Movie Review – Ice Age 4: Continental Drift
Nothing is more powerful than a man's or a mammoth's love for his family
The PG film makes the A-list…offering instead an old-fashioned adventure story about a father who is strong and good, a close-knit family, and the gift of true friendship. Be forewarned: There will be frequent laughter.
The Liberal Arts
An informative history of liberal arts learning along with a compelling case for continued application in our modern era
When the liberal arts are separated from the Creator of the universe and from a higher, overarching purpose, save for common grace, man corrupts the truth and follows after evil. Such secular teaching cultivates in students a fragmented, disconnected perspective of the world that encourages each individual to import and apply his or her own meaning to life. Gene... Continue Reading
Good Intentions Gone Bad
Structuring worship to accommodate unbelievers is misguided because unbelievers are not seeking after God
In Romans 3, Paul makes abundantly clear that unconverted people do not seek after God. Thomas Aquinas understood this and maintained that to the naked eye it may seem that unbelievers are searching for God or seeking for the kingdom of God, while they are in fact fleeing from God with all of their might.... Continue Reading
Look Out Below
Lessons from a ‘flying pair of pliers’
One of the store workers was on a tall ladder near where I was engrossed in my key hunt. Suddenly, without warning, I got clobbered in the head with something heavy. Looking down on the floor I saw a large pair of pliers. I got hit on the head by a pair of pliers! While... Continue Reading
Three Lessons from the Decline of Mainstream Protestantism
What are evangelicals to make of the developments from the mainline denominations?
While the intention may be worthy, the results are likely to be disastrous: a social Gospel that is all social and no Gospel; a church which has nothing to say that secular elites have not already said, and usually said better; a horizontal faith with a penchant for the instantaneous and the disconnected but with... Continue Reading
Exposure to Sexual Content in Movies Predicts Sexual Behavior in Adolescence
A new study links exposure to sexual content in movies at an early age to adolescents' sexual behavior
Why do movies have these effects on adolescents? These researchers examined the role of a personality trait known as sensation-seeking. One of the great dangers of adolescence, is the predisposition for “sensation seeking” behavior. Between the ages of 10 and 15, the tendency to seek more novel and intense stimulation of all kinds peaks. A... Continue Reading
Thou Shalt Not Put Evolutionary Theory to a Test
Evolutionists credit remarkable things to an unguided material process, a process that has significant limitations
My challenge to everyone else believes the evolutionary story of human origins, is not to provide the list of mutations that did the trick, but rather a list of mutations that can do it. Otherwise they’re in the position of insisting that something is a scientific fact without having the faintest idea how it even... Continue Reading
Baur vs. Bauer: Is the New Testament Really Filled with Contradictory Theologies?
Two criticisms of the New Testament that have been used for years that upon closer examination prove to be largely incompatible with one another
There is another explanation for the canon’s theological unity that does not entail appeals to early church conspiracies, namely that these books all have the same ultimate, divine author. But, it is unlikely that modern enlightenment scholarship will ever let that idea on the table. Perhaps no book in the history of the world has... Continue Reading
Insider Movement Report
What are the guidelines for translating words related to Christ’s Sonship?
To change or substitute non-familial or social familial terms with the common biological terms in Scripture is to move in a direction contrary to Scriptural intent. The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) erected a study committee to examine the Insider Movement in foreign missions and Bible translation. This movement has sought to use language that... Continue Reading
‘Gay pride’ parade is no place for Military service members in uniform
Secretary of Defense Panetta violates his own Department of Defense instructions
“I cannot imagine moms and dads wanting their children to be part of a military that pushes the homosexual agenda at every turn”