Highest flourishing of culture: The most powerful combination was pre-nuptial chastity coupled with “absolute monogamy”. Rationalist cultures that retained this combination for at least three generations exceeded all other cultures in every area, including literature, art, science, furniture, architecture, engineering, and agriculture. Only three out of the eighty-six cultures studied ever attained this level…. Unwin’s... Continue Reading

Memorial Presbyterian Church, a PCA church in St. Louis, made news in 2018 when it hosted the controversial Revoice conference. The church’s pastor, Greg Johnson, spoke at Revoice in 2019 and is slated to speak again in 2020. According to the event announcement accessed on Thursday, the Q Collective, which is an LGBT group “exploring... Continue Reading

The way to reach pagan people in our day is the same way the apostles did in their day. We go forth in the power of the Holy Spirit, with utmost confidence in the word of God as our authority, and we proclaim the excellencies of Jesus who loves the sinner, who died and rose... Continue Reading

Instead of joining in the mass hysteria, what if believers used the Coronavirus as a viral opportunity to spread the good news of the gospel? The best prevention to the Cornovavirus is not breathing. Not breathing is also its worst outcome. Maybe it’s time to encourage people to explore what God says about eternal life.... Continue Reading

When we understand our depravity, we will stop talking about people gripped with sexual desire for their own gender as obedient souls who love Jesus. Instead of making an apology for them, we invite them to the Christ who cleanses all who are joined to him.     There is some difference between an apologist and... Continue Reading

Compelled by the love of Christ, we will not withhold kindness or friendship from any person or people group, and we will not engage in any sort of “us against them” posturing. This in itself is counter-culture in the modern West, where the norm is to be constantly on the hunt for something to be... Continue Reading

In a free market economy you have Inventors, individual entrepreneurs who try to imagine the specific needs and desires of society and, in light of those needs take risks, create goods, and set prices people can afford. Socialism thinks in terms of a division of wealth; capitalism thinks in terms of creative invention and multiplication... Continue Reading

We live in a world today that is sometimes, unfortunately, complex.  Our first filter on anything we write should be “is this immediately true or false?” but we also have a duty to consider, much as we can, the other messages we are sending by what we choose to say and not to say.  The... Continue Reading

I am confident that at this point in 2020, the vast majority of evangelicals recognize that polyamory is sinful and should be opposed. But will that be the case in 2030 after a decade of a widening Overton Window on polyamory? Do we see the ways in which articles like this subtly encourage readers to... Continue Reading

This section of his message has prompted a good deal of discussion, and it’s fair to ask if these characterizations make sense. The first pressure in his list, “Reformed fundamentalism,” raised the most eyebrows. Perhaps Dr. Chapell will clarify his intent, but in the meantime it’s worth considering the meaning and advisability of such a... Continue Reading