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A Review and Rebuttal: ‘Heavy Burdens, Seven Ways LGBTQ Christians Experience Harm in the Church’

In the guise of grace, Rivera calls on the church to stop being Christian and to choose interpretations of Holy Scripture which accommodate sexual passions.

Written by David H. Linden | Monday, November 28, 2022

As a Side B lesbian, Rivera assists those who choose to become Side A, providing a stream of justifications for doing so. Her teaching is conducive to the LGBTQ way of life, part of the broad way: “… the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction” (Matthew 7:13). The narrow... Continue Reading

Identifying Devotional Gems in Unexpected Places

Literary expert Leland Ryken introduces 50 of the best devotionals from church history, each with an analysis and a corresponding scripture passage to help readers understand and appreciate the literary beauty and spiritual truths they contain.

Written by Leland Ryken | Saturday, November 26, 2022

The process of compiling an anthology of devotional classics was for me a continuous process of tracking down bits and pieces that were part of my literary and religious life that I had never pursued in detail. I will feel rewarded if my readers come to love the entries in my anthology as I have... Continue Reading

Review: ‘Powerful Leaders?: When Church Leadership Goes Wrong and How to Prevent It’

Leaders are servants fundamentally, under-shepherds to bring the flock to feed on God.

Written by Bill Nikides | Saturday, November 26, 2022

The heart of the book describes the “slippery slope” from the accountability, transparency, plurality and embodiment that characterizes legitimate leadership to the murky world of dysfunctional, illegitimate leadership. Honeysett describes the slide as the replacement of transparency with secrecy and concealment, the cutting off of any meaningful collegiality, leading to leadership isolation, power imbalances from... Continue Reading

Girolamo Zanchi on Sin in the Life of the Believer

In his great work Speculum Christianum or The Christian Survey of Conscience, Girolamo Zanchi addressed at length the Reformed view of Romans 7 as the regenerate man’s struggle against sin, a view he assures was held by all the learned divines.

Written by Chris Gordon | Thursday, November 24, 2022

Zanchi’s comments on the violent uprisings of fallen desire should be a great help to Christians who find themselves perplexed over how easily they can stumble into sin. How many believers have been completely overcome with guilt after giving in to sin, and upon becoming overwhelmed by their sin and the shame that follows, that... Continue Reading

The Cancel Cult

Book Review: Andrew Doyle offers a passionate and erudite exposé of the modern-day social-justice movement.

Written by Noel Yaxley | Wednesday, November 23, 2022

The New Puritans is a passionate and erudite exposé of the modern-day social-justice movement. With clarity and precision, Doyle exposes its countless flaws and hypocrisies. His book is an essential guide for anyone looking to understand why the culture war has grown so hot.   The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the... Continue Reading

When the Therapeutic Replaces Sin

Book Review—"When Narcissicism Comes to Church: Healing Your Community from Emotional and Spiritual Abuse," by Chuck Degroat

Written by Samuel James | Tuesday, November 22, 2022

This book makes a monumental decision: a decision to put the Bible’s moral language to the side, to call a disorder what the Bible calls sin, to call self-actualization what the Bible calls repentance. This book’s aversion to biblical categories does not empower readers to confront spiritually abusive systems. It instead makes those systems harder... Continue Reading

Chapter 4: “The Humanist Religion”

Versed in the Communist Manifesto (1848) and the two Humanist Manifestos (1933 and 1973), Schaeffer picks up the gauntlet in his Christian Manifesto, responding particularly in chapter four to these humanist documents.

Written by Mark Coppenger | Saturday, November 19, 2022

He blames the media for much of the damage insofar as they “see through the spectacles of a finally relativistic set of ethical personal social standards” (56). He calls out public television for refusing to broadcast Whatever Happened to the Human Race? while using tax money to deploy the Hard Choices series, which platformed a materialistic view of the... Continue Reading

The Best Single-Volume Reformed Systematic Theology You’ve Never Heard Of

Book Review: As a master teacher, Bavinck writes clearly, directly, profoundly, pastorally, and yet also artfully to the individual reader.

Written by Brian Mattson | Thursday, November 17, 2022

This devotional aspect is perhaps uncommon in systematic theologies, but it is characteristic of The Wonderful Works of God. Christian families should have some reference work or guide to help make sense of the Bible and theology and to consult when confronted by confusing or difficult matters. Many books provide answers that satisfy the mind; better still is... Continue Reading

Book Review of “Why Borders Matter: Why Humanity Must Relearn the Art of Drawing Boundaries”

We learn not only how to understand and resist the spirit of the age, but also how to extend the winsome alternative in Biblical Christianity to a confused world.

Written by Jeffrey T. Riddle | Saturday, November 12, 2022

At one point he makes reference to the inherent binary convictions of traditional Christianity when he writes, “Christianity make a clear distinction between those who follow Christ and those who fail to believe” (134). Key to his argument is the idea that even those who reject traditional borders, paradoxically invent new ones to replace them.... Continue Reading

He Gets Us? But Who Is He?

A trendy new "Jesus marketing" campaign seeks to rebrand a familiar figure; HeGetsUs is a movement to reintroduce people to the Jesus of the Bible and his confounding love and forgiveness.

Written by Ryan Biese | Friday, November 4, 2022

The HeGetsUs campaign aims not to get people to “go to church,” but rather invite people to “consider the story of a man who created a radical love movement that continues to impact the world thousands of years later”….While the goals of HeGetsUs may be to make Jesus palatable to sophisticated urbanite worldings frustrated with... Continue Reading

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