I have noticed that the term “race” does not appear in the Bible.  It is a relatively new term in the history of mankind.  The terms “race” and “ethnicity” have replaced the biblical word “nation.”  The word nation refers, first of all, to a people who have a common biological ancestor.    I have noticed... Continue Reading

Basil also said that “the idea of the image would be lost were it not to preserve throughout the plain and invariable likeness”.  By that standard any image purporting to show Christ cannot be deemed his image, since we cannot know it preserves “plain and invariable likeness” to him—and since there are as many purported... Continue Reading

If we are able to be humble and evaluate ourselves honestly when we fail, if we will listen to others when they come with corrections and critiques, and if we will be willing to admit we were wrong, then we put ourselves in a position where we can grow from failure.   I was listening... Continue Reading

The revised Directory gives the PCA an opportunity to say that the worship of our Triune God is not an afterthought.…Worship is the highest privilege of the Christian and the church’s glad response to the Father, through the Son, by the Spirit. For that reason, we should receive this proposal with gratitude, read it carefully,... Continue Reading

Christians must live and speak as those who believe God exists, that God is more than a word and that consequently there is a moral objectivity to the reality in which we live. Without the clarity of the Christian voice, things tend to fall apart under the weight of relativism where man is the measure... Continue Reading

Every pastor who has been in ministry for any length of time knows that ministry is messy. Churches are full of broken people making halting progress. Denominations struggle to overcome inertia, to avoid mission drift, to resist cynicism and the pull toward disengagement. But God is at work in the mess.   Every summer, when... Continue Reading

God preserved the name David tried to bury. Every Memorial Day, I think about that. Uriah has now been remembered for nearly three thousand years, not because kings honored him properly. His own king had him killed. But God refused to let him disappear. And Uriah was not even an Israelite by birth. He was... Continue Reading

Therefore, here comes Rev. Larry E. Ball, a resident of Sullivan County, Tennessee (for 45 years), requesting that the Commission of Sullivan County, Tennessee, prohibit the erection of any Islamic mosques within the geographical boundaries of this County.   To the Honorable Members of the Sullivan County Commission Blountville, Tennessee A Public Proposed Resolution to... Continue Reading

The insidious Woke Revolution that culminated in the “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (DEI) agenda insinuated itself into every nook and cranny of the university in the late 2010s and early 2020s. Wokeness was…a pseudo-religious movement, and everyone had to bend the knee.   Education wars are now all around us, with woke and leftist ideology... Continue Reading

Our culture is being destroyed by being dumbed down, and by allowing the vital arts of reading, thinking, and reasoning to be dispensed with.…It is thinking Christians who will help save the day, not dumbed-down and illiterate ones.     I write a lot. And a lot of folks copy, share, reprint and republish what... Continue Reading