“Whether restaurant owners should allow smoking is not a public-policy problem. It’s a totally private issue, and the person who should make the decision is the property-rights owner.” Should restaurants allow smoking or not? Should schools teach evolution or intelligent design or both? Should insurance companies cover contraception? Should I be able to take off... Continue Reading

The Founding Fathers prayed together and turned to Scriptures in their deliberations. They clearly never intended to make government programs a tool to stop prayer. The drive to push all religious expression out of the public sphere is a hopeless task anyway. Scriptures already are inscribed in plenty of government places—the Washington Monument, the U.S.... Continue Reading

Group 2: Those who feel unsure, guilty or ashamed because either they are taking medication or their children are taking medication. I would like to think that we have not compounded your pain, but I suspect that this group has overheard some comments from biblical counseling that have made them feel worse. He is forty-two-years-old... Continue Reading

“You have a lifetime of ministry, but only three or four years to become a specialist in God’s Word,” Dr. Strimple told me. “Think of the health of those you’ll be serving—they deserve your best now, which is to be a student.” Dr. Horton wrote this post in relation to a series done over at... Continue Reading

Hsu spends the rest of the article answering these questions, but his answers may surprise you: God did not turn his back on his Son, he did not forsake the perfect God-man, he did not pour his wrath out on Jesus Christ as he hung on the cross Two days before Good Friday, InterVarsity Press... Continue Reading

Unless we have been living under a rock or in a garage, the demise of many ecclesiastical denominations have been clearly portrayed before our very eyes, and yet for whatever reason, there are those who believe such a demise cannot happen to us. In this series of articles (Part I), we are asking a question... Continue Reading

The Pulitzer Prize winning writer John Updike is not one who readily comes to mind as someone who held the historic Christian faith. But he did in the sense that confessed the Apostles’ Creed taking the words to mean what they say. He once said, “I call myself a Christian by defining ‘a Christian’ as... Continue Reading

I was appalled. A sign in front of a Baptist church in Charlotte openly advocates its opposition to Proposition One in North Carolina. The proposition, which is due to go to the ballot in NC on May 8, 2012, reads: “Marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall... Continue Reading

Just as early missionaries didn’t reject or receive the pagan holiday of Eostre but rather redeemed it for Jesus, we too seek to redeem the cultural practices we observe in the U.S. without letting them overshadow Jesus and his Resurrection, and without making us completely irrelevant or even antagonistic to culture and those weird Christians... Continue Reading

If I am thinking that I am going to have to speak at someone’s funeral and comfort their family then I should be preparing for this service to them by serving them in life. I need to know and care for them now. As this seasoned pastors said so well, these files, these funerals are... Continue Reading