SBC Professor Fired For Questioning Non-Traditional Views on Hell and Eternal Punishment – Baptist News Global
A Baptist university in Missouri has invited independent review of teaching in its religion department after firing a professor who accused colleagues of doubting whether sinners who die without Christ must suffer eternally in hell.Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Missouri, announced Dec. 22 the commissioning of an external peer assessment committee to lead a university-wide […]
Student vaping epidemic has California schools frantically mobilizing – Los Angeles Times
Students at Crescenta Valley High School have created an anti-vaping app. At nearby Rosemont Middle School, 55 students have joined an anti-vaping club. Santa Monica schools have booked 20 anti-vaping and drug awareness student assemblies and parent meetings. Staffers at various Southern California campuses are stepping up patrols of hidden nooks, installing costly detection devices, […]
Tim Keller writing in the NYT | How Do Christians Fit Into the Two-Party System? They Don’t
This NYT Op Ed by Tim Keller seeks to put sincere, biblical believers in both, or neither, of the political parties. To me, the abortion issue alone busts this arguement. God is not a republican, and He is certainly not a democrat. No single party has cornered the market on biblical sensibilities, but at least […]
The Believer’s Certainty that the Scriptures Are the Final Authority for Belief and Behavior (Part 1)
Paul declares that all Scripture is “profitable” or “useful” (ὠφέλιμος; 2 Tim 3:16) in the sense of yielding a practical benefit (1 Tim 4:8; Titus 3:8). This benefit is delineated in four phrases.1 These phrases are arranged in two pairs, each with a negative and positive aspect. The first pair of words deals with belief […]