Manufactured fatherlessness is anti-God by rebelling against His calling to be fruitful and multiply. J. Chase Davis explains why the now-passed-but-less-egregious-than-originally-presented Colorado HB 25-1312 still amounts to state enforced fatherlessness. christoverall.com/article/concis…

This might be one of the most important articles you could read this week. It not only challenges churches to love their neighbor by opposing evil, but it gives a taxonomy of approaches to the public square that explains why so many gospel-centered churches are so weak. 👇

"Our children—yes, even children of Christian parents—are sinners. Apart from saving faith in Christ, our children have no hope of salvation. Until they repent, believe, and then are baptized, they are not members of the covenant community." ~Brett Toney christoverall.com/article/concis…

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“There is a trend in Christian theology, growing in its influence in evangelical spaces, that threatens to move the cultural epidemic of fatherlessness right up into theology proper—into the doctrine of God himself.” From my latest for Christ Over All 1/3

“There is a trend in Christian theology, growing in its influence in evangelical spaces, that threatens to move the cultural epidemic of fatherlessness right up into theology proper—into the doctrine of God himself.” ~Kyle Claunch christoverall.com/article/longfo…

"The analogical predicate is proper if the notion has its origin in God and its analog in creation. The predicate is figurative if the origin is in creation and the analog is in God...Father is a divine name predicated of God properly, not figuratively." ~Kyle Claunch

"Mothers can and should be like God in appropriate ways, but the desire to re-name God as Mother would be to reverse the direction of image-bearing, making God after the image of a creature in the very manner suggested by the ancient serpent." ~Kyle Claunch

Audio of article on Fatherhood. “Only God can name himself because no one… can ever have authority over God. When creatures presume to choose for themselves new names for God… they are assuming a posture of authority over God rather than one of… humble submission.” Link ⬇️

"It seems the Gentle Parenting approach is both the way expressive individualists would naturally parent as well as a parenting philosophy that is particularly well suited to produce a new generation of expressive individualists." ~Chad Lawrence christoverall.com/article/concis…

“There is a form of complementarianism that is dying. . . and it is dying because it is sub-biblical, illogical, and contrary to the consensus of church history.” ~Doug Ponder christoverall.com/article/longfo…

Honored to write again for COA 👇🏻 I draw on insights from Andy Naselli, Joe Rigney, Kevin DeYoung and the 2005 version of Russ Moore to address contrasting articles by Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸 and Denny Burk. Fun times 😎

"I wonder if the word designating 'father rule' is the most fitting term for the biblical vision of the sexes in the social order God instituted for humanity. . .the concept of patriarchy (i.e., father-rule), if not the term itself, seems to pervade the Scriptures." ~Doug Ponder

"Broad/thick/natural complementarians have both rules and various reasons for said rules, equipping them with a biblical vision of the sexes that is large enough to inform how men and women should think about the import of God’s design in all of life." ~Doug Ponder

"Formally speaking, all Christian bodies (be they single congregations, denominations, or councils/federations of churches) representing Christianity for the past 1000+ years have adhered to the trinitarian core of the Nicene Creed." ~Leonardo De Chirico christoverall.com/article/concis…

“Creeds do not denigrate the Bible but grow directly out of it. They do not merely describe what we believe but also profess the one in whom we believe.” ~ Donald Fairbairn christoverall.com/article/longfo…

“The Nicene Creed with its person-nature distinction is an extraordinary gift of God through the teaching ministry of the Holy Spirit.” ~Michael A. Wilkinson christoverall.com/article/concis…

"For the Nicene fathers, as for Scripture, the name Father is doing more than naming the relation between God and creatures. It is naming the divine person who eternally begets the eternal Son." ~Kyle Claunch christoverall.com/article/concis…

My latest from Christ Over All briefly considers the significance of the first article of the Nicene Creed: “We believe in one God, the Father almighty.”