42: 3 Lessons From Former Dodgers Owner Branch Rickey
There are 3 lessons we can learn from Branch Rickey the former owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers
Racism still exists and always will until our Savior returns to consummate his marriage with the church. Racism doesn’t go away with the times nor does it cease to exist when we change time zones. Racism does not care what color or gender you are. Why? Because racism is sin, and sin does not show... Continue Reading
Whatever Happened to Bobbie Gentry or Why Don’t Christians Sing Like They Used To?
What is happening to singing in the modern church, and particularly in my particular part of it?
I think we don’t sing loud because we don’t really have the sacred affections that Edwards wrote so eloquently about nearly three centuries ago. The only thing that will help our singing is if the Holy Spirit puts the song back in our hearts. I long for that to happen. I long for a church... Continue Reading
Confronting the Real “War on Women”
Casual sex, cohabitation, and the collapse of marriage are three of the worst “falsehoods that constitute a very real war on women”
Perhaps men aren’t meant to leave their families for over 40 hours a week to pursue a career. With the Industrial Revolution, “the working, teaching father ha[s] gone extinct.” Fathers are unnaturally “displaced” from their homes, so their sons never observe them working and learn from that example. This, MacPherson said, leads to a confused... Continue Reading
Baptist Colleges Can’t Accept Baptist Theologians
It is right and good for Christian institutions to ask their faculty to teach in accordance with central tenets of the Christian faith
It seems odd that young bright scholars trained in Southern Baptist seminaries are no longer welcome in Southern Baptist denominational colleges and universities. Thoughtful conservative professors are under attack from both the “freethinking” academics, who only value a certain type of academic freedom, and the anti-intellectual fundamentalists, who seem to distrust all thinking. It is... Continue Reading
Tucker Carlson Takes It to the Episcopalians
An interview with Tucker Carlson on faith and life
I was baptized an Episcopalian. I grew up in California in basically a very secular family. In 10th grade, I went to boarding school in New England and started dating the daughter of the headmaster, who was an Episcopal priest. She was a very strong Christian, and still is. And I married her. She convinced... Continue Reading
Brett Shaad, West Hollywood Man Diagnosed With Meningitis, Is Brain Dead
West Hollywood resident Brett Shaad is brain dead after being diagnosed with bacterial meningitis.
Officials warned sexually active gay men to beware of the potentially deadly health threat because Shaad’s case was detected in Los Angeles County. Tests were being done to see if the strain of illness is similar to the meningococcal infections that circulated among gay men in New York City and infected 22 people, resulting in... Continue Reading
George Beverly Shea, Long-Time Billy Graham Associate, Dies at 104
Gospel singer teamed with evangelist for more than 60 years
I first met Bev Shea while in Chicago when he was on Moody Radio,” said Billy Graham. “As a young man starting my ministry, I asked Bev if he would join me. He said yes and for over 60 years we had the privilege of ministering together across the country and around the world. Bev... Continue Reading
The Death Of New Calvinism
The idea of holiness is almost a peculiar doctrine for the new Reformed movement
The problem young reformers seem to have is in regards to the fruit of that “Great Exchange” – the fruit of our lives, the good works we are to do, the life of holiness. It’s clear throughout God’s word that we are to love our neighbor, serve the poor, give generously, cloth the naked, etc.... Continue Reading
The Trouble with Cussing Christians
Do Christians have a unique call to avoid strong language?
If profane language has a privileged place in the lexicon of contempt, then Christians have a unique mandate to avoid profanity. It’s not that abstaining from pejorative language outfits us with some holier-than-thou halo. It’s that we are called to live with a servant’s heart, affirming the dignity of every human and the sacredness of... Continue Reading
Leadership as Stewardship, Part Two
The requirement of stewards is that they be found faithful. That’s why leadership is only for the brave.
We are the stewards of truth and teaching. This is the essence of convictional leadership. Leaders are entrusted with truth, with deep beliefs and framing convictions. Those convictions must be taught and retaught, affirmed and reaffirmed, protected and cherished. Otherwise, everything we believe can be lost into confusion, corruption, and worse. As the stewards of... Continue Reading