It’s only a matter of time before a man who claims to be transgender demands to be placed with women during training, in the showers and in the barracks. The women in the units will have no recourse, especially if their objection to living, changing, bathing and bunking with a man is based on sincerely held religious beliefs.

Editor’s Note: Following in the footsteps of The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis, Jared Wilson writes from the perspective of a senior demon to his apprentice on how to oppose and confound Christians. This imaginative piece offers powerful insight into the subtle ways leaders might be led astray.     Dearest Grubnat, my puppet, my pigsnie, The reports... Continue Reading

My experience tells me that staff teams – in churches, denominations and nonprofits – really do want leaders. They expect the leader to identify a direction, set the pace and provide the resources and encouragement needed to move forward. If the leader fails to do these things, then the situation can become very chaotic.  ... Continue Reading

"Taiwan is only about 3 percent Christian, so it's hard to find good faculty who are also Christian." And the Christian teachers the school does hire don't understand how to live out their faith on campus, Wang said: "The trouble is that among the Christian teachers we are having a hard time encouraging them to exercise themselves as a testimony to Christ among colleagues and among students."

Recently I had the privilege of addressing the Ministry Wives Institute at Puritan reformed Seminary on the Motives and Method of meditation. Here’s the outline:

This is not about David Jang and the specific accusations made against him. I have no information beyond what Christianity Today and The Christian Post has already published. This is about encouraging a venture in Christian journalism to be more Christian and more journalistic

The most infamous bonfire took place in 1497 when thousands of objects like cosmetics, art, books, mirrors, clothing, playing cards, musical instruments and even (heaven forbid) manuscripts of secular songs were collected and publicly burned in Florence, Italy   500 – 1500AD   *Boethius (480 – 525), the Italian poet, philosopher and politician, governed musical thinking... Continue Reading

Even a cursory glance at the literature regarding change reveals that 5 percent of any group will fall into the category of “never adopters.” Jesus does not call us to make everyone happy. He calls us to be faithful to the gospel.

Until that discovery, the oldest complete manuscript we have of the Hebrew Bible dates from over a thousand years after Christ's birth—the Codex Leningrad, about A.D. 1000. That is 1,600 years after the time when the book was first written (sometime in the 7th century B.C.).

In addition to the fact that the best known pastor in the PCA, Dr. Tim Keller, is hosting these BioLogos workshops and is calling for pastors to promote the BioLogos view, the Stated Clerk of the PCA, Dr. L. Roy Taylor is the Chairman of the Board of the NAE. That means that my denomination, the PCA, is not only a member of the NAE, but has someone in the executive leadership of the organization. That makes their decisions, our decisions