While driving to Charlotte, North Carolina, yesterday, I heard John MacArthur encourage Christians to vote. It wasn’t that long ago that he left the impression in his book Why Government Can’t Save You that Christians should resist putting too much emphasis on politics. I was glad to hear that he has taken a more active [...]
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One of the arguments made by yesterday’s Tar-Baby emailer that while the words separation of church and state do not appear in the Constitution the concept clearly does.
Full Story » Wonderful Wednesdays? Please. That’s the type of stuff that’s guaranteed to keep any hairy, red-blooded, NASCAR loving man from ever darkening the door of a church.
Full Story » Jerry Falwell has made a number of transitions in his fruitful ministry. Few people had heard of Jerry Falwell prior to 1979. His Thomas Road Baptist Church was his mission in life. In a sermon delivered in 1965, entitled “Ministers and Marchers,” Falwell said:
Full Story » It’s not only the left that sounds the alarm when Christians “jeopardize the separation of church and state” by engaging in political action.
Full Story » Many Christians believe the kingdom can only be identified within the confines of the church, and kingdom activity cannot manifest itself outside the church. In their view the kingdom is the church and nothing but the church.
Full Story » Truth is the very heart of the Christian faith. Jesus told his first-century hearers: “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock” (Matt. 7:24).
Full Story » In recent weeks we have seen how the “New Atheists” are making postmodernism a thing of the academic past. But we also briefly discussed last week the “conversations” that are going on among a growing number of “postmodern” Christians who refer to themselves as the “Emerging Church.”
Full Story » Over the last several weeks, we have taken a cursory look at how the leading “new atheists” are doing their very best to demolish the underpinnings of postmodernism. By publicly demonizing religion, the “new atheists” are drawing a philosophical line in the sand on the beachhead of academic debate.
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