What a Difference Six Years Can Make
How can it be mindless bigotry to hold to the same position that our President affirmed until a little over two years ago?
If bigotry is “the stubborn and complete intolerance of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one’s own” who is the bigot: the one who tries to provide reasons for his views or the one who says there is no reason your views deserve to be heard? If the President’s evolved position proves to be the... Continue Reading
Protecting Children at Church: 6 Suggestions
We should be vigilant to protect children when they are under our watch at the church
Be vigilant in knowing who serves in your church and make the protection of your children a priority for your church. This may not lead to astounding church growth, but I guarantee you that creating sound and open security procedures will set at ease parents who visit your church for the first time. Moreover, I... Continue Reading
Don’t We All Worship the Same God?
Just because one is correct in one’s doctrine of God does not mean that one is orthodox in all other areas
It is not true that the doctrine of God is the only doctrine of importance. It is quite obviously of central importance. However, we cannot reduce Christianity to our doctrine of God. What about our doctrines of Scripture, Christ, man, salvation, Holy Spirit, church, and sacraments? Are they now to be completely ignored in the... Continue Reading
Circular Reasoning and KJV Only-ism
When it comes to Bible translations, we are being illogical if we start with the presupposition that a certain translation is the only perfect one.
In each case the KJV Only advocate is using circular argumentation. How? The assumed standard is the KJV. Why is the KJV the standard? Why not the Geneva Bible, or the Bishop’s Bible, or the Great Bible? Could we not choose any one of these earlier English translations and then make up page after page... Continue Reading
What Are We Saved From?
Here is a good question that every Christian witness should be able to answer.
According to John, our greatest need is to be saved from perishing. But what doesperish mean? The best way to answer is to consider biblical statements that illuminate this teaching. For instance, there is Jesus’ reference in this same chapter to the “serpent in the wilderness,” which Moses lifted up (John 3:14). Jesus was referring to... Continue Reading
PCA Minister Lloyd Kim Nominated as Mission to the World Coordinator
In 2007, the Kims moved to Cambodia to initiate a new church-planting work
Dr. Kim, an ordained PCA pastor, received a M.Div. from Westminster Seminary California and a Ph.D. from Fuller Theological Seminary. He served as associate pastor with New Life Mission Church (PCA) in Fullerton, Calif., before joining MTW. In 2004 Dr. Kim and his wife, Eda, a medical doctor, were sent by MTW to Manila, Philippines.... Continue Reading
ISIS Forces Last Iraqi Christians to Flee Mosul
By 1 p.m. on Friday almost every Christian in Mosul had heard the Sunni militants’ message — they had until noon Saturday to leave the city
A YouTube video shows ISIS taking sledgehammers to the tomb of Jonah, something that was also confirmed by Mr. Hikmat. The militants also removed the cross from St. Ephrem’s Cathedral, the seat of the Syriac Orthodox archdiocese in Mosul, and put up the black ISIS flag in its place. BAGHDAD — By 1 p.m.... Continue Reading
What’s Happening to Gordon College is Just the Beginning
There is far more government bullying ahead for every private school, charity, parachurch organization, and even churches.
It is now excruciatingly clear we live in a time where some people who have political power are on a crusade against people who, in their view, commit moral thought crime. A religious college loses all reason for existence if it must conform to a diametrically opposite moral code….If a religious school cannot act... Continue Reading
Can Gay Love Really Be Straight? A Reply to Mark Joseph Stern
Can the homosexual form of sexual desire support the society’s most important institution in the same way that the heterosexual form of sexual desire does?
And it definitely does not mean that in the long run gay culture can cultivate and sustain the attitudes, behaviors, and norms that will conform gays to the ideal of marriage rather than reform marriage to the realities of homosexuality. Individual gays cannot remake homosexuality to fit the marital paradigm any more than individual heterosexuals... Continue Reading
Former Homosexual Reveals ‘Unmitigated Disaster of Gay Marriage’
Active homosexuals are trying to find something through gay relationships that can never be found there
All that to say—the term “gay marriage” is an oxymoron. It is an invention of broken man in defiance against the expressed desire and design of God for mankind. It is the fallen creature trying to tell the omniscient Creator how things should be. Even the misnamed “gay Christian”—those who practice homosexuality without repentance and... Continue Reading