For Those Who Don’t — or Won’t — Quite Get It
Any dissent can be dismissed as the mean-minded and malicious ranting of the envious and excluded
And that is why, as long as there are unaccountable but powerful leaders out there who take advantage of the decent, honest evangelical people who fund the operation (and lots of whom attend the churches where many of us minister week by week), we have to hope that there will be those who can neither... Continue Reading
The Road to Apostasy
The road to apostasy is paved by bricks of apathy towards Christ. If you want to persevere, then give attention to your affections.
Soon, this frustration of having to perform Christianly and keep up the pretense of loving and loyally following Jesus will be overwhelming. Frustration grows quickly into an uncontainable force. Like a shaken up bottle of soda it needs relief; they can no longer live with the dichotomy between head and heart. Soon, you give way... Continue Reading
What Is One of My Greatest Marriage Mistakes as a Pastor?
I have listen to my wife’s concerns, but have failed to listen to her voice.
My wife has a lot of wisdom. She has saved me from some really dumb mistakes and decisions. I listen to my wife’s concerns as she often times has an intuition and perspective that I did not have that proved very valuable. However, just because I have listened to her concerns about my ministry throughout the years, doesn’t mean I... Continue Reading
America and the Culture of Vulgarity—No End in Sight
A society that increasingly sees all sexual restraint as repression hardly intends to turn back.
On one final point, Siegel is unquestionably right. He argues that “when the culture of vulgarity is produced by so many different factors—commercial, economic, social, aesthetic—there is no end in sight.” That is the sad truth. The culture of vulgarity is now driven by so many sectors of our society that it seems virtually impossible... Continue Reading
An Unconditionally Conditional Faith
Emergent theology encourages the unconditional affirmation of truth whose terms are constantly subject to change
According to Emergents, theological certainty is an historical idol which present- day Christians must cast down if the faith is to survive, much less thrive, in a postmodern era. If we shed that philosophical shackle, we’ll be free to become what Jesus intends us to be: a body of believers, no longer torn by doctrinal... Continue Reading
Sean Lucas Elected to Faculty at Reformed Seminary in Jackson
Dr. Lucas has been elected as a regular faculty member at RTS-Jackson; will continue as pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Hattiesburg, Miss.
Lucas served for five years as the archives and special collections librarian at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. During that time, he and his family joined Community Presbyterian Church in Louisville. The session called him to serve as an assistant pastor and he served there for two years. In 2004, Lucas and his family moved to St. Louis, where he... Continue Reading
Summit Megachurch Founder Isaac Hunter Found Dead In Apparent Suicide
Isaac Hunter, son of Orlando’s Northland Church Pastor Joel Hunter, has apparently committed suicide
Isaac Hunter, 36, resigned on Nov. 26, 2012, from the megachurch he founded after he admitted to other Summit pastors that he had engaged in an affair with a staff member. His wife of 13 years, Rhonda Hunter, subsequently filed a domestic-violence petition against Hunter, describing him as unstable, erratic and suicidal. Isaac Hunter,... Continue Reading
Have Yourself A Merry Twoist Christmas
There is no Oneist joy ‘from’ the world;’ true ‘joy to the world’ comes from the Twoist Creator-God
Thank God for the Twoist Christmas, a unique historical event, distinct from every other event, where God, the totally transcendent Creator, intervened in history to alter human destiny from top to bottom. Here is indescribable mystery. The Creator and the creature united, without confusion, in the same person, to bring about the project of human... Continue Reading
J.I. Packer: The Lost Interview
From a recording that disappeared in transit five years ago, the octogenarian theologian shares how God shaped him first and foremost as a catechist
After your early disappointment in the Anglican Church that betrayed you by not giving the gospel to you, why do you still see the church as important? It was a parachurch organization that early nurtured you. But my faith comes from the Bible. In the New Testament the church is the center of the plan of... Continue Reading
Louis Zamperini at 96, Is Still ‘Unbroken’ After All These Years
The story of this living legend is being made into a movie directed by Angelina Jolie
His wife, he told me, went to Billy Graham’s historic 1949 Los Angeles Crusade and there she found the Lord. She then persuaded him to go along with her and he said that was very upset with having to attend, but eventually, he too made a personal commitment to Christ, and his whole life turned... Continue Reading