This is a rather lengthy piece. So, in an effort to hopefully shorten it a bit by creating a common starting point, here’s a silly metaphor as an introduction: In a large American city was a church with an innovative and captivating minister. The minister had grown the church over a couple of decades…
The oft-wrong and perpetually-biased New York Times recently (14 Jan 16) ran an article entitled “Anglican Church Disciplines U.S. Episcopals Over Gay Marriages.” The article both misunderstands Christianity and misrepresents the “discipline” laid out by the Anglican Communion (neither of which is necessarily surprising from the NYT). These are two things that I’d like to…
[NOTE: This is a fairly lengthy post … but is about an issue which simply MUST be addressed within Christianity today. Please read it and feel free to comment. I welcome the discussion] Those people are zealous to win you over, but for no good. What they want is to alienate you from us,…
Like a coating of silver dross on earthenware are fervent lips with an evil heart. Proverbs 26:23 I was listening to the 2015 year in review (entitled “A Look Back and Ahead”) podcast of BreakPoint This Week and John Stonestreet, Host of BreakPoint and President of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, made…
I’ve made the case (or at least mentioned it) many times before on this blog about how human nature is inherently broken. We are NOT inherently good. When we were conceived, we were wrapped in a fallen flesh. Don’t get me wrong, we aren’t born with sin already on us, but we ARE born in…
The Church of Sweden has appointed a lesbian Bishop … yes, a lesbian Bishop. That’s right, a word that comes from the Old English bisc(e)op, which itself derives from the Latin ebiscopus, which comes from the Greek episkopos – which is the word used in Philippians 1:1, 1 Timothy 3:2, Titus 1:7, and 1 Peter…
But Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine. Daniel 1:8a, NIV Imagine a hostile nation has overwhelmed your land, annihilated your country’s army and has now marched into your city. As a young, Hebrew child (maybe no more than ten or eleven years old) you see your conqueror’s officials…
(Photo of Pope Francis by Franco Origlia – Getty Images) It’s official … it’s what you’ve all been waiting for … Pope Francis has declared 1 September 2015 as the first annual International Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation! It is the natural follow-up to his encyclical calling for political, social and…
… how can anyone call themselves a Christian and still advocate for socialist and humanist ideas? (Specifically: limitation of freedom of religion, speech, private property rights; redistribution of wealth; creation/expansion of tariffs and other intrusions into free trade; creation/expansion of the welfare state; lack of support for traditional institutions like marriage, sex and the family;…
After seeing weeks of propaganda pushed on the populace insisting that the Supreme Court’s ruling on homosexual marriage is something moral and steeped in our nation’s tradition of liberty, I’m upset. After reading about the shootings in Chattanooga, enabled by a spineless national security apparatus and laws intended for the disarmament of the citizenry,…
