Anyone who celebrates this “compromise” as a victory is hiding behind an accounting trick. That accounting trick cannot hide the great moral tragedy at the heart of the President’s policy — a policy that leaves religious liberty in peril and Planned Parenthood smiling. President Obama walked into the White House Press Room on Friday and... Continue Reading

His wise counsel. “Keep the music in its place. It is handmaiden, a servant, and it must not be allowed to dominate or to control in any sense.” This is guidance more needed today than ever before. The new 40th anniversary edition of Preaching and Preachers contains essays from several contemporary preachers, including a piece... Continue Reading

The ones who truly cause destructive division and disharmony, the ungodly dissensions and hindrances about which Paul speaks here, are those who promote and practice falsehood and unrighteousness. No institution or movement can rightly claim unity in Christ if they are not unified in and by His Word. “Now I urge you, brethren, keep your... Continue Reading

A 2010 study conducted by James C. Turner, executive director of Health Services at the University of Virginia, shows suicide to be the second most common cause of death among 18- to 24-year-old college students A little more than a year ago, Devon Minor disappeared from the campus of Geneva College, in Beaver Falls, Penn.... Continue Reading

You want to do religion? Get thee to a nunnery. You want shelter from the power of the state? Get out of your soup kitchen and back to your pews. Outside, Leviathan rules. At the National Prayer Breakfast last week, seeking theological underpinning for his drive to raise taxes on the rich, President Obama invoked... Continue Reading

“…the scale and severity of Islamophobia pales in comparison with the bloody Christophobia currently coursing through Muslim-majority nations from one end of the globe to the other.” Then the author bluntly says that “The conspiracy of silence surrounding this violent expression of religious intolerance has to stop.” The grim news has been unrelenting. Every week... Continue Reading

The two forewords to The Escondido Theology are written by noted theonomists. One vigorous endorsement of The Escondido Theology comes from a theonomist and Federal Visionist who denies the imputation of Christ’s righteousness in justification. It is this neonomian paradigm that conflicts with the Reformed confession. I’ve been reluctant to respond to Professor Frame’s The... Continue Reading

Nevertheless, the example of the biblical writers tells us that we have the obligation to use every literary and rhetorical weapon in our arsenal to preserve the health of the gospel and the church. For us to refuse to ridicule the ridiculous is to be guilty of false modesty, and probably faithlessness. “You are already... Continue Reading

Although Southern Baptists cannot follow the full system of Arminian theology, perhaps the majority of Southern Baptists today understand biblical election as defined by James Arminius. (Florida Baptist Editor’s note: This article is the second in a series of 12 columns that will be published in 2012 addressing the always controversial theological issues surrounding how... Continue Reading

If we have learned anything from two millennia of church history and from 20th century history, we have learned that when any government or any organization or any power structure seeks to stop Christianity it actually ends up promoting a vibrant faith in Christ “All other religions flourish when Christianity’s beacon of light shines brightly.”... Continue Reading