Posted in General on Dec 11th, 2011
Photo credit: ComfortBetrays.com Pastor Gary Gilley of Southern View Chapel (Springfield, IL) wrote a helpful analysis on elements of the old social gospel movement showing up in today’s Christianity, redefining the mission of the church: One of the important issues which the church has always had to address is that of its role in society. In the Old [...]
Posted in General on Dec 3rd, 2011
“…we teach men not to die with Christ but to live in the strength of their dying manhood. We boast not in our weakness but in our strength. Values which Christ has declared to be false are brought back into evangelical favor and promoted as the very life and substance of the Christian way. How [...]
Posted in General on Sep 9th, 2010
There’s a lesson we cannot miss here in this heavily-covered news story about Terry Jones, who was planning to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of 9/11. What’s interesting is the assumptions of President Obama and General Petraeus; that a violent response would come from Muslims. Abraham Piper asks this very good question regarding [...]
Posted in General on Jul 21st, 2010
“All those expressions of unworthiness which Christian practice puts into the believer’s mouth seem to the outer world like the degraded and insincere grovellings of a sycophant before a tyrant, or at best a façon de parler like the self-depreciation of a Chinese gentleman when he calls himself “this course and illiterate person”. In reality, however, [...]
Posted in General on Jul 20th, 2010
“Christianity is supposedly a limit to personal growth and potential because it constrains our freedom to choose our own beliefs and practices. Immanuel Kant defined an enlightened human being as one who trusts in his or her own power of thinking, rather than in authority or tradition (27). This resistance to authority in moral matters is now [...]
Posted in General on May 18th, 2010
I have Christian friends who refuse to challenge the misconceptions that non-Christians have about Christianity, because they would much rather be thought well of by not rocking the boat than to have anyone look down on them. I’ll be the first to admit that I’m just barely starting to learn what this should look like, [...]
Posted in General on May 16th, 2010
Have you ever wondered how rich or poor you are compared to everyone else? You might be surprised when you see what percentage you fall under using the following website’s simple calculator, based on your annual income figure. I realize the statistics are from a couple years ago, but the point is not lost. www.globalrichlist.com [...]
Posted in General on May 10th, 2010
This year as a tribute to John MacArthur serving 25 years as their president, The Master’s College published a special edition soft-cover book, “Daily Readings from the Life of Christ,” containing a year’s worth of short devotions to think on. When the board of directors wanted to print this book, MacArthur initially resisted, but it’s easy to see that [...]
