People conformed to the pattern of this world (see Romans 12:2) can lose focus and even become intolerant of a pastor who models Christ-like obedience and humility in their confused quest for greater “relevance” in the world. Whenever church people begin to measure the “success” of their pastor by making comparison with what passes as... Continue Reading

Parents worked hard to provide for their children. When the parents could no longer work, the children provided for them. That was social security through the centuries. Given the vagaries of life it wasn’t always secure, but in general it worked—and when it did not, extended families, churches, and charitable ministries came alongside widows and... Continue Reading

The other important aspect of the current homosexual agenda is its zeal to establish itself as normal. It’s bad enough when wrongdoers work hard to keep their wrongdoing secret. When instead they flaunt what they do, and pull out all the stops to make it public, then society has problems of a different order. Eric,... Continue Reading

The people of Wales need to see that as churches we really do believe what the Scriptures say, and not simply pay lip service to them. They also need to see that we can experience God in life changing ways, and not merely muse about this in sermons or sing about it from song sheets... Continue Reading

But when we are told that this is the time of year when Christians begin to think again about the death and resurrection of Christ, does it not prompt the question of what we are supposed to be doing for the rest of the year? When men speak after their so-called Holy Week of the... Continue Reading

“We can’t decide to de-fund it after we already decided to fund it” suggesting that the principal moral and legal issue concerning the speech was contractual, not constitutional. In other words, cancelling the speech would have offended an isolated contract rather than offending a bedrock constitutional principle There is simply no intolerance like that of... Continue Reading

The goal is to spend time with your guests and not your pots and pans. As a college student once said to his mom when he came home for semester break, “I didn’t come here to see you cook.” Hospitable ministry women sacrifice their time to meet the needs of others. (see Philippians 2:4) They... Continue Reading

What kind of man sees or hears a child being raped, or suspects rape, and leaves the child to his fate? The kind of man with low character and a heaping helping of cowardice. What must a child think when a man rapes him or when another man sees him in peril and walks away?... Continue Reading

I was struck again today by the simple, devastating indictment that 2 Kings 17:33 makes against generic religion: “So they feared the LORD but also served their own gods.” This brief summary describes the mixed multitude of Assyrians who were settled in the fallen nation of Israel. Because of God’s judgment on them and their... Continue Reading

Vanderbilt has a history of excluding groups that express messages antithetical to the one it wants to convey… In 1960, the university expelled a black Divinity School student, James Lawson, for his participation in peaceful sit-in protests of lunch-counter segregation in the Nashville community Vanderbilt University has decided that campus student religious groups may not... Continue Reading