“Will I Be Fully Accepted At Your Church As A Gay Man?”
A response to the question: “Would I be fully accepted with no judgment and fully welcome and able to serve at” your church?
If by “I am a gay man” you mean that you struggle with same-sex attraction, recognizing any sexual activity outside of a covenant marriage between a man and a woman is sinful and that you desire Christian discipleship to walk in line with the Gospel as you struggle with this temptation, then we would rejoice... Continue Reading
Nelson Rockefeller As Social Gospel Christian
The new biography of Nelson Rockefeller presents enough tidbits to imply that he was a Social Gospel Christian, a product of targeted philanthropy and devotion to liberal Protestantism.
Supposedly former Governor Tom Dewey once told Rockefeller, “I like you but I can’t afford you.” Across nearly sixteen years Rockefeller taxed, borrowed and spent, building highways, hospitals, schools, museums and an ever more expansive social welfare state. He had every confidence that few social problems could not be solved with enough funding and the... Continue Reading
Missionary, You Suffer For A Reason
Missionaries are often unprepared to address the intensity of their suffering and this may threaten their ministry.
God created us, breathed life into us, and purposed us for his glory. The grace and mercy he gives warrants our love and obedience. Jesus Christ endured an inconceivable persecution and death to pay for our sins. In response, we should boldly proclaim his greatness to all nations. Most Christian missionaries I know suffer... Continue Reading
Transgenderism, Progressivism, and God’s Law
(Bruce Jenner) can mutilate and poison himself all he likes, but he will remain a man
“Every single person in the world could fully support and celebrate a 65-year-old man making himself a eunuch and God would still be God and the results will still be horrible.” Bruce Jenner is not a woman. He is a man. Every single chromosome in his body records this fact. He can mutilate and poison... Continue Reading
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
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