open skies. Every continent holds the remains of civilizations that once believed they were permanent.…
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Inventing the Noble Savage
Why Modern Culture Romanticizes the Past In 1755, a philosopher sat at his desk in Geneva and began writing an essay that would change the way many people viewed human history. His name was Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Rousseau believed something that would eventually become one of the most influential ideas in modern thought. According to him,…
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War, Honor, and Survival
Native American Tribes and the Myth of Harmony Long before Europeans crossed the Atlantic, North America was already home to thousands of communities. Forests, rivers, plains, and mountains were filled with tribes who had lived on the land for generations. Each tribe possessed its own language, traditions, and ways of life. Some built permanent villages.…
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