Having been a pastor for over 25 years now, I write out of a deep concern over the state of the Church in America. If one was to look at Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, the Church in America today is stuck in Vanity Fair. There is a perpetual pursuit by American Christians for personal peace and prosperity. Comfort and ease reigns. I see no heartfelt desire amongst Christians to serve Him, and see His kingdom expanded […]
The great mistake of those who made laws for the Indians was their failure to understand that in order to civilize a people, one must first persuade then to settle in one place, and this cannot happen unless they cultivate the soil. Alexis de Tocqueville; Democracy in America; p. 378 Tocqueville’s point here is both very incisive and very relevant today. Being fashioned by God from the earth, man’s existence and development are bound up […]
Many who read this remember a time when the Biblical order for the family was, in a general but real way, accepted and practiced by our society as a whole. It was not perfect, but neither was it a subject for debate. A typical family was a family; it had a mother, a father, and children. The father was the protector and provider, and the mother was the home keeper. It was not entirely unusual […]
Authorities are put in place by God not only to hold men accountable but to reflect that all men are not their own, but are to be submissive to Christ. Wives submit to their husbands as to the Lord. Husbands love their wives as Christ loves His elect. In the State, we recognize the terrifying hand of God’s Law. We will all be held accountable on the final judgment for our violation of that law; […]
It’s time to put an end to a popular myth: “you can’t return to the days of Ozzie and Harriet”.Says who? The proponents of this myth are quick to point out that in “the days of Ozzie and Harriet” not everything was squeaky clean like it was in the TV show. No kidding. It was a TV show, not an analysis of current societal problems. As entertainment, it reflected the ideals of society in a […]
So I’m checking out local Christian radio while I’m out running errands today, and manage to tune into some program telling us once again that the end is near, “right around the corner” apparently. So I think to myself, “Since I began to hear that the end is “right around the corner” there have been an awful lot of “corners”. Examples abound: Edgar Whisenant’s 88 Reasons Why The Rapture Will Be In 1988; Harold Campings’s more […]
Evolutionary textbooks teach us that millions of years ago the world was a pretty warm place with flora and fauna living on land masses that were fertile and blissfully uninhabited by humans. Then, in anticipation of the rise of Al Gore, Brexit, and anti-abortion legislators, the climate changed and dinosaurs and vegetation died off. Their destruction became the source of the coal and oil that we today use to again change the climate. Oh, and […]
By now, most of us have read the articles, seen the news reports, and heard the angry feminists talk about how bad the Alabama abortion bill is for women. The Pro-Life groups are touting it as a massive success and are tooting their horns saying that we are finally moving in the right direction to reverse Roe v Wade. Both sides want us to believe that there’s a revolution brewing. Can we believe the hype? […]
How many times in the passing of a year does the average American evangelical attend church and hear some combination of: “Christians need to expect persecution, we are just pilgrims in a strange land, and Jesus will rescue us through the Rapture”? It is difficult to know where to start, in my attempt to keep this simple and short. Yes, it is true that there is to be suffering in this world, as we hear every Sunday of […]
When pondering happiness, so many people struggle to find that intangible emotion. Fulfillment and happiness go hand in hand. We may feel that our fulfillment is not being met due to dissatisfaction with the current state of our life. We feel like we are not living up to our potential, or maybe there are blocked career or financial goals. Whatever the case may be, true happiness can elude many. Some pastors will enter into this […]
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