Christianity Explored Appoints First Executive Director in North America
Dr. Alan J. Avera has been appointed as executive director of Christianity Explored USA
Christianity Explored is an informal seven-week course for people who would like to investigate Christianity, or just brush up on the basics. Looking at Mark’s gospel, it explores who Jesus is, why he came, and what it means to follow him. This can be summarized in three words: Identity, Mission, and Call. Dr. Alan... Continue Reading
Study Suggests Bad World War II Experiences Led Vets to Church
The impact of faith during and after combat
A new study has found that American veterans who had a negative experience serving during World War II attend church more frequently today than those who were less troubled by their service. The study also found that when service members were fearful in combat, they reported prayer was a better motivator for getting them through it... Continue Reading
First Wave at Omaha Beach
Thousands of Americans were spilled onto Omaha Beach. The high ground was won by a handful of men like Taylor who on that day burned with a flame bright beyond common understanding
When he was promoted to officer rank at eighteen, S. L. A. MARSHALL was the youngest shavetail in the United States Army during World War I. He rejoined the Army in 1942, became a combat historian with the rank of colonel; and the notes he made at the time of the Normandy landing are the... Continue Reading
The Prodigal with 128,000 Twitter Followers
Sammy Rhodes is a campus minister with Reformed University Fellowship (RUF) at the University of South Carolina, but he's best known by his Twitter handle
What has Twitter taught you? It’s easier to be vulnerable on Twitter than it is on Facebook. I love it when people are vulnerable. I think it’s good for me and everyone if I’m vulnerable. One of the biggest responses that I’ve had on Twitter is when I’ve posted a talk I did on my... Continue Reading
Gay Marriage Bill Fails to Go to Vote in Illinois House
Advocates for same-sex marriage lacked the votes necessary to pass the bill
For years, gay rights activists in Illinois fought for legalization of civil unions while slowly working toward a marriage bill. The marriage bill got nowhere, but civil unions were legalized in 2011, giving gay couples across Illinois the opportunity to have the same state-level rights as married couples. After passage of the civil unions bill,... Continue Reading
“Just Do It?” Obedience and the Need for Grace
Thoughts on Augustine and Pelagius
In 405 AD, a British monk named Pelagius attended a public reading of one of the best-selling of books of that decade – and of all time. And he didn’t like what he heard. … It was Augustine’s awareness of his continuing inward struggles after conversion and baptism that lay behind the famous statement that... Continue Reading
Connecting with the Older Streams of Hymnody
The old hymns of the faith provide the bridge to connect the Bible with our personal experience
He saw the need to begin singing substantive songs – songs rich in scriptural allusion and doctrinal truth – that would help bridge this gap. The worship lexicon of these students was anemic. They did not have a good means of connecting the Bible with their own personal experience. The old hymns of the faith... Continue Reading
State Roadblocks Could Complicate Marriage Momentum
If the Supreme Court doesn’t end bans on same-sex couples’ marriages in all 50 states this June, then the constitutional bans in most of the states across the country could prove a stumbling block to the current momentum in the years to come.
Talk of momentum, however accurate it might be regarding public opinion polls, is quickly going to hit a roadblock — 30 of them in fact — that won’t simply crumble after an impassioned floor speech or, as with Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, after learning that he has a gay son. The roadblocks are the 30... Continue Reading
The Pastor and His Money
Money, the need and desire for it, does lots of strange things to people
You are worthy of your hire and the congregation should strive to adequately take care of you and your family, but you must measure the pressure you put on them with the understanding that believers should not give to God out of necessity or compulsion, but with cheerfulness. Part of their cheerfulness will come from... Continue Reading
Gresham Machen, Friend to Catholics
“The Church of Rome may represent a perversion of the Christian religion; but naturalistic liberalism is not Christianity at all.”
“Spiritually, he had to make do too — reading his English Bible rather than in Greek, which brought home some things with a freshness; worshipping with Roman Catholics. Of one sermon he says ‘It was far, far better than what we got from the Protestant liberals’. In conversation afterwards, he could not agree with the... Continue Reading
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