Cultural Marxism is at the Heart of Our Moral Disintegration
The ideas of Cultural Marxism, Critical Theory and the Institute for Social Research are coursing through all of society and your own veins, whether you know it or not.
The Cultural Marxists of the Frankfurt School believed economic Marxism would fail because of the resistance of the working classes. They believed Marxism could only ever be achieved by undermining the institutions, all of them. They began what they called the long march through the institutions. Who would have thought even a few years ago... Continue Reading
Rethinking Church: The Modern Reformation and the Individual
We need to refocus on the One who has redeemed us.
In this post we are examining the way that individual believers operate within the organizational structure of the church. Foundational to all of this is that we must all maintain an intimate spiritual relationship with God. All the items in this list come after that. Focused individuals are critical to the success of the... Continue Reading
Heaven-bound: What will it be like?
God does more than comfort us with His descriptions of heaven – He also uses them to correct our misdirected desires.
Many of us may remember back in our younger years, wondering if heaven was going to be boring. The idea of strumming on a harp and singing all day, every day, isn’t appealing to most children (nor to many musically inept adults). But while this question bothers many kids, few will ask it out loud... Continue Reading
The Hottest Thing at Church Today
“People who show up on Sundays are looking for the same thing that has long anchored most services: preaching centered on the Bible.”
A Christian wants nothing more than God’s Word because there is nothing he needs more than God’s Word. The Christian may not know it or be able to verbalize it any more than the baby can, but within every true believer will be a deep hunger to be fed by spiritual food—food that is found... Continue Reading
Why Cynicism Is One of the Historian’s Great Gifts to the Church
"Any intellectual historian of any merit will tell you that the last 1,000 years in the West have only produced two moments of paradigm shifting significance, and neither of them was the Reformation."
“The next time someone comes along and tells me that a movie by Mel Gibson is the most significant contribution to church culture since the Apostle John laid down his stylus and parchment, my eyes can glaze over in confident knowledge that what I have just been told is complete drivel. When I am informed... Continue Reading
‘Mindfulness’: Corporate America’s Strange New Gospel
Buddhism without Buddha promises to make workers happier and more productive.
Scientifically, mindfulness is way down there with yoga, acupuncture, and homeopathy in terms of empirically observable results. The evidence for its effectiveness is largely subjective, e.g., self-reported improvements in mood, attitude, stress, or sleep. A recent paper published in Perspectives on Psychological Science — co-authored by 15 prominent psychological and cognitive-science researchers — gently derided... Continue Reading
Why is Godliness with Contentment Great Gain?
How can you find joy in what God gives you, especially when it is less than you had before?
“A Christian comes to contentment, not so much by way of addition as by way of subtraction… Contentment does not come by adding to what you have, but by subtracting from what you desire. The world says that you will find contentment when your possessions rise to meet the level of your desires… The Christian... Continue Reading
Village Atheists and Their Fight for Religious Liberty
In our secular age perhaps Christians and atheists will share a plot of peculiar common ground.
If you care about religious liberty, this is a story you should familiarize yourself with. Village Atheists is really a religious liberty narrative told from the perspective of grassroots atheists. It’s a survey of “that charged terrain that atheists and unbelievers have long occupied between tolerance and intolerance, civility and incivility, equal and unequal citizenship in American... Continue Reading
3 Things you Should know About Religious Freedom and the Church in China
Here are three things you should know about the new threats to religious liberty that our Chinese brothers and sisters in Christ are facing today.
In September, China finally nailed down religious restrictions introduced last year. The numerous regulations, made in the name of national security, prohibit unregistered groups from teaching about religion or taking part in trainings or meetings outside the country (like the Thailand conference), beginning in February 2018. Refined by the fire. This has been the... Continue Reading
What Did Jesus Believe About the Bible?
Rather than grasping for a quote from the sixth or sixteenth century, Christians ought to be primarily concerned to study the example of Jesus Christ.
One of the best ways to learn what Jesus believed about the Bible is to observe how Jesus used the Bible in his earthly life and ministry. In John 10 Jesus is engaged in a heated exchange with a hostile Jewish crowd. They are hostile because Jesus has just made a very controversial claim: “I and... Continue Reading
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