Infanticide: The Coming Battle
From Moloch to Philadelphia: The advent of infanticide will mean that our culture has returned to paganism
Campaigners for infanticide will make their case in a gradual way. First, they won’t call it “infanticide” (killing infants) but “post-birth abortion.” The reasons are obvious. The word “infanticide” strikes horror into our hearts. But “post-birth abortion” makes it sound like the termination is simply an extension of abortion, which we are culturally adjusted to.... Continue Reading
The Boston Bombing: Trying to Make Sense of the Senseless
They raised their hand against everyone and everyone's hand was raised against them
When the pictures of these two young brothers were broadcast, my heart sunk. The younger boy, the one still alive, is only a few years older than my son. There he was, casually walking with his hat backwards – with a weapon of mass destruction on his back, intent on mayhem. What hatred has filled... Continue Reading
Thoughts on Same-Sex Marriage, Part III: The Issue Is Civil, Not Religious
The Utah compromise proves that the question of whose unions the state will recognize is not a religious decision; it is a civil decision
I suspect the primary consideration that has motivated such a diversity of states to recognize heterosexual unions between one man and one woman is because this is the ordinary biological way in which new taxpayers (and soldiers, etc.) are created. Governments do not (yet?) have the power to create new humans to pay taxes in... Continue Reading
Foundations Crumble When God Is Ignored
What happens to any edifice when its foundation is destroyed? As Dostoevsky put it, “If there is no God, all things are permissible.”
What we propose to do today is to legitimize that which both the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God clearly reveal to be illegitimate. We propose, as a society, to solemnize, and affirm as acceptable and appropriate, what our Creator has declared, both by natural and special revelation, to be a violation of his... Continue Reading
A Brief Reflection on the Boston Attack
Any technology can be used for evil
There may be an appropriate government/security/regulation type response to this – I won’t claim to speak to that. What I do know is that no amount of technology will stop all sinful acts. We’re too creative for that. More importantly, the sinful heart needs the Gospel. I’ve followed the news of the bomb attack... Continue Reading
Looking Evil in the Eye
God using evil things for our good does not make the evil things less evil.
So in the truest sense, we look evil straight in the eye, call it evil, and say loud and clear that whatever havoc it wields, whatever pain it causes, it is permitted, not free. We tell evil it’s not the ultimate reality in the universe. There is One who is stronger. There is One who... Continue Reading
Preaching immigration reform
Evangelical leaders urge Congress to overhaul immigration system
The pastors who spoke with me said Christians are in a good position to understand grace and what it means to have a debt forgiven. They said they aren’t advocating a free pass—as opponents of immigration reform often charge—but a way for illegal immigrants to be reconciled with the law. Gabriel Salguero, president of the... Continue Reading
Hipsters and Elitists versus Chain Stores
Controlling a neighborhood’s “character” for the sake of maintaining an elitist social vision does nothing but keep people from getting what they actually need.
Have these hipsters and elites ever bothered to asked this one simple question: why are the chains coming to New York City? Here’s a clue: New York is the most expensive state in America to run a business and the city is even worse. Because of the cascade of government regulations and high rents, due... Continue Reading
Transgression: The New Conformism
Modern liberalism: Tolerant of everything except dissenting opinions
The conversation also reminded me of one of the supreme ironies of the contemporary politics of homosexuality. A movement originally built upon the idea of transgression, the breaking of taboos and the crossing of boundaries has become one of the most intolerant and conformist movements ever to emerge within liberal democratic societies. The current debate... Continue Reading
The Gospel and Dr. Gosnell
What Church Must Learn from Media Silence on Abortion Horrors
Abortion and infanticide are two stops on a single road, and the road has a downhill slope. Make no mistake. The current situation in which abortion practitioners are engaging in infanticide is the result of our desensitization by the decades long effort to devalue and destroy the lives of the preborn. Sin and death always... Continue Reading
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