“Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.” James 1:27 (ESV) It was third grade and I was watching…
Modern evangelicals are an experiential lot. We promise a “personal relationship with God” but don’t do a very good job of explaining exactly what that means. In fact almost everything in the neo-evangelical cafeteria of spirituality seems to be tagged…
I recently heard that Pilgrim Radio will be broadcasting Christ the Center on FM radio. Pilgrim Radio airs 24 hours a day in 5 States. They broadcast The Al Mohler Program, as well as R.C. Sproul, John Piper, and Alistair Begg. Christ the Center is the weekly podcast of the Reformed…
HT: Justin Taylor
some basic rule’s of grammar to which we would all Do well to adhere, to: 26 Golden Rules for Writing Well 1.Don’t abbrev. 2.Check to see if you any words out. 3.Be carefully to use adjectives and adverbs correct. 4.About…
We live in a day of doctrinal compromise. Voices within evangelicalism tell us not to “split hairs” over doctrine. I recently read a brief article by a seminary president which asserts that Christians are dividing far too often over matters…
Well, it’s pretty late in coming but the former president offered an apology of sorts to the Jewish community for statements he has made. Of course, what Mr. Carter does not seem to recognize is the genuine harm many of…
From an article by Uwe Siemon–Netto that ran originally in First Things: Twenty–five years ago when there was still a Communist East Germany, I interviewed several boys from Leipzig’s Thomanerchor, the choir once led by Johann Sebastian Bach. Many of…
“Evangelical Christianity…is now tragically below the New Testament standard. Worldliness is now an accepted part of our way of life. Our religious mood is social rather than spiritual. We have lost the art of worship. We are not producing saints.…
After a brief hiatus — okay, it has been eight months — I return to Dr. Ridding’s litany for pastors: “From weariness in continuing struggles, from despondency in failure and disappointment, from over-burdened sense of unworthiness, from morbid fancies of…
