As I have written many times before, abortion is not just one issue among many other equally important issues. It is a foundational ethical issue. To be “pro-choice” concerning abortion is to betray a fundamental flaw in one’s moral reasoning.…
It seems that Erwin Raphael McManus has added director of commercials to his uber-cool persona. McManus is the pastor (although he doesn’t seem to like that title) of Mosaic, an uber-cool church in Los Angeles. McManus has produced and Mosaic…
Carl Trueman’s article in the latest Nine Marks Journal is well worth the read. We live in strange times. Hardly a year goes by without some conference on the future of the evangelical church somewhere having at least one speaker,…
The Jan/Feb edition of the Nine Marks Journal is not online (pdf). The theme of this edition is “The Mindset of the New Evangelical Liberalism.” This is a timely subject indeed. There are some outstanding articles here and I encourage…
A Theology of John’s Gospel and LettersBy: Andreas J. Kostenberger652p.Zondervan (2009) When I began undertaking a writing project on the seven signs of John’s Gospel my first instinct was to review everything Andreas Kostenberger had written on the subject. In…
Good stuff from Kevin DeYoung that echo my sentiments: I’d like to make a modest proposal for Christians of all theological and political persuasions: don’t use the term “social justice” without explanation. The term is unassailable to some and arouses…
From Westminster Seminary: Change is inevitable. And when the unpredictability of tomorrow consumes our hearts, with insatiable tyranny, it devours any sense of stability, confidence, and peace. A violent and merciless master, change relentlessly erodes the very things to which…
Oliver Stone is at it again. He has already manufactured an historical fantasy regarding the assassination of JFK. He has cast two serial murderers as sympathetic figures. He has villainized George W. Bush. This time he is going to make…
“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…
