Can the commission be saved? Yes, but it will take grassroots contact with your two senators, Senator Durbin, and the White House. Tell them religious freedom is too precious and too endangered to be a political bargaining chip. Tell them to reauthorize the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. Last week, the Obama administration issued... Continue Reading

This is an excerpt from Horatius Bonar’s God’s Way of Holiness. Much here that is helpful to men and women of God. Read carefully, to the very end. It’s packed with meat. Paragraphing is mine. (TB, w/thanks to Tim C. by way of Matt B.) “The man who knows that he is risen with Christ,... Continue Reading

One incident is indicative of the tensions developing at Northampton. This is sometimes called the “bad book” incident. Some young men (in their twenties) in the congregation got a hold of a midwifery book that described intimate details of the female anatomy and these young men used this information to taunt young women in the... Continue Reading

I wonder if the Tebow critics would be as mouthy about his faith if Tim’s name was Achmed and the god he praised after a TD was Allah. I doubt it. Why do I hesitate? Well, it’s principally because Christophobic toads are afraid to turn the verbal guns they use to berate Christians on Muslims,... Continue Reading

Why would it be positively beneficial to engage the complex questions raised by the non-literal approaches to Genesis 1 and 2 in relation to the historicity of Adam and Eve? Why would it be positively beneficial for denominations to engage, creating positive statements and formulating clear boundaries? Certainly in part because a failure to work... Continue Reading

The minute we think that anybody owes us grace, a bell should go off in our heads to alert us that we are no longer thinking about grace, because grace, by definition, is something we don’t deserve. It is something we cannot possibly deserve. We have no merit before God, only demerit. If God should... Continue Reading

I’ve seen baptism administered at different points in the service, but it makes sense to me that the seal be preceded by what is being sealed (the promises of the Word of God). Yesterday, I read Rowland Ward’s section in the book Scripture and Worship: Biblical Interpretation and the Directory for Worship (P&R Publishing, 2007)... Continue Reading

The divorce of liberal politics from reality is a seedbed of tyranny for its narrow program can advance only by the manipulation of language and the imposition of an agenda through raw power, be that of an oppressive majority or minority, or through the barrel of a gun. “Religious beliefs and cultural values do not... Continue Reading

Dr… taught us that the stable would not have been a barn like we use today, but most likely a cave or grotto with a gate placed in the opening to keep the animals in. These caves were common in that region, and had a variety of uses – including burial There is a difficult... Continue Reading

I’m beginning to wonder if the alternative marriage debate is not already lost. Christians do not provide a model of marriage in practice that makes a persuasive case against changing the traditional definition. American common law definitions of marriage were historically shaped by the influence of Christianity. In God’s Joust, God’s Justice: Law and Religion... Continue Reading