When laws upholding traditional marriage are seen as “privileging” Christian beliefs, the doors are thrown open to anyone who can argue that his faith blesses marriage in nontraditional forms. When Christians warned that activists might use the legal argument in favor of same-sex marriage to justify polygamous marriage or consanguineous marriage (marriage of relatives), they... Continue Reading

In the US, nearly a decade has passed since 9/11, and the media still haven’t seriously examined the paramount ideological and organizational role the hardline Muslim Brotherhood plays in institutional U.S. Islam. In “Why Anders Breivik’s Manifesto Mentions Me,” commentator Rod Dreher, laments that “we journalists should pay more attention to the role of Western... Continue Reading

In this most awkward cultural predicament, evangelicals must be excruciatingly clear that we do not speak about the sinfulness of homosexuality as if we have no sin. As a matter of fact, it is precisely because we have come to know ourselves as sinners and of our need for a savior that we have come... Continue Reading

If we scrap Just War because it contains biblical revelation, then what ethic will we use? Who will decide? London is burning. The international markets are plunging. Congress is leaving. The president is on a bus tour — or on vacation, I am not sure. A war is being fought across the seas so that... Continue Reading

Enough about us, already. Either the church is a witness to the Triune God, revealed consummately in the incarnate Son, clothed in his gospel; or it has no right to exist, whatever its impact, usefulness or relevance on other points. On the horizon of mass movements at least, evangelicalism still has considerable strengths. Nevertheless, we... Continue Reading

If civility, right and wrong, personal responsibility and accountability, and the right to life, liberty, and personal property are not values worthy of being passed on to the next generation, then their opposites will be taught by default. Children don’t “catch” goodness and right behavior as they do a cold. Their natural tendency is to... Continue Reading

Are Christians citizens in America any more disciplined than the average non-Christian citizen? Are we less in debt? Less obese? Less lax in our standards? Less prone to cheat? I wondered recently when reading two articles in the Orlando Sentinel. One was a front page article entitled—“Not a Coincidence? Debt, Obesity Soar.” The other was... Continue Reading

“A human being contains over 100 trillion cells. But we are not 100 trillion cells. I repeat –that is not what we are. We are each truly a singular entity, united in form and function and being. We are the nearly perfect integration of countless components, and as such we comprise a singular new level... Continue Reading

I remember at college I would often hear people talk of this church as being great at doctrine and that church as being great at worship. That should a false dichotomy. One cannot really be good at one and not the other, for they are intimately and inseparably connected. Preaching on 1 Timothy 1:16-17 on... Continue Reading

We are now facing the end of Protestantism. America’s god is dying. Hopefully, that will leave the church in America in a position where it has nothing to lose. And when you have nothing to lose, all you have left is the truth. So I am hopeful that God may yet make the church faithful... Continue Reading