The Hyper-Addictive, Time-Sucking, Relationship-Busting, Mind-Crushing, Power and Allure of Silly Digital Games
As people, (and especially young adolescent males), do more gaming, and less reading, we are actually becoming more stupid. This is not my assessment, but comes from the “all the news that’s fit to print” New York Times! Monday’s New York Times Magazine (April 8, 2012) cover story is entitled—“The Hyperaddictive, Time-Sucking, Relationship-Busting, Mind-Crushing Power... Continue Reading
Christless Christianity – As Dangerous As Islamic Law
The Islamic world looks at the “Christian” west as self-indulgent, decadent and ripe for the picking. They are right, and their answer is Sharia law – holiness enforced from without. LETTER TO THE EDITOR(In response to Terry Jones anti Sharia protest rally in Dearborn) I am a Michigan native, though I have not lived there... Continue Reading
Be Missional or be……irrelevant?
Traditional churches must wake up and reinvent themselves if they are to remain — or become — relevant, some Christian leaders say. “We have to think the way missionaries think,” said Larry Hovis, executive coordinator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina. Thinking like missionaries is necessary to relevantly preach the gospel in an... Continue Reading
Should schools teach evolution or intelligent design or both? How Property Rights Solve Problems
“Whether restaurant owners should allow smoking is not a public-policy problem. It’s a totally private issue, and the person who should make the decision is the property-rights owner.” Should restaurants allow smoking or not? Should schools teach evolution or intelligent design or both? Should insurance companies cover contraception? Should I be able to take off... Continue Reading
Regulating prayer? – We need a fresh look by the Supreme Court at the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause
The Founding Fathers prayed together and turned to Scriptures in their deliberations. They clearly never intended to make government programs a tool to stop prayer. The drive to push all religious expression out of the public sphere is a hopeless task anyway. Scriptures already are inscribed in plenty of government places—the Washington Monument, the U.S.... Continue Reading
Can We Be Positive about Psychiatric Medications?
Group 2: Those who feel unsure, guilty or ashamed because either they are taking medication or their children are taking medication. I would like to think that we have not compounded your pain, but I suspect that this group has overheard some comments from biblical counseling that have made them feel worse. He is forty-two-years-old... Continue Reading
How to Stay Christian in Seminary: Juggling Multiple Callings
“You have a lifetime of ministry, but only three or four years to become a specialist in God’s Word,” Dr. Strimple told me. “Think of the health of those you’ll be serving—they deserve your best now, which is to be a student.” Dr. Horton wrote this post in relation to a series done over at... Continue Reading
Forsaken for Us and for Our Salvation
Hsu spends the rest of the article answering these questions, but his answers may surprise you: God did not turn his back on his Son, he did not forsake the perfect God-man, he did not pour his wrath out on Jesus Christ as he hung on the cross Two days before Good Friday, InterVarsity Press... Continue Reading
When Does the “Big Tent” Become “Too” Big? A Look at the PCA Prior to General Assembly (Part II)
Unless we have been living under a rock or in a garage, the demise of many ecclesiastical denominations have been clearly portrayed before our very eyes, and yet for whatever reason, there are those who believe such a demise cannot happen to us. In this series of articles (Part I), we are asking a question... Continue Reading
Let Us Not Mock God with Metaphor – John Updike on the Resurrection
The Pulitzer Prize winning writer John Updike is not one who readily comes to mind as someone who held the historic Christian faith. But he did in the sense that confessed the Apostles’ Creed taking the words to mean what they say. He once said, “I call myself a Christian by defining ‘a Christian’ as... Continue Reading