By the time most of you read this editorial, the Workers World Party will have celebrated on May 5th the birthday of Karl Marx at locations across the country. Marx was the father of socialism and communism. Ezekiel chapter 28…
Paying the Price: The Explosive Nature of Abiding Sometimes we misinterpret Jesus’ familiar call for us to abide in Him found in the 15th chapter of the Gospel according to John. Abiding seems like a tranquil, passive, resting sort of…
The Bible is in the news again. Last week, the editors of GQ listed the Bible in their article “21 Books You Don’t Have to Read,” recognizing the Good Book has “some good parts,” but concluding “overall it is certainly…
After a recent column on “fake news,” someone sent me an email accusing me of propagating fake news by saying the Bible had anything to do with the founding of America. The email stated the common charge that the Constitution…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
In today’s world, churches and Christians seek to be relevant to people from various walks of life in the pursuit of winning them over to the Lord. Yet, in this noble pursuit, some have abandoned the pursuit of holiness, which…
“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…
