If a man reserves his strongest words only for outsiders, it is not courage at all. Prophets did speak to the nations, but they saved their heaviest blows for the idols closest to home, and they bore the cost. When the fiercest edge cuts elsewhere, it is not prophetic steadfastness but crowd-pleasing performance. Catering to... Continue Reading

Charlie is gone, but his example leaves us no excuse. We’ve seen what happens when a culture builds on sand. We’ve also seen what one man, filled with conviction and grounded in the Gospel, can accomplish in just 13 short years.   History is marked by moments when the world changes overnight. May 25, 2020—the... Continue Reading

The Holy Spirit gives gifts to all believers, and empowers all to serve (1 Corinthians 12:7,11; 1 Peter 4:10-11). No believer is insignificant. No God-given ministry is irrelevant.  No sacrifice for Christ is inconsequential.   Don McClure was a missionary in Eastern Africa from 1928 until 1977, when he was shot and killed by militants... Continue Reading

What can the living do?  One thing the Bible does say is that we are to love our enemies.  This does not mean we must have good feelings toward them, or to plead for a non-capital punishment.  It does mean that we can preach the gospel to them, and pray that God will grant them... Continue Reading

We miss these great men of God. But if the Lord should tarry, he will raise up many more like them. Our job is to remain faithful, just as they were.   Most Christians have just learned about the sudden passing of Voddie Baucham in America. I had seen him speak in Melbourne not all... Continue Reading

This conversation was the key to Lewis’s conversion. It provided a means to unite his mind and heart around the Gospel, to connect what he loved with what he saw as truth.    On September 19, 1931, three friends had a conversation on Addison’s Walk, a tree-lined path on the grounds of Magdalen (pronounced “Maudlin”)... Continue Reading

In one of those videos recorded two months before his death, Charlie was asked what he wanted most to be remembered for when he died. After pausing to think for a moment, he said, “For the courage that my faith (in Christ) gave me.” In the midst of the growing evil of our age, the... Continue Reading

Apologist Frank Turek presented the gospel in doctrinal detail, right down to penal substitutionary atonement. In His righteousness, the Father demanded an innocent and perfect sacrifice for sin, and the Father sent the Son to die for sinners on the cross, the perfect substitute. This same Christ rose from the grave, raised by the Father.... Continue Reading

I doubt the young man who killed Charlie Kirk was staying up late at night wading through Marcuse’s difficult philosophical works. But in many ways, Marcuse has won the culture. He certainly won the universities, which have been practicing “repressive tolerance” for decades.   Over the last few years, I have spent a good bit... Continue Reading

Several facts evince that Charlie Kirk strove to be the sort of friend who speaks difficult, but healing words. To begin, he kept engaging the secularists and progressives with whom he disagreed as one who had sincere hope for them. He certainly had not written off his opponents as beyond repair or “good for nothing.”... Continue Reading