Posts by Ben Hicks

American Christianity has been trending away from the classic song leader and has been increasingly accepting of the worship team instead. This was a change that began in the contemporary worship scene, but increasingly conservative churches have begun adopting this new format. Now, there’s nothing wrong with new. I think Christians are wise to stay…

“You reap what you sow,” or at least that’s what the Bible says. But do we always? Sometimes it might seem like we get away with sin, that we violate God’s commands and nobody knows or that nobody is hurt. Sometimes, if we read quickly and carelessly, we might even think that some of the…

If you’ve done much reading recently on the origins debate, you may have noticed that those who want to make room for evolution in Genesis 1-2 have moved past theories like day-age and gap. The new rationale is that Genesis is a creation myth, an origin story written by an ancient people. Other cultures and…

I’m guessing that I’m like most conservative Christian married men my age, and by that I mean my wife loves Magnolia. In fact, when I graduated with my PhD a couple years back, we took a mini celebration trip as a couple to Waco, Texas. The location was perfect: we visited the silos of Magnolia…

I used to find the Psalms discouraging. Not because the Psalms themselves were depressing, in fact, quite the opposite! The Psalms are filled with accounts of people who faced unbelievable challenges, and through patient faith in God found themselves vindicated against those who stood against them. In the Psalms we read accounts of people at…

Last year our church had a father and son breakfast the Saturday before Father’s Day. We brought in a speaker from a nearby church, and he said something that really struck me. He mentioned that his church had recently given all of their high school grads a chance to share their favorite memory from their…

Last week, Tucker Carlson interviewed Ted Cruz in a long-ranging interview revolving around Israel, Iran, and America. There were quite a few fireworks about a fair number of issues, but one of the more interesting disagreements was whether or not America has a duty to help the modern political entity of Israel. Such a view…

So far in this brief series, we have seen that wisdom is a fairly broad concept with a number of overlapping words that help us get a fleshed-out idea of what it is. We then saw that, at its core, wisdom is about having the skill to make the right decision—but that requires a healthy…

In this brief series on wisdom—which was rudely interrupted after N.T. Wright made some regrettable comments about abortion—we’ve seen that the concept of wisdom in the Bible uses a number of synonyms to give us a multi-faceted look at what it means to live wisely. We then saw the difference between wisdom as God sees…

For those who may not be aware, N.T. (Tom) Wright is one of the most popular, influential, and controversial theologians of our time. If you are unfamiliar with the debate surrounding Wright and his hot take on Paul, his teaching has been addressed previously on our blog here and here. But Wright recently made the…