Guns, Abortion, and Tyrants
You want to rid the country of guns? Then rid the country of abortion
For the record, tyranny—arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power, despotic abuse of authority—cloaked in socialist sentiment is still tyranny. The Obama administration is considering 19 “executive actions” against our right to keep and bear arms. So-called assault weapons bans, universal background checks, and ammunition restrictions move us that much closer to a kingly denial of... Continue Reading
Why Are So Many French Liberals Against Same-Sex Marriage?
They are not against gays and lesbians but for the rights of children to have a father and mother.
The issue here is not a matter of religious morality. Christian teaching, like that of other major religions, is as condemning of heterosexual immorality (i.e., sex outside of marriage, unnecessary divorce) as it is of homosexuality. But the French remind us that this is not really what the political debate should be about. It should... Continue Reading
Pastoral Integrity and the Limits of Confidentiality
Confidentiality is important, but it is not ultimate
Because I refuse to allow anyone to bind my conscience on their own terms, I have occasionally stopped a person in mid-sentence when I hear the words, “You cannot tell anyone what I am about to tell you.” My reasoning goes like this: if you cannot trust my judgment regarding what to do with the... Continue Reading
Do Truck Drivers Matter to God?
Is ministry a "higher call"?
Whenever I speak, I hang around afterward and talk with individual audience members about their specific questions and concerns. As a result, I’ve had countless conversations with people looking for an answer to the question of significance. They sit in those pews and wonder, Did I miss my calling in life? Is my life’s work... Continue Reading
Freedom Is Not Free
The price tag for the Sixties cultural revolution is now becoming obvious and it is costly
“Free sex,” taught in public high schools at government expense, and modeled by Hollywood is not free for the tax-payer. The average citizen has to underwrite other people’s fantasies. This liberated life-style, outside the bonds of marriage, practiced by welfare queens and absentee fathers, now costs the tax-payer $330 billion per year in welfare payments.... Continue Reading
Do You Now or Have You Ever Believed that Homosexuality Is a Sin?
Christians everywhere, in pulpit or pew, in the office cubicle or the backyard party, need to be ready for “the question”
In light of such a knee-jerk tendency to be alarmed over any expression against homosexuality, we Christians should be especially careful in how we phrase our answer to their incessant question. We will too readily be misunderstood. Christians need to stand against homosexuality, but not as a goal in itself. We need to stand for... Continue Reading
Kaepernicking Replaces Tebowing
A touchdown celebration—flexing his right arm and kissing his biceps—is called “Kaepernicking”
I am saying that an anti-distraction bias by itself doesn’t explain Tebow’s exile: It will be a great mystery if none of the 32 NFL teams wants him. I’m also saying that worship of Man rather than God is now our national religion: Kissing your own biceps is more acceptable than bowing before our Creator. ... Continue Reading
John Brown the Calvinist
Calvinism rightly understood is a threat to the autonomy of modern man in modern America
In modern America, Calvinism is associated with fanaticism and hate. Calvinists are a deluded sort! Modern America is not threatened by evangelicalism. Modern America is not threatened by fundamentalism. However, Calvinism is a different story. In my mind, Calvinism rightly applied, is the only real threat to the fulcrum of a godless America. Calvinism which... Continue Reading
Against the Objectification of Females
It is not possible to see people as humans created in God’s image and as objects at the same time
The differences between the woman in the revealing swimwear, drunken coeds on Girls Gone Wild, a prostitute, a stripper or a sexually exploited child are only in the extremes and opportunities. The mindset is the same. Objects have no opinion, no right of refusal, no humanity, no femininity. Like a tire or a piece of... Continue Reading
What Chris Rock Can Teach Us About Marriage
The difference between a wife and a girlfriend
Even on its own terms, cohabitation doesn’t “prepare” couples for marriage. Without the security of permanence and fidelity a “relationship” is wholly different from a marriage. As a matter of fact, “dating” isn’t a preparation for marriage either, beyond the level of discovering whether this couple have a reason not to marry. Most Christians don’t look to Chris... Continue Reading
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