Heidelberg 104: Authority And Submission
As Christians seek to re-assert creational and biblical patterns of living in our late-modern age, it is imperative that we do not over-react as some have done.
Paul was not a sexist nor was he “hopelessly patriarchal” as one polemicist said in the 1990s. Nevertheless, we should not confuse Victorian prejudices with biblical teaching. Paul does not argue that men are inherently smarter or more rational than females. Peter recognized differences and similarities between men and women (1 Pet 3:7). We are both... Continue Reading
How Martyn Lloyd-Jones Helped Start the PCA
In his 1969 lectures at the Pensacola Theological Institute of McIlwain Memorial Presbyterian Church, Martyn Lloyd-Jones set out to answer the question “What is the Church?”
As they walked on the beach, several of the founders of the PCA told the Doctor that they knew that they needed to leave the Old Mainline denomination and to start a new one, but that they feared that they would not have the resources to be able to do so. As the story goes,... Continue Reading
Parenting Our Children’s Prejudice
At two years old, had our daughter already learned to show partiality? By both nature and nurture, it seems she knew how to judge by outward appearance.
What does this truth mean for her response to people whom the world, and even the church, shows partiality? Her only hope to live impartially before God and man is to be reconciled vertically before her Father through Jesus and horizontally to her brothers and sisters through Jesus. It means that my wife and I... Continue Reading
What Not to Say to Single Women in the Church
Please don’t tell me I just need to stop “thinking” about getting married.
“Are You Sure You’re Putting Yourself out There?” Gaaah. We single women have plenty on our to-do lists (see point number two) without worrying about managing our own dating public relations campaign. As I say in my new book, The Dating Manifesto, unless we’re complete recluses or impossibly socially awkward, we’re in the same circles as everyone... Continue Reading
Letter from Bishop: Decision on Boy Scouts of America
The Boy Scouts of America voted to admit openly gay adults into the organization to hold leadership positions.
While there are indications that the BSA has a religious organization exception, which each local troop could invoke, that will provide no protection for any of our parishes and/or schools, which sponsor troops. Thus, effective immediately, the Catholic Church of the Diocese of Bismarck and each and every one of its parishes, schools and other... Continue Reading
10 Reasons Why I’ve Decided To Become Pro-Choice
A satirical look at being pro-choice
Allowing hunters safe and affordable access to lions liberates and empowers the hunters. For far too long they have been oppressed and I will not sit quietly while hunterphobes try turning the clock on hunting rights back a hundred years. 1). Although I am personally opposed to the practice, I do not want to impose... Continue Reading
Former First Southern Baptist Church of Greenville, S.C., to Allow Gay Ordination, Same-Sex Marriage
First Baptist Church of Greenville, a historic church which produced the first Southern Baptist Convention president, will allow gay ordination and transgender, same-sex marriage
Dant’s personally believes the Bible has no family value system for the 21st century. He dismisses Old Testament condemnation of homosexuality as part of Levitical law which Christians no longer practice particularly with regard to regulation of slavery and men treating their wives and daughters as property. GREENVILLE, S.C. (Christian Examiner) – A new non-discrimination... Continue Reading
Planned Parenthood And The Barbarity of America
The abortion industry’s premise is: At no point in the gestation of a human infant does this living being have a trace of personhood that must be respected.
When life begins is a scientific, not a philosophic or theological, question: Life begins when the chromosomes of the sperm fuse with those of the ovum, forming a distinctive DNA complex that controls the new organism’s growth. This growth process continues unless a natural accident interrupts it or it is ended by the sort of... Continue Reading
Be Careful of Nice People
Be careful around nice people. Evil and ungodly men often rely upon niceness to cover their sin.
Niceness doesn’t require that work of the Spirit. In fact, niceness is often a clever ruse Satan employs to fool us into following ungodly leaders. Be careful around nice people. Evil and ungodly men often rely upon niceness to cover their sin. Where Christians can be fast and blunt in defending the truth, unbelievers—and especially unbelievers claiming to... Continue Reading
Unprecedented United Church Probe Could Lead To Removal Of Non-Believing Toronto Minister
A United Church of Canada minister who believes in neither God nor the Bible is prepared to fight attempt to boot her from the pulpit for her beliefs.
Essentially, Sanders said, the review should determine whether she was being faithful to her ordination vows, which included affirming a belief in “God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.” Vosper is appealing Sanders’ ruling, saying it puts any minister at risk of being judged and found wanting. An ecclesiastical court is set to hear her appeal... Continue Reading