Despite popular opinion, the United States and much of the Western nations were once Christian. That doesn’t mean that the government was Christian only that their values and laws were shaped by Christian ethics. Our national holidays have always been…
The worst of the worst trends throughout history, and especially in the last 100 years, is the systematic subversion of truth. We’ve become obsessed with denying inconvenient truths, especially absolute truth. The cardinal, secular sin: believing there are absolute truths.…
Mocking Christianity is the latest American sport. Everywhere one looks, there are articles espousing the evils of faith, laughing at the irrationality of belief, and belittling Christian thought. To be a serious Christian in modern Western culture is to be…
In the aftermath of the fall of Adam in the Garden of Eden, God made a profound promise. Theologians use a fancy word for it—the protoevangelium. It simply means “first Gospel.” This is the first Messianic prophecy and the first promise…
Have you ever thought about what your life would be like today if Jesus had never been born? When God took upon Himself the form of man through the birth of his only begotten son, He imbued mankind with a dignity…
I am not an alarmist, though I am one who embraces the scripture telling us, “And do not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness; instead, expose them” (Eph. 5:11). Recently I wrote a commentary pulling back the curtain…
Is Keeping Faith the Ultimate Empirical Test? In our time, is faith declining because people demand empirical proof? In the first Chapter of her book on the “History of God,” Karen Armstrong asserts that “many of us no longer have…
With the help of some simple math, statistics and basic honesty this article could write itself. To clarify, guns are not the main topic here. To this writer it is not the second amendment, gun manufacturers or the NRA that…
‘Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation. Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky as you hold firmly…
What was the ‘crime’ of Jesus that got him crucified? Soon another Holy Week will be upon us, beginning with Palm Sunday and culminating with Easter Sunday. It was “the week that changed the world.” The week began in a…
Earlier this month, my wife and I were introduced to the Forty Days for Life campaign by a friend we first met at First Wesleyan Church in Roanoke, Virginia. Although our two families moved on to other churches and towns,…
Days ago our Nashville female mayor resigned in disgrace over involvement in a sexual scandal. Two years of adultery, felony theft and reported provocative images sent via texts brought the liberal, pro-abortion and LGBTQ advocate down. The progressive “almost anything…
Throughout history, Christians have vacillated between two extremes: compromising with the culture or removing themselves from it (isolation). Neither extreme is healthy. But the focus of this article is on “the cares of this world”—being so ingrained in the culture…
“I should be dead. Buried in an unmarked grave in Romania. Obviously, I am not. God had other plans.” So declares a lady who grew up under Communism. Her name is Virginia Prodan. I had not heard of her until…
“Everything is indeed permitted if God does not exist, and man is in consequence forlorn, for he cannot find anything to depend upon either within or outside himself. . .Nor, on the other hand, if God does not exist, are…
