“Did I miss or forget the lessons of three years ago? I’ve already had two strikes; I desperately don’t want a third. I realize that the ultimate answer is something between God and me alone, but maybe you can offer some suggestions that I’ve not yet considered. Here are the options I’ve been mulling over –... Continue Reading

“Steve Chalke says he is an evangelical and that he shares that aim, but that evangelicalism has lost its way and needs to be redefined. He has been saying this for sometime and reinforced it with his latest article on Christian Today. I write this response because I love the Good News and I think that... Continue Reading

“The pluralism which I call a false god is a pluralism which suggests that all religions are equally true or valid. When pluralism moves beyond the protection of everybody’s right both to believe and even to propagate that belief peacefully, and then also argues that none of those beliefs is more true than any other... Continue Reading

“To claim “sin is sin” as a way to minimize the extent of our own wickedness is to lie. Worse still, to claim “sin is sin” as a way to minimize the extent of our own wickedness is to deny God his glory. Jesus’ finished work on the cross is sufficient for our past, present,... Continue Reading

Insist that for legal purposes there’s no such thing as a religiously motivated business, and you will get fewer religiously motivated business owners — and more chain stores that happily cover Plan B but pay significantly lower wages. Pressure religious hospitals to perform abortions or sex-reassignment surgery (or some eugenic breakthrough, down the road), and... Continue Reading

In Europe, Canada, and America there has always been a non-Christian population. That is not the issue. Rather, the issue here, as in previous generations elsewhere, is that American evangelicals were all too comfortable with an Andy Griffith or a Beverly Hillbillies culture and life. As in the generation of Joshua’s old age, Christian love... Continue Reading

The Shunammite woman is a fantastic example of a lady who is an instrument of grace for her family. Her hunger for God leads to the improvement of her husband, son, servant, and village. Have you such a woman in your household? Set her free to serve you and God well.   Elijah was a stellar man of... Continue Reading

So while I do not believe that there will be mistakes on the new heavens and the new earth in the sense that we will have clear minds and bodies that can function without the interferences of sin, I don’t believe everything we do on the first try will be as good as it can... Continue Reading

Whether he knows it or not Dr. Giberson has surfaced an issue upon which we agree: This is a matter of authority. Who will have the final authority? God’s divinely given Word or an ill-defined company of “scholars?” While Giberson is alarmed at the prospect of Christianity losing “many of its scholars” he’s rather sanguine... Continue Reading

The New Testament church looks nothing like an organization built along lines of affinity, unless we are talking about affinity for Christ. Many of the problems with which the Apostles and the epistles are dealing in the New Testament arise precisely because of the diversity of age, class, and ethnicity of the members of the... Continue Reading