The incarnation of Jesus Christ is a fundamental of the gospel. Essential to our salvation is the teaching that the Second Person of the Godhead…
Recently, bursts of machine gun fire echoed across the lobby of a hotel in Nairobi, Kenya. Al-Shabab had struck again. In 2013, 67 were murdered…
It was with a great sense of joy and of loss that we received the news on Saturday of Beneth Jones’ heavenward journey. There…
Release from Bob Jones University: Dear Alumni Early this morning, Feb. 2, 2019, Beneth Peters Jones, 81, wife of Bob Jones University chancellor and former…
The state of New York has been on the news, both in Christian circles and in the general media. The recent headlines about the new…
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…
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