Open Letter to Jason Kenney and UCP MLAs
As of this writing, our church is ordered closed and I’m the third pastor in Alberta to be jailed under your government.
Does COVID change the structure of our society? Does it change the relationship between the home and the state or the relationship between the church and the state? Does the state serve the people or do the people serve the state? Does the health care system serve the people or do the people serve the... Continue Reading
Dobbs To Be Decided
We should pray for that event, for it would augur, as Mississippi suggested, that “Roe and Casey should indeed be overruled.”
The court will struggle, and perhaps mightily, to write an opinion that discards “viability” without overturning Roe. The pro-life justices will be unsatisfied with throwing up any facile or arbitrary line, though, in pursuit of a moderate result that somehow divides elective abortions into coherent categories of those which are constitutionally immune to state bans and... Continue Reading
Why is Christianity Declining in America?
Why are fewer Americans turning to God for salvation, hope, and comfort?
It’s time for the Church to take a stand and live radically different lives and exemplify Christ in all things. The Church must remain the beacon of hope to the many people who will eventually realize and experience the emptiness of living apart from God. However, the Church must look different. If it looks the... Continue Reading
Corporate Social Justice Warriors at War with America – Part 1
Woke or “identity politics” has become a severe problem for orthodox Christians.
Behind identity politics is a spirit hostile to traditional Christianity, analyzing people as victims rather than sinners. The Christian doctrine of particular salvation is also at odds with identity politics, since it cuts across identity groups, and involves the exclusion of part of humanity from final salvation (i.e., that part which does not receive God’s... Continue Reading
What is Science?
Science is considered the new savior. Do not ask any questions. Science has spoken, that is it!
In the cases such as Covid-19 and environmental concerns, politics have corrupted the work of scientists by determining what voices can be heard and those that cannot be heard. Any mischaracterization, either explicitly or tacitly, of the true scientific process is harmful to the scientific community and those of us who depend upon proper science... Continue Reading
“Conversion Therapy” Law in Australia Makes Fulfilling the Great Commission Unlawful
The law demonstrates the power of an emotional narrative attacking one type of harm, which is then broadened out to threaten those who would teach and encourage obedience to the truth of God’s Word.
The law clearly targets prayer and other “religious practices.” It then defines “sexual orientation” in s 59(3) in so broad a way that the term covers sexual activity as well as sexual attraction. The result is that encouraging someone not to act on a sexual temptation seems to fall within the definition of the phrase “change or suppression... Continue Reading
And Prayer is Now Hate
Now the militants even want prayer banned!
This is all about preventing people getting the help they are desperately seeking. This is also all about the criminalisation of Christianity. And it is easy to do: simply label all real deal Christians as haters, call the Bible a book of hate speech, and refer to prayer as a hate-filled practice, right up there... Continue Reading
The World’s Hatred is not a Guarantee that You are Following Jesus
People might hate us simply because we are being obnoxious. There are a number of possibilities.
I mention this because too many Christians behave and speak obnoxiously at times, and then when the world responds with hatred, we automatically attribute that hatred to our faithfulness to Christ. I know I’ve been guilty of speaking in an obnoxious way at times. If I do that, I shouldn’t be surprised at a negative... Continue Reading
Church May Ditch ‘Husband’ and ‘Wife’
One hopes the good folk of the Church of Scotland will see that there is much more at stake here than just a change of nomenclature.
Though sex is a wonderful and sacred aspect of marriage, there is much more than a linkage of two bodies. A whole marriage also joins the souls of two people so there is a harmonization of their minds, emotions, and wills. Even more important is the union of spirit in which they share a strong... Continue Reading
In Praise Of Kate Forbes’s Christian Faith
Kate Forbes’ comments are an innocently-worded rebellion against the culture around her, one that has not treated her kindly for her faith.
It is not news that Forbes is a believer. She has spoken before about growing up in India where her parents were missionaries of the Free Church of Scotland, which is like the Church of Scotland but with Christianity. However, this profession of faith and the unapologetic way in which it is delivered is entirely... Continue Reading
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