Posts by Don Johnson
Should Hispanic Churches in the US Preserve Spani… | Christianity Today
Villanueva has seen how Spanish worship has deepened his faith and blessed the church, but he doesn’t believe churches should make it their goal to preserve language or cultural practices. “After living in America for a while, I was able to observe that the Hispanic church had barricaded itself, on the one side thinking that…
Read MoreVanderbilt Medical Center Suspends Gender-Transition Surgeries for Minors following Backlash | National Review
Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s transgender clinic in Nashville has temporarily suspended gender-transition surgeries for minors after a wave of backlash. Source: Vanderbilt Medical Center Suspends Gender-Transition Surgeries for Minors following Backlash | National Review
Read MoreThe Queen Is Dead. Long Live the King
I appreciated Kevin Schaal’s post yesterday in response to the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, The Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, and the United Kingdom. That’s quite a list, but…
Read MoreBook Review: The Voyage And Shipwreck Of St. Paul
One of the best books I’ve read in a long time comes to us as a reprint of an 1880 revision of a book first published in 1848. Smith, James. The Voyage and Shipwreck of St. Paul: With Dissertations on the Life and Writings of St. Luke, and the Ships and Navigation of the Ancients.…
Read MoreAre You Humble?
The question is impossible. If you answer, “Yes,” you are most likely lying or else deceived. If you answer, “No,” you are under conviction, even if your answer is honest… which it would be. Pride is one of the fundamental sins, if not the fundamental sin. Fundamental in that it is involved in the first…
Read MoreWhat is Government for?
In a recent article, Kevin Schaal, writing in response to comments about Tim Keller on abortion, politics, and law, made a statement about the purpose of government: The most basic responsibility of human government is the protection of life. One of our readers raised a question about this point in a comment we thought worth…
Read MoreWhy the FBFI?
We enjoyed tremendous services and other sessions at our recent annual meeting, held at Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Greenville, SC. You can find audio and video for our sessions here (not all sessions recorded in video). One of our afternoon panel discussions featured a worthy question for our panelists, “Why join the FBFI?” Our…
Read MoreBelieving Evangelism – 2022 Annual FBFI Fellowship
We are in Greenville, SC, at Mount Calvary Baptist Church for the annual FBFI Fellowship meeting. We enjoyed a tremendous opening service, with great music and good fellowship. So many good friends from years of ministry are gathered at this meeting, and there are new ones to meet as well. This meeting is a highlight…
Read MoreWhat Are We Missing in Our Bibles?
In a Biblical Archaeology Review (BAR) article,1 Ben Witherington III says, “First, we know that Pharisees — including Paul, as a former Pharisee — did indeed believe in a bodily resurrection as the form of future afterlife. This was based in part on a certain understanding of Daniel 12.1-3 and the development of thought that…
Read MoreOverturning Roe Isn’t Enough
All on the conservative side of politics, whether Christian or secular, take heart in the leaked Supreme Court document. It appears the document will form the basis of a hopeful decision soon forthcoming. The extreme reactions of some makes one wonder if the pressure will cause one justice or another to waver, but so far…
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