| MAKE US YOUR HOMEPAGE | "Whoever claims to live in Him must walk as Jesus did." 1 John 2:6 |
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 | Articles* * * On a Christian mission to the top, they are part of an expanding beachhead of evangelicals in the American elite... [more]* * * The future of the Church lies in smaller churches made up of more dedicated followers — a Christianity characterized more by the mustard seed... [more]* * * It would be no exaggeration to say that Archive.org will change ministry, seminary education, and missions as we know it. The world just got a whole lot smaller... [more]* * * Anthony Flew, one of the most famous athiests of our time, now believes based on scientific evidence... [more] [more]* * * Creation Festival. Left Behind. Bibleman. In Evangelical Christianity today, God is in the retail... [more]* * * "Where did I say that you should buy so much stuff to celebrate My birthday?"... [more]* * * What happens when the leader of the free world rejects privatizing his religion and mixes his faith with his public service?... [more]* * * Intelligent Design is taking the fight to Darwinism like never before, advancing into h.s. curriculums... [more]* * * The Great Debate is not whether there is a God, but whether God is morally relevant. Secular humanism (Sam Harris) versus Ethical monotheism (Dennis Prager).* * * In the opinion of J.I. Packer, John Piper, R.C. Sproul, et al, today's best English Bible version that comes closest to the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek is... [more]* * * Judaism's sexual revolution: why Judaism (and then Christianity) rejected homosexuality... [more]* * * The mature understand that the bitterest joke of all is that the quickest way to grow old lies in the hopeless attempt to stay forever young... [more]* * * Jesus, wife of Mary Magdalene, founder of the Priory of Sion... [more]* * * In times of great despair over whether God still speaks in the world, we're sent prophets like Martin Luther King Jr.... [more]* * * 1) The United States is a deeply religious country. 2) Gluttony is one of the seven deadly sins. 3) Americans are the fattest people in the world... [more]* * * On November 22, 1963, a mind that grasped both heaven and hell left this world... [more]* * * If one person can make a difference, then what's the secret of becoming such a person? Listen to the witness of Annalena Tonelli... [more]* * * How do today's churches compare to the original churches of the apostles? The differences are profound... [more]* * * If more scientists than arts people believe in God, does that prove the unweaved rainbow can be woven back?... [more]* * * Marry the infinite porn resources of the Net to the endlessness of male sexual desire, underpin it with consumer culture, and men can end up practically frigging themselves to death... [more]* * * What made Mother Theresa's self-negating work possible was not a subjective experience of ecstasy but an objective relationship to God shorn of the sensible awareness of God's presence... [more]* * * Lost in the debate on abstinence-only sex ed vs. "comprehensive" contraception information is the idea that girls should hear about sex's possible emotional consequences... [more]* * * Should religious congregations sponsor speed dating?... [more]* * * In the Gospel according to Neo, the idea of free lives is inseparable from the idea of the real thing... [more]* * * The King James Bible is the greatest work ever written in English. Not the work of a single inspired genius, it came out of a committee... [more]* * * The Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled that a fetus is a body part, akin to teeth, skin and hair that are eventually shed... [more]* * * Is it the end of the world as we know it? The Iraq war has been a field day for end time prophets... [more]* * * The internet has gone beyond networking people to vast amounts of information. It has also introduced computer-mediated prayer... [more]* * * An Evangelical Christian today is not defined by what he believes in but by what he buys - his books, apparel, videos, paintings... [more]* * * Bonhoeffer was martyred when he saw Christ was no longer in the church but in the secular world of human community... [more]* * * The Church celebrates both good news and bad news as it turns the page of 2002. Here's a summary analysis... [more]* * * The Jesus Market: Christianity may be struggling in the public square, but it's prospering in the public bazaar... [more]* * * The most important line in the Rings trilogy is spoken by Gandalf: "You cannot pass! I am a servant of the Secret Fire!" Tolkien poured Christian values into a pagan world... [more]* * * Is engaging God with music today very important for worship? Apparently the trend in Protestant churches is leaning toward... [more]* * * The mission: to do as many reconstructive surgeries on Third World children as possible in 10 days... [ more]* * * Are you afraid that you'll be left behind? Historically, Christians have not suffered this anxiety because they never believed in a rapture... [more]* * * Trick or treat? It's America's second favorite holiday, and its controversial history and origins make for fascinating reading... [more ]* * * The separation between rock and Christ has crumbled. Just ask Lenny Kravitz, Lifehouse, Creed, P.O.D... [more]* * * As the oldest archaeological link to the New Testament, a limestone ossuary with the words "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus" inscribed on it in Aramaic is a goldmine... [more]* * * If you want to understand material culture at the beginning of the 21st century, you must understand the overwhelming importance of unnecessary material... [more]* * * In the war on terrorism, some Christians are asking, "Where does 'turning the other cheek' come in?"... [more]* * * Stupid church tricks, anyone? Many church youth groups are hip to teaching young people a sanctified form of worldliness... [more]* * * Some sisters in Christ today have taken the Great Commission to another level: missionary cohabiting... [more]* * * Does Christianity make a difference in society? Consider South Korea. Of its 1,150 NGOs, 70% are Christian-based... [more]* * * Why a theoretical physicist thinks the design of the universe points to divine intelligence... [more]* * * International Justice Mission investigates and prosecutes pimps in countries like Thailand and ultimately liberates child sex slaves with the gospel... [more] [more]* * * The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud debate God, love, sex, and the meaning of life... [part 1] [part 2] [book]* * * The music of J.S. Bach - the fifth evangelist - pierces the membrane that separates the material world from the spiritual one. Just ask the Japanese... [more]* * * If evil triumphs when good people do nothing, then why do good people keep doing nothing again and again even in the era of never again?... [more]* * * Some believe that churches have to become as attractive as secular forms of entertainment, as gripping as the Super Bowl and MTV, or perish... [more]* * * The dogma of the new anti-religion is that all reports of supernatural power must be fraudulent. Now who are the ones being narrow-minded?... [more]* * * Could a red heifer born last month bring about the end of the world as we know it? Dispensat ionalists think so... [more]* * * The Crusades are generally thought of as one of the darkest periods in church history. But just how bad were they historically speaking?... [more]* * * The era of Western Christianity has passed within our lifetimes, and the day of Southern Christianity is dawning... [more]* * * Instead of merely critiquing the texts, one should also apply a hermeneutic of trust, allowing the Bible to critique us... [more]* * * The opening of the American evangelical mind began by living the questions of life and has resulted in greater influence in society at large... [more] ... [more]* * * "Lest I forget Gethsemane, lest I forget Thine agony; lest I forget Thy love for me, lead me to Calvary"... [more]* * * Going through the eye of a needle: reflections from the Church Fathers on wealth and possessions... [more]* * * "But we're going to be married anyway." 12 myths about cohabiting before marriage... [more]* * * Slavery is not history. This unique evil has simply evolved into more pernicious forms: sex slaves, child labor slaves... [more]* * * If being single is a special blessing, according to the Bible, then why get married?... [more]* * * Our struggles with the world, the flesh, and the devil are manifestations of the most frequently discussed problem in the Bible: idolatry... [more]* * * More Christians have been martyred in the past century than all other centuries combined...[N. Korea] [Sudan] [Indone sia] * * * S/he? Gender-neutral Bibles reflect our culture's desire to be more inclusive and egalitarian. What's wrong with that?...[more]* * * Are Christians arrogant for believing Jesus is the only way? It really depends on if Jesus is the only way... [more]* * * The relationship between science and Christianity has historically been not only positive but necessary... [more]* * * U.S. Catholic bishops today oppose the death penalty. Should every Christian?... [more] ... [more]* * * Tracking the progress of intelligent-design theory in the war on Darwinism... [more]* * * Reevaluating Money magazine's list of best places to live from the perspective of people who see money as the root of many evils... [more]* * * True reconciliation comes not by ignoring justice nor by putting justice first, but by unconditional embrace... [part 1] [part 2]* * * Make love not war? Turn the other cheek? What should a Christian's position on war be?... [m ore]* * * Calvinism is the attitude of prayer, and is simply a nickname for the Biblical gospel. |
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| Essays and Opinions* * * The Jewish rejection of bread on Passover was a symbolic rejection of Egypt and its death religion... [more]* * * Look at where religion is most vibrant today, and the obvious conclusion is that what nurtures faith is not special privileges but rather adversity... [more]* * * No wonder many of us feel agonized this week, betwixt and between, as Terri Schiavo slowly dehydrates... [more]* * * We've become less likely to object to something because it is immoral and more likely to object to something because it is unhealthy... [more]* * * From pulpits to news programs, the message of the tsunami was missed... [more]* * * Is it morally and theologically acceptable to hope anyone goes to hell?... [more]* * * You can't understand this rising global movement if you don't meet its authentic representatives. Not Jerry Falwell, but John Stott... [more]* * * "In the Soviet Union, the future is known; it's the past which is always changing"... [more] [audio]* * * Some reasons why young women are exposing themselves... [more]* * * The rise of the Righteous Army in America, from the Commander in Chief to 70 million foot soldiers... [more]* * * What's wrong with gay marriage? Or for that matter, with sibling marriage, or polygamy?. . . [more]* * * What would Jimmy Carter think about the Lord of the Rings and the "war is not the answer" movement?... [more]* * * America's Christian conservatives are more American than they are Christian or conservative... [more]* * * The worse that temples of secularism get, the more reassured I become of the truth of God... [more]* * * Why George Will is wrong in his opposition to the death penalty... [more]* * * What can give a person who does not want to live anymore a saving motivation to persevere?... [more]* * * Sometimes when you live lacking your parents' blessing, you can end up blessing them... [more]* * * A good example of the counterintuitive relevance of the Bible to our lives: If we can argue with God, our children can argue with us... [more]* * * God delivered the Jews from Egypt. Why does God not directly liberate the oppressed any more? God did it once to show us what God wanted. Now it is up to us... [more]* * * More American parents would be upset with their teenage children if they smoked a cigarette than if they cheated on a test... [more]* * * If you are an adult and enjoy Harry Potter, your experience of the numinous deserves pity... [more]* * * Believe it or not, there are limits to knowledge... [more]* * * Minnie Mae and I were sitting quietly on the porch when I had an urge to give an uninvited commencement address... [more]* * * A prayer worth remembering... [more]* * * Neither math nor science argues that all came about randomly, without a Creator. Only a keen desire to deny God explains such a belief... [more]* * * The Bible never suggests that God has obligations. Instead it is God who generates obligations by commanding people to act (or not to act) in certain ways... [more]* * * How does PETA come to equate killing chickens with murdering human beings? No God, no wisdom... [more]* * * Homosexuality: An attempt at clarity in a sea of confused rhetoric and political correctness... [more]* * * Has Rick Warren, the most influential pastor in America today, sold out Christianity for numbers?... [more]* * * Like a lot of people these days, I'm a recovering secularist going through a six-step program... [more]* * * No issue has a greater influence on determining your social and political views than whether you view human nature as basically good or not... [more]* * * On the 30th year anniversary of Roe v. Wade, 40 million babies and counting... [more]* * * They are the only remedies for our anxieties over the inevitability of history and the unpredictability of the future. Forgiving and promising are what keeps us in the image of God... [more]* * * The college admissions process today reveals how parents make their children into idols... [more]* * * Can you see in your mind's eye a poor person whom you have personally, directly helped during the past year?... [more]* * * Understand Nigeria and you'll understand the Islamic threat against civilization as we know it... [ more]* * * A mother has a legal right to kill a perpetrator in defense of her unborn child. She also has the right to kill her unborn child... [more]* * * When you tell a family that you will be praying for their kidnapped daughter, are you just telling them that you've given up? Or is prayer doing something?... [more]* * * Why must God always be higher than the Angels? Because neither a good nor a happy life is possible without knowing that... [more]* * * Stop the holy showboating. God doesn't care if you score a touchdown, so do your praying in private, not in the end zone... [ more]* * * As the U.S. internally debates the merits of attacking Iraq, shouldn't we be asking, "Is the U.S. any less evil?"... [more]* * * Is evangelizing to Jews redundant because their road to salvation is as good as the Christians?... [more]* * * How has it come to pass that in America the truism that it is better for children to be raised by a married mother and father is so controversial that the case for it must be made in a family magazine?... [more]* * * Every Christian knows that sooner or later he might have to testify to his faith at the cost of his life. Because to live is Christ and... [more]* * * Should Christians pray with Buddhists or Muslims? The rise of interfaith invocations and calls for religious tolerance requires deeper thought on just how far a committed believer should go in reaching out... [more]* * * Britney, Shakira, and other girls place images of their young bodies into the sweaty, perverted minds of anyone. What a shame... [more]* * * Forget the movie stars and politicians whose opinions you should forget in five minutes. Consider the commencement address a wise man would give... [more ]* * * There is a silent rapture going on daily which should put arguments between post/pre/a millenium proponents into perspective... [more]* * * Why do more students find nothing wrong with cheating? Because more parents value health over character, elitism over learning, and secularism over spirituality... [more ]* * * By confronting the world's atrocities, evangelicals have gained something among America's secular intellectuals that they have not had before: respect... [more]* * * Secularized culture poses a greater danger to Christianity than the atheistic attacks led by Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche. The solution? Look within... [more]* * * Try standing on your hands and see the world the way it was meant to be seen - as completely dependent on God... [more]* * * Many troubled, young Americans find their inspiration in mimicking rap artists. It is a tragic parody because they think they're being serious. Word... [more]* * * Religious acceptance of homosexuality undermines the Bible's moral relevance... [more] ... And egalitarianism of sin must not be allowed to make excuses for it... [more]* * * English Pastor-Poets par excellence George Herbert on: love, prayer, holdfast, agony, avarice and John Donne on: supplicat ion, mystery, forgiven ess.* * * The separation of faith and medicine is essential to the health of both. Advocating a medicalized spirituality only debilitates religion's greatest strength... [more]* * * Should Christians align themselves with Jews because they purportedly have a divine right in the Promised Land?... [more]* * * What kind of Christian wins souls? Neither a postmodern nor a modern evangelical, but the one who gets personal... [more ]* * * An Orthodox rabbi has a revealing conversation with a young woman who posed nude for Playboy magazine... [more]* * * "We came to serve, not to suffer." Can this be the motto of global missionaries in a post 9/11 world?... [more]* * * Despite President Bush's description, far from being a peaceful religion, Islam has bloody borders... [more]* * * Meditation is neither Bible study as modern evangelicals interpret it nor prayer as New Agers view it... [more]* * * The key to a Christian conception of secular studies is the realization that prayer consists of attention... [more]* * * Presenting Christ effectively, especially in a globalized world, first requires overcoming one's own cultural biases.... [more]* * * Can't a guy and girl just be friends? And just what's wrong with missionary dating?... [more]* * * The church isn't just about doctrine, obedience, and sacraments - it's also about having fun... [more]* * * "When you sleep with someone, your body makes a promise whether you do or not." How a brutal crime changed one person's view of virginity... [more]* * * Lust, fornication, and adultery are all clearly sins. Is masturbation?... [more]* * * The Nazis had to eliminate the Church. Understanding the Holocaust's pagan roots is key to understanding the nature of us all... [more]* * * "All Christians must forgive Osama bin Laden." When forgiveness is a sin... [more]* * * How do you reach people who think church is the problem, not the answer; who are "spiritual" but not religious?... [more]* * * Elevating Christ in a culture that sees all religions as equal requires appealing to what people intuitively already know to be true... [more]* * * Wives submit to husbands? Male-only pastors and elders? Haven't we progressed beyond gender differences?... [more]* * * In the end, will there be more people in heaven than in hell? Spurgeon and Warfield thought so... [more]* * * Christianity is a personal relationship with God. So are believers morally obligated to attend church?... [more]* * * "Why" has been supplanted by "So what?" What should apologetics look like in a postmodern age when Zarathustra shrugs?... [more]* * * Soul-health and happiness come not from beholding a great self, but a great splendor... [more]* * * Caring means first entering into the pain before doing something about it... [more]* * * Talking about hell in a tolerant age requires showing that it's less exclusive and more personal than postmodernist views... [more]* * * Churches should take greater interest in the spiritual health of their pastors because the calling is a lot harder than you might think... [more] ... [more]* * * Grappling with economic favoritism in our congregations means excluding "golf fellowship" because not everyone can afford it... [more]* * * Some pleasures are contemptible because they are coarsening. Take, for example, reality television... [more]* * * The importance of reading great Christian books, C.S. Lewis explains, is rooted in the invaluable perspective they give. Without them, one is left spiritually nearsighted and shallow... [mor e]* * * The Salvation Army with far less money or manpower is still more effective than the Red Cross because it has more faith... [more]* * * Addressing questions on everyone's mind after September 11... [more]* * * Perseverance pays, as Woody Allen pointed out, because 90% of life is just showing up... [more] |
