Sin is Sin – Advocating realism about an extreme challenge to God’s order
The other important aspect of the current homosexual agenda is its zeal to establish itself as normal. It’s bad enough when wrongdoers work hard to keep their wrongdoing secret. When instead they flaunt what they do, and pull out all the stops to make it public, then society has problems of a different order. Eric,... Continue Reading
Wales enjoys a wonderful Christian heritage but does it have much of a future?
The people of Wales need to see that as churches we really do believe what the Scriptures say, and not simply pay lip service to them. They also need to see that we can experience God in life changing ways, and not merely muse about this in sermons or sing about it from song sheets... Continue Reading
This Lent I am giving up . . . reticence
But when we are told that this is the time of year when Christians begin to think again about the death and resurrection of Christ, does it not prompt the question of what we are supposed to be doing for the rest of the year? When men speak after their so-called Holy Week of the... Continue Reading
Open Doors and Closed Minds – Gay Rights Activists in Athens (Ohio)
“We can’t decide to de-fund it after we already decided to fund it” suggesting that the principal moral and legal issue concerning the speech was contractual, not constitutional. In other words, cancelling the speech would have offended an isolated contract rather than offending a bedrock constitutional principle There is simply no intolerance like that of... Continue Reading
Putting the “Style” Back into Buffet Style
The goal is to spend time with your guests and not your pots and pans. As a college student once said to his mom when he came home for semester break, “I didn’t come here to see you cook.” Hospitable ministry women sacrifice their time to meet the needs of others. (see Philippians 2:4) They... Continue Reading
Penn State and the failure of men
What kind of man sees or hears a child being raped, or suspects rape, and leaves the child to his fate? The kind of man with low character and a heaping helping of cowardice. What must a child think when a man rapes him or when another man sees him in peril and walks away?... Continue Reading
The need for discriminating preaching and the danger of its absence
I was struck again today by the simple, devastating indictment that 2 Kings 17:33 makes against generic religion: “So they feared the LORD but also served their own gods.” This brief summary describes the mixed multitude of Assyrians who were settled in the fallen nation of Israel. Because of God’s judgment on them and their... Continue Reading
Vanderbilt University’s First Amendment Right to Despise Christianity
Vanderbilt has a history of excluding groups that express messages antithetical to the one it wants to convey… In 1960, the university expelled a black Divinity School student, James Lawson, for his participation in peaceful sit-in protests of lunch-counter segregation in the Nashville community Vanderbilt University has decided that campus student religious groups may not... Continue Reading
It’s Better To Debate Than Downsize – Op-Ed on Cooperative Baptist Fellowship future
Southern Seminary President Albert Mohler predicts the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will split over the issue of homosexuality. Meanwhile, Kentucky Baptist Convention Executive Director Paul Chitwood announced incentives for employees to take early retirement or resign voluntarily as part of a “strategic realignment” of staff. All this raises an interesting question: Is it better to risk... Continue Reading
Grace at the Grocery Store
She has heard about species like me – “breeders” who stay home with small, unintelligent children all day – but she never expected to meet one in real life. I don’t need to feel as though I look like something the cat dragged home, even though I might. “Spiritual struggle” isn’t usually the first thing... Continue Reading