Every day is Christmas
It’s Christmastime, so it’s time for the seasonal handwringing over our culture’s reducing the season to little more than a time for gift-giving…
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Atheist “mega-churches”
From World Magazine (Nov. 13, 2013) by Warren Cole Smith: Atheist megachurches. According to the Associated Press, atheist “megachurches” are springing up across the country,…
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Does truth matter in Washington, D.C.?
Quite the brouhaha has erupted in Washington, D.C., over a simple promise which President Obama made when he and his Democratic Party were…
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Are we amazed at grace?
Doubtlessly, one of the most widely-sung and best-known hymns of Christianity is “Amazing Grace”: Amazing grace! how sweet the sound, That saved a…
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Spurgeon on music in worship
If you want to venture into contentious and acrimonious debates, bring up music in worship. The past three or four decades have witnessed…
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Thinking about Independence Day
With Independence Day coming on the heels of two Supreme Court decisions paving the way for the national recognition of same-sex marriage, I…
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Do you have to do the extraordinary to (really) follow Jesus?
Spring commencement exercises have come and gone. Speakers throughout the country encouraged the new grads to be extraordinary, to rise to the top,…
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Why is sin really so bad?
It may come as a surprise to many Christians, but our society really does believe in sin. Of course, the issue is who…
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Why do you believe what you believe?
To say that American society has undergone a seismic shift in the past fifty years is an exercise in understatement. We have gone…