John the priest is baptizing Jesus into the priesthood. Numbers 8:5-7 describes the baptizmos, “And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 6 ‘Take the Levites from among the people of Israel and cleanse them. 7 Thus you shall do to them to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of purification upon them, and let them go with a razor over all their body, and wash their clothes and cleanse themselves.’”...

When left with such unprofitable chicanery—such thinness—it’s easy to understand why professing Christians are pining for more, wishing to see evangelicalism deposed. Some race to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the Roman Catholic Church, hoping that a new system of authority will compose a new nature, education, and habit of life. Others race in the opposite direction and adopt an anti-institution...

There is one thread tying together the greatest evils of American paganism, a fashionable and flaming war on human beings as human beings. No longer is man made in the image of God with dignity and worth. No longer is man the prize of creation as body and soul. No longer is man an embodied being of essence preceding existence, fashioned by a Maker with a Nature making humans with a nature....

With the Obergefell decision in June of 2015, the sodomy lobby got everything it wanted. What next? It used to be LGB rights. Now it's LGBT rights and the “T” isn't like anything that came previously. Before Obergefell, transgenderism was fittingly arcane. Needing a new cause, the activists mobilized their money, resources, and sophistic attempts to legitimize transgenderism. Younger people are pr...

Moral authority is unraveling in our society because the meaning of confession, fear, and habits are unraveling. The guilt you confess, the things you fear, and the habits you form are inextricably tied to the full tide of human existence. When there is no consensus about what and what not to confess, fear, and do; when there is no transcendent moral standard, then moral messages matri......