Where Are The Men?
Where the men are in the families, in the churches, and in the nation?
The reason why humanity is in chaos and death today goes all the way back to Genesis when Adam failed to play the man. God said to him, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife… in pain you shall eat of [the ground] all the days of your life” (Gen. 3:17). Adam... Continue Reading
My Father Killed My Mother
In a matter of seconds, God gave me a new understanding of what it meant to honor my father
“In the aftermath, my sisters and I were adopted by my maternal grandparents, and in the face of that great tragedy, we did what any family would do—we circled the wagons, we bonded over our grief. A significant portion of that bonding came through our shared hatred of not just the evil things my dad... Continue Reading
J. Budziszewski: A Time To Talk Back
J. Budziszewski is a government professor and a nationally known Christian social conservative
“Among his recent books: How to Stay Christian in College, On the Meaning of Sex, Commentary on Thomas Aquinas’s Treatise on Law. I interviewed Budziszewski in Austin about his critique of the Darwinist theory that underlies many academic ideologies.” J. Budziszewski is a government professor—with an emphasis in political philosophy and ethics—at The University... Continue Reading
Voddie Baucham’s Big Move to Africa
The pastor, father, and speaker talks about his work at home and explains his move to Zambia with his wife and seven of their children
What’s the core of Reformed theology for you? For me, the three Cs: Calvinistic, covenantal, and confessional. Ironically, the earliest Baptist confessions are Reformed Baptist confessions. Our church is a Second London Baptist Confession church. … Our roots and our heritage are Reformed. We are the radical Reformers. We reformed on baptism when our Presbyterian brothers... Continue Reading
After Indictment, Dennis Hastert Steps Down From Wheaton College’s Hastert Center Board
The scandal brewing around Dennis Hastert this week spread into his evangelical faith community with news that he stepped down from a board position at Wheaton College
Former House speaker Dennis Hastert resigned from the school’s board of advisers of its J. Dennis Hastert Center for Economics, Government, and Public Policy, a $10 million project housed in the college’s politics, international relations, business and economics departments. Hastert, 73, was indicted Thursday [May 28] by a federal grand jury on charges that he... Continue Reading
Marine Court-Martialed For Refusing To Remove Bible Verse
A United States Marine was convicted at a court-martial for refusing to remove a Bible verse on her computer
“This is a very scary time when you are not allowed to have a very small printed Bible verse in your own personal workspace because it might offend other Marines,” Sasser told me. “Our Marines are trained to deal with some of the most hostile people on the planet. I don’t think they are afraid... Continue Reading
Collateral Damage? 63 Churches Hit In Syrian Civil War
Sixty-three churches have been damaged or destroyed so far during four years of civil war in Syria, says the Syrian Network for Human Rights
“Christians and their places of worship have suffered as much as the rest of the Syrian people. Scud missiles, chemical weapons or barrel bombs do not differentiate between Christians and non-Christians.” However, both extremist groups and government and opposition forces are accused of committing war crimes through “deliberate targeting” of churches, and not just “random”... Continue Reading
Jack Templeton Dies At Age 75
The former pediatric surgeon and head of the John Templeton Foundation sought to glorify his heavenly Father while honoring his earthly one
Templeton was able to direct giving up to a point. As an elder in the Presbyterian Church in America, he subscribed to the Westminster Confession of Faith from 1646, but as foundation head he was faithful to the eclectic and quasi-pantheistic wishes of his father, who died in 2008 at age 95 and once wrote... Continue Reading
In Faith Communities Like the Duggars, Abuse Victims are Encouraged to be Filled with Grace
It’s not that simple.
Easy “forgivism” may gloss over the terrible situation in the short term, but it reinforces to everyone that the egregious, soul-siphoning sin committed against the victim was trivial, easy to get over. It forgets Jesus’ strong admonition that “whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for... Continue Reading
Heads LGBTs Win, Tails Christians Lose
You must not only bake the cake, or arrange the flowers, or make the ring, you must hold the correct opinion when you do it.
This Christian jeweler agreed to custom-make engagement rings for a lesbian couple, knowing that they were a couple, and treated them politely. But when they found out what he really believed about same-sex marriage, even though the man gave them polite service, and agreed to sell them what they asked for, the lesbian couple balked,... Continue Reading
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