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Piltdown Chicken
Stephen Caesar In November 1999, National Geographic published photographs of what it claimed was incontrovertible proof that birds evolved from dinosaurs. In an article titled “Feathers for T. Rex?” the magazine announced, “New Birdlike Fossils Are Missing Links in Dinosaur Evolution” (Sloan 99). The article featured a photograph, taken under ultraviolet light, of a creature…
Read MoreEncouragement of the Psalms
Mike Stalnaker In the late 1800s, Rowland Prothero compiled instances of how God used the book of Psalms specifically in the lives of people. Prothero divides his book into 12 chapters covering the Psalms from the “Early Ages of Christianity” until the 1900s. His book, The Psalms in Human Life, is the result of his…
Read MoreIslam: What’s the Real Problem?
Gordon A. Dickson After the jetliners pierced the World Trade Center in fiery explosions on September 11, 2001, the whole world seemed to be asking, “Why?” What is at the root of these terrible crimes? How can whole groups of people be so devoted to killing others? How does terrorism prosper in a world that…
Read MoreBuilding Bridges to China on the College Campus in America
Carl Sebris In 1978 Deng Xiaoping (1904–97) came to power and, as David Aikman writes, “opened China up both to its own latent internal creative energies and to the outside world with his famous ‘open door’ policy.”1 Mao Zedong’s (1893–1976) “Cultural Revolution” (1966–76) had closed China off and isolated the Chinese people from the outside…
Read MoreAdoption: The Precious Truth of Belonging
Robert Condict A reader might be tempted to quickly gloss over a list of technical terms that relate to our salvation: justification, sanctification, conversion, repentance, election, adoption, perseverance (or was it preservation?). The list may appear to be tedious. Perhaps we should just thank God we are saved. Why make this precious truth any more…
Read MoreCan The Music Issue Be Resolved?
Gordon Dickson There are no absolutes.” “What works is what counts.” “The end justifies the means.” “Music is amoral.” These are not statements of fact; they are statements of philosophy. The statements above are the rules of relativism. Such philosophies should be discarded (Col. 2:8). The Christian is called to honor God in every area…
Read MoreGood Preaching vs. God-Honoring Preaching
Jerry Sivnksty As I travel across the country as an evangelist, I have noticed a disturbing trend that grieves my heart. It has to do with churches that use contemporary Christian music: they’ve gotten rid of the hymnals and instead flash their music on large screens to the background of worldly beats. Then the minister…
Read MoreAccountability in Missions
Jeff Musgrave Missions consists of a curious relationship between a pastor and the local church he serves, a missionary, and, in most cases, a mission agency. Before we can address accountability, it is necessary to delineate each party’s responsibilities and their relationships with each other.
Read MoreThe Historical Developments of the Campus Ministry (2)
William J. Senn III For Part One click here. Student Religious Meetings and Societies in America The Prayer for the Servants of God: Harvard University In America, eighty-eight of the first one hundred colleges were organized to preach the gospel.1 In 1636 the first of these, Harvard, was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by Puritans who…
Read MoreThe Historical Developments of the Campus Ministry (1)
William J. Senn III New Testament Days — School of Tyrannus The Priority of the Church of God The roots for campus ministry are found in Acts 19:8–10, with the apostle Paul ministering at Tyrannus University (TU) at Ephesus. Tyrannus was either the owner of the school or its most famous Dean of Doom, “the…
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