We will be held accountable for every careless tweet. Every careless tweet—including the ones we’ve deleted—are viral tweets before the throne of God. Social media isn’t the problem, we are. Twitter isn’t a bad platform, our hearts are: for out of the abundance of the heart, the hands tweet. If we’re not kind on social…
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When I became Reformed over a decade ago, I was convinced I was the only Reformed African at the time. All my African friends looked at me with bewilderment when I first talked about Reformed theology with them. But then in one of his sermons, Paul Washer mentioned a pastor from Zambia he named “the…
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Jemar Tisby’s first book does a masterful job describing how White Christians in America compromised on slavery and segregation against Black Americans. But in his attempt to expose the American Church’s supposed complicity in systemic racism today, Jemar Tisby reveals his own complicity in foolish, ignorant controversies that breed quarrels within the Church. The Color…
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Ben Shapiro’s slogan is, “Facts don’t care about your feelings.” And he’s not wrong. Our feelings have no bearing on facts. Our feelings cannot change facts. Facts are reliable; feelings are not. Facts are more important than feelings. But we live in a postmodernist culture. The truth isn’t the truth anymore. Facts are offensive now….
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All of my neighbours would probably tell you that I am a good neighbour―except for one. When I shovel snow from my driveway the morning after a snowfall, I always shovel snow from my neighbour-to-the-right’s driveway too. That neighbour is a single Black mother with a teenage daughter and she’s my mother’s friend. She is…
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Mom used to hold my hand as we walked by open sewage and streets covered by feces to get to church every Sunday morning. I was three or four years old at the time and that is one of my earliest memories from my life in Ghana. I remember that mom and I walked from…
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Tim Challies says I am one of his favourite bloggers from this year. Tim has always been inexplicably kind and gracious to me. But when I learned that I made his list of top bloggers from this year, I was shocked. Tim follows hundreds of bloggers, so I’m surprised I am among his favourite bloggers….
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You know about the first Christmas. You know that Christmas fulfilled God’s promise from the Old Testament. You know that a virgin woman named Mary was betrothed to a young man named Joseph. You know that before they married, before they consummated their union, the angel Gabriel appeared to her and announced that she would…
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If you and I disagree on social justice, you’re not my enemy. But if you do not agree that A.J, Howie, Kevin, Brian, and Nick make up the greatest boy band of all time, we cannot be friends. The Backstreet Boys are the best-selling boy band of all time. They’ve sold over 130 million albums…
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The Agenda Project released a repulsive ad in 2015, and it recently resurfaced online. The ad opens with a lullaby and features a baby girl staring into the camera. Then the words, “She deserves to be loved” flashes across a black screen. The video reverts back to the giggling baby for a few seconds, then…
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