Is Christmas a Pagan Holiday?
In the first place, there’s no direct biblical commandment to celebrate the birth of Jesus on December 25
Incidentally, Easter can be traced to Ishtar in the ancient world. But the Christian church coming together to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus is hardly something I think would provoke the wrath of God. I wish we had more annual festivals.
My Mouth Won’t Sing What My Soul Doesn’t
It is hard for an uninspired individual to express true, legitimate, and potentially universal experiences of God’s people.
Do you find as a Christian that “heaven above is deeper blue, earth below is sweeter green”, perceptions that “Christless eyes have never seen”? How would you measure the depth of the blue and the sweetness of the green? How would you know that your experience of the blue (deeper) and green (sweeter) is qualitatively different from that of an unbeliever?
The Impending Reality of the Nationwide Legalization of Same-Sex Marriage
Churches, universities, private schools, and individual families will also come under an increasingly merciless attack
The culturally relevant progressive gurus within evangelicalism who desperately want to be popular are going to try to move towards the culture rather than be marginalized, and the church administrations, pastors, and theological professors who follow them around like besotted puppies are going to want to do the same.
“Sermons: Déjà Vu All Over Again”
Maybe some ministers are so busy..that they don’t have time to soak themselves in the languages and wrestle with the meaning of the text
It wasn’t déjà vu. The reason the sermon sounded entirely familiar was because it was. The minister lifted the majority of his sermon from a commentary. He spoke the words as if they were his own. He didn’t introduce the source from which he attained the information nor did he remotely hint that these weren’t his ideas. All of the illustrations and the majority of his points were word-for-word from someone else. Is this dishonest?
How FDR eroded America’s constitutional consensus
While attempt at court-packing failed…the Supreme Court was from then on much more amenable to the New Deal legislation
Today, as we well know, the Court is sharply divided between liberals and conservatives, the appointment of justices subject to politicization like never before. The suspicion and bitterness of the culture wars is in no small part due to conservatives’ feelings of betrayal by the judicial establishment, feelings that go back to 1937 but that run through numerous controversial cases in the following decades, the most divisive of which is perhaps Roe v. Wade.
A Requiem for Friendship
Why boys will not be boys and other consequences of the sexual revolution
On three great bonds of love do all cultures depend: the love between man and woman in marriage; the love between a mother and her child; and the camaraderie among men, a bond that used to be strong enough to move mountains. The first two have suffered greatly; the third has almost ceased to exist.... Continue Reading
Brothers, We Are Not Perfectionists (1)
Understanding the doctrine of sanctification; avoiding errors in this teaching
These categories of “death” with Christ and “new life” indicate a decisive, divinely wrought, break with life before Christ. They signal an inauguration, a beginning, of new things. They do not, however, signal the completion of all things…The principle (beginning) of the end has been introduced and is at work in us, by grace... Continue Reading
Why Aren’t We Calling It the “Royal Fetus”?
Could it be that we reserve the terms “baby” and “child” for unborn babies that are wanted and prefer the term “fetus” for unborn babies that are not?
With all this coverage, I just have one question. Why is it that I have yet to hear or read anyone refer to her unborn child as the “royal fetus”? Oh, I’m sure someone has used the term “fetus,” but it seems to me that the preferred term is “royal baby” or “child,” even though... Continue Reading
Misconceptions about Justification and Sanctification
Five Key Points to help the understanding an important issue
In light of these passages we see that to downplay sanctification is to undercut a large portion of the biblical basis of assurance. I hope these remarks are helpful in clearing up what I think are misconceptions about justification and sanctification.
A year of ‘Christian’ stunts
Any “walk in the shoes” experiment is empty without the call to turn away from sin.
I condemn adultery, and my guess is anyone who’s been personally affected by its damaging effects will hate this particular sin with a special kind of hatred. I think I can land a book deal if I spend a year advocating death for adulterers, blasphemers, and Sabbath-breakers. What do you think?
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