The Bible’s High Calling to Conform to God’s Moral Character
What about making a priority of giving God pleasure in the way we handle our sexuality?
We may feel that because our technology is superior to that of previous generations, so our morality must have evolved to be superior too. We or our friends may want to embrace some of the acts these authors claim God forbids. In our hearts, we are convinced our sexuality is ours alone. Asking some of... Continue Reading
Humanism for Children
A new humanist Web site is designed to furnish children with a naturalistic or atheistic perspective on science, sexuality, and other topics
The new humanist Web site never encourages kids to think critically about the tough questions concerning the justification of humanism itself. Humanists tend to be condescendingly dismissive of theism and oblivious to nihilism. Meanwhile, they blithely extol the virtues of critical thinking, curiosity, and science, apparently unaware of the incoherence at the heart of their... Continue Reading
On Keeping Christmas
Christmas: Is it a day to be ecclesiastically set apart as a ‘holy’ day?
The birth of Jesus was solemnized by armies of angels; they had their music and their songs on this occasion. But how different from those generally used among mortals! “Glory to God in the highest, on earth, peace, good will to men!” This was their song. But is the music and dancing, the feasting and... Continue Reading
The Black Sea Flood: Definitely Not the Flood of Noah
Lately it seems the scientific world has developed a passionate interest in Noah’s Flood
Their claim to have found Noah’s Flood is wrong—nothing but wild, unsubstantiated speculation. Not one of the characteristics of the Black Sea flood match the tell-tale signature of the Flood described in the Bible. And their assertion that the biblical record is just a corrupted version of flood legends derived from their Black Sea flood... Continue Reading
Brothers, We Are Not Perfectionists (2)
The objective truth and reality of God’s actions for us in Christ do have experiential, subjective consequences for us
Now, however, in Christ, there is a decisive break in the old reality. The new reality, introduced in Christ, is that we no longer belong to the law for righteousness and we no longer belong fundamentally to sin. We have been justified and the Spirit who raised us from death to life is at work... Continue Reading
A Parody: John the Baptist’s Conversation with Herod
Several new non-standard versions of an old conversation
He told Herod to consider the fact that he was breaking the law of God. Herod, you are living in sin. You have broken the law of God, and unless you repent you will perish. John the Baptist was probably thinking, “I may lose my head over this, but I’m going to say it anyway.”... Continue Reading
12.21.2012 … The End of the World?
The Mayan calendar does not predict the absolute end of the world, but only the end of a cycle
Note carefully. Such an upbeat vision is predicated upon the end of the Christian world. This new birth must eliminate from human society the first line of the ancient Christian creed: “I believe in God the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth.” This is the great obstacle holding back the dawning of the Age... Continue Reading
Unlearning Liberty
American universities are discouraging students from expressing controversial views
On college campuses today, students are punished for everything from mild satire, to writing politically incorrect short stories, to having the “wrong” opinion on virtually every hot button issue …. this problem will only get worse as university-educated people assume leadership in society without any firm grasp of the fact that good ideas survive challenge... Continue Reading
Abraham Lincoln: The Old School Presbyterian Convert
Lincoln was a solid believer and orthodox Christian in the great Reformed and Presbyterian tradition
“President Lincoln worshiped regularly at NY Avenue Presbyterian Church during the American Civil War. Lincoln and Rev. Gurley developed a relationship in which they frequently discussed theology, and those discussions and Gurley’s sermons likely influenced Lincoln’s perception of the war and its meaning for the nation. Gurley presided over the funeral of Lincoln’s son, William... Continue Reading
Americans Ready to Risk Lives to Save Souls in Monterrey, Mexico
Presbyterians from churches like the PCA, many of them older men, don't let drug war violence scare them away from checking up on the churches they support financially
Retired [PCA] pastor Rod Whited had made the trip from Jacksonville, Fla. When his church learned it was unsafe to send church groups across the border, it hosted a “reverse mission,” welcoming Mexican teenagers to the U.S…. Pastor Andres Garza and his American colleagues didn’t want the locals to think that American missionaries came only... Continue Reading
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