Where a dictionary definition was the best you could get in my generation, the digital generation is finding graphic, pornographic, high-definition video. These searches had led to sexual awakenings and sexual addictions which in turn led to deep shame and stunted spiritual growth. And all the while these girls were simply doing what had been... Continue Reading

 But, it seems to this outside observer, there are also some troubling problems here.  First, this distinction between “soteriological inerrancy” and “absolute inerrancy” will almost inevitably have the practical effect of setting up a soteriological canon-within-a-canon.  While the intention here may be to prevent people from asking impertinent questions of the biblical text, the result... Continue Reading

“No one is forced to say this. This is about imposing an atheistic view on everyone so there can be no recognition of God,” Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council and a Marine Corps veteran, said in response to the complaint.   The Air Force Academy is considering dropping the phrase “so help me... Continue Reading

Secularists want to understand the world, including its history, without any reference to the supernatural. Begrudgingly they allow the study of religion as yesteryear’s superstitions that led to bondage and war. But there is little motivation to understand the deep convictions of people that changed their way of life or to credit any religious movement... Continue Reading

“If you keep being told to buy Spurgeon, eventually you’ll read Spurgeon,” Dever says. “And if you read Spurgeon, you’ll never be able to believe the charge that all Calvinists are hyper-Calvinists and cannot do evangelism or missions.”   Seven years ago this fall, a young journalist named Collin Hansen wrote a cover story for Christianity... Continue Reading

So, how do we break into the lives of people who are immersed in this postmodern reality?  How do we reach them for the gospel? Do we find ways to show them how the gospel is existentially satisfying? Do we offer therapeutic entertainment to draw them in? Nope.  Instead, we do the unthinkable in our... Continue Reading

Perhaps, but the correlation between income levels and family structures is so strong that I will venture to say that the researchers are not observing the effects of income disparity on childhood learning but more likely the effects of disparate family structures (out-of-wedlock births, single parenting, divorce, etc., all much more prevalent among lower income classes).    ... Continue Reading

In a long, breathtaking paragraph, he asserts “We know” a number of facts we actually don’t know, but only assume if the God hypothesis has been proven false. Which it hasn’t. Theism and atheism are both assumptions that cannot be proved scientifically, because the necessary evidence lies outside science. No matter: To Pinker, empirical knowledge trumps all... Continue Reading

However, I suggest that the absolutely worst thing that could happen is for us to be rejected by God.  We can get through financial hardship, public scandal, and even suffering physically, which leads to eventual escape through death; but there is no remedy, no escape, nothing worse than to be rejected by God.  If we... Continue Reading

It is this “norm,” the norm of God’s character — a norm that cannot be ignored — that can help us understand something of the pervasive effects of evil. Here, then, is the first truth about evil and suffering. Evil and suffering are the consequences of a violation of God’s holy and righteous character. Many... Continue Reading