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Hollywood’s “Moral Nihilism”

I am not a cultural crusader in the Moral Majority sense. Christians are strangers and aliens here. American Christians, while valuing religious freedom ought to be more opposed than anyone else to the notion of a state sponsored church. Christians…

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Sunday’s Sermon

Today I departed from our series through Hebrews to deal with Jesus’ words in Matthew 6:19-34. The title of the message is Money, Treasures, and Eternity and can be listened to or downloaded HERE.

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The Moral Idiocy of Hollywood

Much has already been said about the arrest of well known director Roman Polanski. If there was any doubt about the radical chasm that exists between liberal Hollywood and the rest of America, the Polanski ordeal removes it. It is…

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More on Rob Bell’s latest goof

Phil Johnson has weighed in on Rob Bell’s notorious Boston Globe interview with characteristic straighforwardness. One thing is clear: Bell himself is no true evangelical in any historic sense of the term. The Boston Globe’s headline (“Bell aims to restore…

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The Big Questions of Joel and Ethan Coen

An article in Christianity Today reflects on the religious themes in the films of Joel and Ethan Coen. In the cinematic universe of award-winning directors Joel and Ethan Coen, morality matters. Good and evil are usually depicted clearly as such;…

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C.J. Mahaney on “Expository Faithfulness”

From the “God Exposed” Conference: https://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6842549&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 Expository Faithfulness from Sovereign Grace Ministries on Vimeo.

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What Wondrous Love?

I was recently visiting the website of All Souls Church in New York. All Souls is a well known and historic Unitarian Universalist church. One of the many things that saddened me as I perused their webpage was the bulletin…

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Rob Bell Finds Himself in the Weeds Again

This time Rob Bell is redefining “evangelical.” And why not? He has already redefined “Gospel” to suit his preferences. Once you tinker around with the Gospel is anything sacred? Bell was interviewed by Michael Paulson of the Boston Globe’s online…