Just Released: A Month for Glory
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Pride Month for 2025 is over. But the spirit of it remains and will remain until such time as a right understanding of the image of God is restored in our national consciousness.
That’s why I wrote and just published A Month for Glory-Reflections on How Christ Displaces Pride Month with Everlasting Glory.
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My “retirement” prayer is that God may use these reflections to begin changing the nature of the conversation about human sexuality, even within the church, from mere conduct to Christ, that thankfulness for the glory found in Him begins to replace pride in whatever context it is found.
The Foreword is copied in below to explain why I wrote it.
David
F O R E W O R D
This is a an updated version of four essays I wrote in 2024, one reflection for each week in June when Pride Month is celebrated across our nation.
What prompted me to write them was the Apostle Paul telling the church in the exceedingly sinful city of Corinth that “all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God” (2 Corinthians 4:15 KJV).
“All things” must include Pride Month, but my question was, “How so?” As I contemplated that question and how God’s Word might answer it, two things were impressed upon me.
The first was Paul’s exchange with the Stoic and Epicurean philosophers on Mars Hill (Acts 17: 18-34). He spoke with them on their own terms. He talked about what they talked about, namely, philosophical questions about what life, change, and being are (what philosophers call metaphysics). But for resolution of those questions, he led them to consider the God of the Bible as opposed to the gods represented by the statuary around them. Ultimately, he pointed them to Jesus Christ.
I realized the Pride movement presents the same questions debated centuries ago—there’s nothing new under the sun—and the revelation of the glory of God in Jesus Christ provides unique answers to them. So, I thought, “Why not do what Paul did?” Consequently, in each essay I tried to take something associated with Pride Month, probe the issue at the root of it, and bring consideration of the fundamental question it presents to a resolution in who Jesus Christ is.
The second was found in Paul’s exhortation to “overcome evil with good” (Romans 12:21) and Peter’s affirmation that “by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men” (1 Peter 2:15).
When it comes to the good, the greatest good anyone can do for another is to offer him or her the Christ revealed in the Bible and described in those creeds of the Church that have stood the test of time. Jesus Christ is the Gospel. The gospel is not the moralism often substituted for Him as the propounder of rules to live by. He is the gospel offer.
These essays are my offering to God and the offering of Christ as the gospel to others. May the Holy Spirit let it resound to the glory of God through the thanksgiving of those who, in reading, see and rejoice in “the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ” (2 Corinthians 4:6).