Young-Earth Creationism and Modern Fundamentalism: A Historical Study (Part 2) The fundamentalist movement began as early as the 1850s. It has been divided into at…
Young-Earth Creationism and Modern Fundamentalism: A Historical Study (Part 1) The launch of the modern Young Earth Creationist (YEC) movement dates to 1961, with the…
There’s a lot of talk about gluttony out there. I mean a lot. Billy Graham wrote a Q&A about it. Joe McKeever rebukes it. John…
As we were doing some intensive self-evaluation as a church a few years ago about our evangelistic effectiveness, we began wondering what our goal should…
“Why did he do that?” “I can’t believe he acted like that, it seems so out of character!” If you have been observing other Christians…
We live in a cold place. Winter in Calgary can last 6-7 months of the year. Neighbors often don’t see neighbors during those days, except…
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. FOR THERE IS NO POWER BUT OF GOD: THE POWERS THAT BE ARE ORDAINED OF GOD.…
When you buy a house, it is very important to inspect the foundation. Before my wife and I purchased a home for the first time,…
A few months ago, I finished preaching a long series through the gospels and I loosely used A.B. Bruce’s The Training of the Twelve for…
Do your kids ever manifest symptoms of First World Syndrome? Recent generations of young people have been groomed to have a certain sense of entitlement…
This spring, I taught a class on parenting at our church. In preparation for the class, I interacted with a number of different parenting resources.…
(RNS) — If the political alienation theory fully explained what’s going on in American religion, millennials would be leaving conservative religions in favor of ones…
We cannot escape conflicts because we cannot escape people, including Christians, who struggle with sinful pride and their sinful flesh. For this reason, conflicts will…
The music at our recent conference at First Baptist Church of Troy, Michigan (also see here), was one of the outstanding features of the meeting.…
I can be wrong, but God never is. “Of course!” you say. For those of us in ministry leadership, this is often a hard lesson…
For in Him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also His…
In the early days of our fledgling nation, pressure to conform to the Church of England drove many individuals to the new world. Henry Dunster…
Last week, I posted a summary of the concluding message delivered at our meeting. Today, I’d like to highlight all the available audio with some…
I don’t like sorrow. You might respond, “Of course, who does?” I mean, I really don’t like sorrow. My natural instinct is to flush it…
One friend facetiously relayed to another, “I just watched a film where a man’s wife is brutally murdered by a serial killer and his son…
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