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A Response to Rod Dreher’s “Sex After Christianity”
A Response to Rod Dreher’s “Sex After Christianity: Gay marriage is not just a social revolution but a cosmological one.” We live in a time of open opposition to the Christian faith in once “Christian America.” Millennial Christians, raised in…
A Response to Rod Dreher’s “Sex After Christianity”
A Response to Rod Dreher’s “Sex After Christianity: Gay marriage is not just a social revolution but a cosmological one.” We live in a time of open opposition to the Christian faith in once “Christian America.” Millennial Christians, raised in…
Tell Us How You Really Feel: Comments About the Church Plant Initiative
What do you think about our church plant initiative in Richmond, Virginia? From the outside looking in, you can only say so much. The video we created to spread the word and the website we have, which is dedicated to share…
White Teeth Teens
I’m telling you, one of my favorite singers on my daughter’s playlist is Lorde. While I certainly don’t endorse all of her values, some of the messages that she sings about are penetrating not only the teen culture, but to…
The most important book of the year?
I don’t know Kevin DeYoung. As far as I know I don’t owe him any money. I’m not writing a book so I’m not expecting him to give me a cover blurb. I have never received a free copy of…
Concern for the prodigal son
Doing a little study this afternoon, I came across this illuminating section from B. B. Warfield on the parable of the prodigal son, and the danger of make it a definitive statement of the gospel. Given the parable’s present popularity…
The Trouble with Andy’s Sermon
Andy Stanley has a problem with religion. The pastor of North Point Community Church in Atlanta (one the nation’s largest) has been preaching against religion. Over at Juicy Ecumenism, Alexander Griswold offers some helpful responses to a recent sermon by Stanley…
Your Wife As Your First Ministry: A Good Thing or Bad?
On numerous occasions, I have heard pastors and parishioners remark, “Your wife is your first ministry.” The aforementioned statement can easily be expanded to, “Your family is your first ministry.” However, for the purposes of this brief post, I will…
A Faith That Fights
Christians are disciples, and therefore bydefinition, we are disciplined. Hebrews 12:11, “For the moment all disciplineseems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit ofrighteousness to those who have been trained by it,” is couched in anexhortation…