— Made in God’s Image, a 10-Part Bible Study Series — What exactly does being made in God’s image mean? What are some of the practical implications? An overview of this Bible study series is available here. This article introduces part 2. A teaching plan for part 2 is available here. Part 2 — Like […]
It is absolutely insane to die on this hill. —Becket Cook— Key point: Don’t be deceived. Despite emotional rhetoric and an appealing emotional presentation that is sure to be showcased in the film 1946, God’s Word is clear. It tells us that homosexuality — all forms of it — are sinful. Even so, Christ offers forgiveness of […]
Despite Scripture’s clear teaching, I’m afraid many people will be misled by this film. It’s ironic that the trailer quotes the 21-year-old seminary student warning the RSV translators, “Misinformed and misguided people may use the RSV translation of 1 Corinthians 6:9–10 as a sacred weapon.” The real problem is that this film will misguide and […]
Those who tread among serpents, and along a tortuous path, must use the cunning of the serpent. —Thomas Becket— Note: This week’s article originally appeared here and is made available through special arrangement with www.sundayschoolzone.com—an excellent website for Bible study resources, especially for preschoolers. A reproducible PDF copy of this article is available here. Key point: Christians […]
Never Stop Declaring God’s Truth Published by B. Nathaniel Sullivan on November 5, 2015 We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made […]
It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it. —Vance Havner— Key point: The world needs to hear God’s truth, unvarnished. As Christians, we have a responsibility and the authority to share it, both to honor […]
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a […]
The Challenges Are Great, but so Are the Opportunities Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present. —Alexander MacLaren— Key point: Just as Christ made a profound difference when He was here on earth, He wants […]
[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution, which holds us together, no man can tell, how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us, that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity. —Daniel Webster, February […]
We are a people and nation in imminent danger. We mock God, ridicule His Word and His ways, and flaunt gross immorality. —Franklin Graham1— Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake their ways, and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the […]
The other day I heard a man say, “I owe it to Jesus Christ that I can walk down the street with my head held erect and my shoulders squared to the world. I owe it to Him that I can look a pure woman in the face and grip an honest man by the […]
Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,…“So you, son of man: I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; therefore you shall hear a word from My mouth and warn them for Me. When I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you shall surely die!’ and you do […]
Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act. —Dietrich Bonhoeffer— In the last two posts1 we have been challenged to confront the prevailing worldview of Secularism and its counterfeit conclusions about marriage with the plain truth […]
A Lesson From History The Supreme Court Has Been Wrong Before If the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott opinion had been meekly accepted, America would truly have ended her experiment in ordered liberty. —William J. Bennett1— On Friday, March 6, 1857, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its ruling in the Dred Scott v. Sandford […]
The Present Challenge Resisting Obergefell Respects the Rule of Law Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them. —Frederick Douglass1— Part 1 is available here. Last time we examined the Supreme Court’s decision in the 1857 Dred Scott case […]
Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, Kind words and kind deeds. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1,2 — Born in Leominster, Massachusetts on September 26, 1774, John Chapman, better known […]
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