Current cultural and religious trends in our country are alarming and ought to be upsetting to the faithful Christian. Church attendance is down. The number…
Time to wrap up the series of gender questions emailed to me a while back. (For related issues previously discussed, see Part 1 and Part…
There are times in the life of a Christian when certain passages of Scripture become especially meaningful. One of those passages for me is Psalm…
It used to be that when people rushed to judgement or mistakenly over-reacted, they did it in private around the water cooler, over the back…
More questions about gender issues from an emailer. (See Gender Questions Part 1 for backstory.) Q: Scripture quotes Eve saying that she ate because she…
Last Sunday was our church’s Annual General Meeting. We always look forward to this meeting because, for us, it’s been a discipleship tool and a…
Some well-meaning believers promote tent-making as the preferred biblical pattern for pastors today. By “tent-making,” I am referring to an approach to pastoral ministry in…
As a fire service chaplain I have been exposed to extreme forms of crises most pastors never encounter. Frequently I have to minister to the…
Dead orthodoxy is still dead. It is not worth having. I am serious. A church that takes all the right positions, sings all the right…
Christian colleges face a growing danger from the tsunami-like changes in Western countries. The danger comes from the moral changes in the wider public and…
During the calendar year of most non-liturgical churches the Lord’s birth in Bethlehem is celebrated longer than any other aspect of his person or ministry,…
I’ve said it before. I get some of my most thought-provoking questions from emails. This emailer raised a number of issues about how Scripture impacts…
What is a helpmeet? Or, for that matter, what is a helpmate? According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, “helpmate” is “altered from helpmeet.” It is…
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:…
A recent post by Dr. Bill Barrick brought up the topic of prophets and prophecy. Dr. Barrick’s theme is “The Authority of Scripture in the…
“And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist,…
When you encounter a lion in the wild, how should you respond? According to prevailing advice, you should stand your ground. Do not run but…
We tend to make God in our own image—literally. Many conservative Christians find black depictions of Jesus in art as odd, a sort of self-serving…
Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your LORD doth come. Matthew 24:42 It is traditional at this time of the year to reflect…
We observe a disturbing trend in the United States in recent years – the lowering of the average life expectancy. With no major war, continual…
