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The Megachurch Century

On Jan. 1st, 1923, the first modern megachurch opened its doors, complete with skits, and toe-tapping tunes. But what have been the effects of this century-long confusion between church and theatre?

Written by Shane Rosenthal | Tuesday, January 24, 2023

“…the dominating controversy within Christendom will be between those who give full weight to the supernatural reality at the heart of all Christian dogma, practice, and thought, and those who try to convert Christianity into a naturalistic religion by whittling away the reality and comprehensiveness of its supernatural basis.”   100 years ago to this... Continue Reading

Overture 29 Points to the Need for Overture 15

How can Overture 29 deal with the Side B problem in the PCA, if our Confession and BCO have not?

Written by George Sayour | Monday, January 23, 2023

What is missing from our Confession therefore isn’t something in Overture 29, but something that neither the Westminster Divines nor the founders of the PCA could have conceived of, namely the adoption of a homosexual self-conception.   We would be good to remember that Former PCA Pastor Greg Johnson objected to Article 7 of the Nashville... Continue Reading

Natural Law and Outhouses – What Do They Have in Common?

Both outhouses and natural law have been useful in their own day, but now they have become nothing but a blight on our landscape.

Written by Larry Ball | Monday, January 23, 2023

What is the fatal flaw among the natural law proponents? The natural law proponents have greatly underestimated the power of sin in the unbeliever apart from some form of the influence of the Christian Faith. The Westminster Confession of Faith VI.2 states that in the Fall man “became dead in sin, and wholly defiled in... Continue Reading

Free Will and “Gay Christianity”

Can man in his fallen condition blame someone else, even his Creator, for his moral failures?

Written by John I. Maynard | Monday, January 23, 2023

How does the biblical doctrine of “Free Will” address the popular notions of “gay Christianity” or what has been called Side B or Revoice theology?  This false teaching claims that one’s sexual orientation (a Freudian concept not a biblical one) is present at birth and is unchangeable. Indeed, this teaching considers it abusive to attempt... Continue Reading

The Chosen and The Word

When I respond to Jesus as portrayed in "The Chosen" am I responding to the true Jesus? Well, maybe.

Written by Hannah Le Cras | Saturday, January 21, 2023

Our response to Jesus should come most dominantly from reading his Word—since that’s the only completely trustworthy place we can go to find the true Jesus. So when I realised the propensity for my heart to be more strongly influenced by “The Chosen” than Scripture, I had to make the decision to leave off watching it. The... Continue Reading

A Memorial of Evil: 50 Years of Legalized Abortion

Sunday, January 22, 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the legalization of abortion nationwide through the 1973 Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision.

Written by Ben Stahl | Saturday, January 21, 2023

Pray to God for deliverance from the wicked. Pray for Godly laws without partiality. Pray for salvation of the wicked and revival of the church. Proclaim His glorious name and work to all ends of the Earth. He has by Himself purged our sins, He has saved to the uttermost those that should be saved, we must call... Continue Reading

How Individuals Enable Tyranny

It is easy to think the roots of tyranny lie outside of ourselves, but perhaps we are looking too far away.

Written by Barry Brownstein | Friday, January 20, 2023

Mill, Havel, and Kundera all point us to a terrible truth: our moral weakness, desire to evade responsibility, and illusion that the majority makes right have led us down the slippery slope of forfeiting our freedom. How do we respond to those working to undermine human rights? The solution is simple, but not without personal costs. Stop... Continue Reading

Conservative No More?

Three Priorities for the Right

Written by Timon Cline | Thursday, January 19, 2023

When you descend from lofty rhetoric about “Traditions” and “Values,” it becomes apparent that a huge number of the actual practices and social institutions which built those virtues have disintegrated, not because of Progressivism or Socialism but because of the new environment and political economy generated by technology.   Two recent articles are well worth... Continue Reading

Church Leaders and Woke

The Woke agenda is now calling the shots in vast areas of our nation’s political, cultural, educational and working life.

Written by John Benton | Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Society has changed radically, even in the last five years. If Christians do not understand where all this is coming from and have not been taught to assess this movement biblically how will they know what to say?    Why we need to open our eyes. The Catholic writer Noelle Mering gives a helpful and... Continue Reading

No Mercy Without Rules

Mercy is incoherent if there are no rules, rules that are rightly believed and applied.

Written by Carl R. Trueman | Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Any Christian leader who manages to separate mercy from rules in such a way as to prioritize the former over the latter would not really be merciful at all. Rather, he would be seriously delinquent in his duty. He might even be merely pandering to the spirit of this age.   Announcing the death of... Continue Reading

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