Don’t Waste Your Medical Mistakes
One lab error, and God exposed my pretensions
Then a routine medical lab test indicated, maybe, one of the worst kinds of cancer. The score was so bad it looked like a lab mistake, and retesting would come the next day, but instead of calmness I had clamminess, and instead of saying to God, “Your will be done,” I railed at the prospect... Continue Reading
21st Century Preaching: Cowards Need Not Apply
God’s man encourages where the Word encourages, teaches where it teaches, and rebukes where it rebukes
God save me and all church planters from such drivel. The world needs the word of the living God, unadulterated, uncompromised, and undiluted. It needs men who are more afraid of one day standing before a Holy God to give an account of their lives than they are of standing before men today. The world... Continue Reading
Re-thinking Short Term Mission Trips
Are we asking the right questions about short term missions trips and their benefits?
If I were the Grand Poobah of world missions, mission trips would continue, but I would not pass around sign-up sheets and send as many laypeople as possible; I would carefully and prayerfully approve selected specialists who had skills that could make a difference to the people living overseas. My goal is not to abolish... Continue Reading
Morally Straight? The Transformation of the Boy Scouts of America
Boy Scouts of America to make the issue of homosexual leaders and scouts a local, not national, one
Perhaps the most sobering aspect of this sad development is the fact that speaking of sexuality in moral terms is already so culturally awkward. Less than a decade ago the Boy Scouts of America declared that homosexual conduct “is inconsistent with the obligations in the Scout Oath and Scout Law to be morally straight and... Continue Reading
A Father Celebrates Killing His Child
"I cannot imagine arguing against a woman’s right to control her body and thus her life"
Touré is not disputing the humanity of the unborn. He concedes that seeing the second trimester sonogram of his son made him reconsider his view of when life begins. At the end of the day, however, human life in the womb is morally irrelevant to him. The only morally relevant issue is a woman’s absolute... Continue Reading
Prayers for the Future
How should believers respond as First Amendment liberties come under assault?
I think your assessment of the environment surrounding the First Amendment is correct. I have two young children (2 years and 7 months) and the possibility for more in the future, who will grow up in a vastly different America than I did. Part of me is saddened when I consider this likely reality. The... Continue Reading
Misunderstanding Israel and America
A Critique of The Harbinger and dispensational theology
A couple of weeks ago, I was listening to American Family Radio’s Bryan Fischer as he said, “Only two nations in history have ever had a direct covenant relationship with God, Israel and America.” He claimed that the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were America’s covenant documents with God. He was making this claim... Continue Reading
Don’t Let the Screen Strangle Your Soul: Part 1
The danger of becoming dependent on technology
Much has been written and will be written about our insatiable appetite for the screen. I’ll leave it to others to decide if Google makes us stupid and whether young people are more or less relational than ever before. Let me simply suggest three ways in which the digital revolution, for all its benefits, is... Continue Reading
A War on the Military?
Just How Much More Disruption Can the Radical Left Cause our Military While We are at War?
Who are we kidding? We can withdraw from one front, but in this new century global war waged by radical Islamic terrorists, the “front” is always moving. Western Africa now looms as a new battle front. We are at war and to deny it is naive, but to make sweeping changes in military operations plus... Continue Reading
13 Reasons Christians Don’t Have to Be Afraid
Several promises in the Bible that we can remember when the temptation of fear assaults us
Fear is like the monster under my kids’ beds — its power is fueled not by what’s really there, but by what might be, what we imagine could be. Fear is a hollow darkness in the future that reaches back through time to rob our joy now by belittling the sovereign goodness of God. But... Continue Reading
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