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Articles by Dwight Castle
God’s People Are a Waiting People
The following is an uncorrected transcript generated by a transcription service. Before quoting in print, please check the corresponding audio for accuracy. John Onwuchekwa: Why don’t y’all turn to Hebrews chapter 11 and stand with me as well, too. As we read, Kevin was out here at the start, lamenting being the first one to speak, when everybody was fresh on Tuesday night after y’all have had a long day, so y’all gonna have to bear with me.
Good News for Our Bodies
The following is an uncorrected transcript generated by a transcription service. Before quoting in print, please check the corresponding audio for accuracy. Collin Hansen For as long as I’ve been paying attention some 20 years or so I’ve heard Christians complain that we need more attention on the body. That is a theological attention on the body. I’ve heard that Catholics have much deeper, more comprehensive theology of the body.
Let’s Go Down: Joy and Humility in Psallos’s Philippians Album
Listening to the albums of Jackson, Tennessee–based music collective Psallos has become a favorite road-tripping activity for my husband and me. As adaptations of whole New Testament epistles, each album is best experienced in a single sitting, when listeners can trace the threads and fully appreciate the complex fabric. Released on October 21, Philippians is the group’s much-anticipated fourth album, coming on the heels of Romans, Hebrews, and Jude.
The Final T4G
More than 15 years ago I crowded into the Galt House Hotel ballroom, just across I-64 from the Ohio River in Louisville, Kentucky, with 3,000 pastors and students. We gathered for the inaugural Together for the Gospel (T4G) conference without much idea of what we should expect. We got something we could never forget. We saw evidence of how nearby The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary had transformed 13 years earlier under the forceful leadership of Albert Mohler. C. J.
Netflix’s ‘Midnight Mass’ Offers Hopeless Salvation
This review contains major spoilers. Even the best of sermons miss their mark when too long-winded. Make no mistake, Midnight Mass, the latest horror series from director Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House), is both a sermon and long-winded. However, the punch line to this cinematic polemic is more about gauzy postmodern logic than anything with theological bite.
The Hard Blessing of Conjoined Twins
Dwight and Stephanie Castle’s twin babies don’t sleep at the same time. When one is resting, the other is moving around, kicking and wiggling and babbling. The problem is, the girls are attached—from chest to belly button. The awake baby is constantly bumping her sleeping sister. “It’s hard,” said Dwight, pastor of missions at Redeemer Community Church in Birmingham. But in the list of the girls’ difficulties, this one barely merits a mention.
The Cost of Gospel Culture
The following is an uncorrected transcript generated by a transcription service. Before quoting in print, please check the corresponding audio for accuracy. Sam Allberry Welcome back to you’re not crazy, a podcast for young pastors from the Gospel coalition. I’m Sam Allberry. I’m joined as always by Ray Ortlund. Good to see you. Ray Ortlund Good to see you, Sam Allberry Sam. So here’s a question to kick us off for fun. If you could be invited to preach anywhere in the world, why some pastor there?
Review: ‘Knowing God’ by J. I. Packer
I first met J. I. Packer in Cambridge in the mid-1980s when I was a doctoral student at Cambridge University. He was already J. I. Packer, the elder statesman of evangelical theology—and had been for some time. Knowing God had been published in 1973 and was by then an established bestseller. It was also the first book I gave to the woman who would later become my wife (C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia was the second).
Why I Reserve the Right to Change My Theology
“If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell.”—Frederick Buechner On a random weekend during my high school years, we had a trivia night at my youth pastor’s house. I liked trivia. However, I didn’t like being wrong and I really didn’t like looking stupid—two things that (perhaps providentially) are often coupled when playing a game that asks uncommon, trivial questions.
The King and the Beast: Understanding Daniel 4
Daniel 4 stands out in the Old Testament as the only story in which a human being appears to be turned into an animal. It may remind you of the classical trope of metamorphosis—think of the sequence in Pinocchio when the boys morph into jackasses or the many tales from the Roman poet Ovid when the gods transform humans into creatures that represent their fatal flaws.
How to Help Children Who’ve Experienced Trauma
Children can experience trauma from a variety of experiences including neglect, physical, sexual, or psychological abuse, death of a loved one, bullying, racial trauma, sickness, and more.
Preorder TGC’s New Advent Devotional: ‘The Weary World Rejoices’
It’s beginning to look a lot like . . . Christmas. Really? Isn’t it just October? I know we’ve just started enjoying fall and pumpkin-spice everything, so it may feel too early to be thinking about Christmas tunes and tinsel trees. However, our TGC editorial team has been working on something special for the Advent season, and we’re excited to get to share it with you. For generations, churches and families have used Advent wreaths to help prepare for celebrating the Lord’s birth at Christmas.
9 Things You Should Know About Catechisms
“Q. What is the chief end of man? A. Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.” Those words are the first question and answer in the Westminster Larger Catechism, which was completed 347 years ago this week. The Westminster Catechisms—both the Larger and Shorter versions—would become some of the most influential catechisms in Christian history. Here are nine things you should know about catechisms and catechesis. 1.
5 Hidden Themes Our Culture Can’t Stop Talking About
The following is an uncorrected transcript generated by a transcription service. Before quoting in print, please check the corresponding audio for accuracy. Collin Hansen: In his day job for the last 15 years, Daniel Strange has taught church leaders about culture, worldview, and apologetics. He studied worldviews and philosophy. He talks about plausibility structures and social imaginaries and cultural liturgies, but it’s not some kind of vain philosophical exercise.
Why Gen Z Christians Need Church History
Nobody is exempt from the influence of the environment in which we live, grow, and learn, either for good or for ill. Generation Z (1997–2012) is my generation, and our greatest danger is also our most obvious blessing: the internet. We’ve never lived without it. Witnessing continual technological advancement—and receiving unhindered access to unlimited resources with constantly updated informational tidbits—is normative for my generation.
How Do I Affirm Goodness In the Workplace?
Why do faith and work matter in the church? Missy Wallace: Sure, thank you so much for asking this. A lot of people have asked me why do faith and work matter, and I think the easy version is because it is where people spend the majority of their working hours. If the gospel changes everything, I think we believe the gospel changes everything, then it must therefore change how we think about our work. There’s a really interesting survey done by Gallup, it’s called the Gallup worldwide survey.
Sister, God Sees You
A single mom sat in the scorching sun, watching her child waste away. She had no food, no water, and no person to help her. She was utterly on her own, incapable of providing for herself or her child. This could be the story of many women across the world for generations. Perhaps it reflects aspects of the life of someone reading this article today. But this is an old story, the story of Hagar, abused by Abraham and Sarai in Genesis 16.
Neither Progressive nor Conservative: The Politics of a Confessing Evangelical
In a 2018 speech in California, former president Barack Obama asserted that “there’s always been a push and pull between those who want to go forward and those who want to look back.” The latter, he added, are marked by divisiveness and fear, while those who wish to go forward embrace a unifying politics of hope.
Should Christians Relocate to Conservative Areas?
“We’re moving you to values, prosperity, and safety.” That’s the tagline of Conservative Move, a real-estate company helping thousands relocate to red states. Founder Paul Chabot summarizes the experience of moving his family from California to Texas: It’s like leaving a really bad relationship. When you get out . . . and you move to say Texas, Florida, the Dakotas, Wyoming, you look back and say . . . “Why did I tolerate that abuse for so long? Why was I in that relationship?
Economics for Church Leaders: Understanding Inflation
The Term Inflation What It Means Inflation refers to a general increase in the prices of goods and services in the economy over time that causes an imbalance that leads to a decrease in the value of money. For inflation to occur, there must be an increase in numerous categories of goods and services, not just in one or two, even if they are substantial. For instance, housing prices in an area may spike, but that doesn’t mean you are facing inflation.
My Adoptive Family Helped Me Understand My Identity
We gathered around a hotel table in Asheville, North Carolina, our attention divided between coffee refills, the morning news, and a toddler who refused her breakfast. We noticed the occasional glance or smile from fellow guests, which we were used to, but an elderly woman nearby finally looked at my parents—and down the table to my African American siblings. “Are all those kids yours,” she inquired, “or are they foster kids?” My mom smiled and replied, “No, they’re not foster kids.
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