Frankly, if everything you knew about Christmas came from tree ornaments, house decorations and Christmas movies, you might not have a clue the holiday ever had anything to do with the birth of Christ. The fact that people think of Christmas trees as religious symbols proves Christians have not made their message clear.    ... Continue Reading

“The Supreme Court has recognized that physician speech is entitled to First Amendment protection because of the significance of the doctor-patient relationship,” the judge noted. That high court has concluded “At some point, a measure is no longer a regulation of a profession but a regulation of speech or of the press; beyond that point,... Continue Reading

Insight into the pornography increasingly exchanged by young teenagers came from interviews carried out for the NSPCC and Channel 4’s Generation Sex series. ‘This is mainstream; this is normal; this is almost mundane for some of the people we spoke to… ‘In pretty much every school in the country, people aged 13 and 14 are... Continue Reading

In her petition, Rhonda Hunter submitted photos of bruises on her arms she said Isaac caused during an argument at their Winter Park home on Feb. 13, 2011. She said Isaac kicked in a locked bedroom door, held her down on a bed by the arms and yelled obscenities at her….A month later…Rhonda Hunter said... Continue Reading

By God’s grace we can do good works of Christian service to others which ALSO please God as sweet-smelling sacrifices

I doubt many Christians, including those who oppose Christmas, give Chinese take-out a second thought. But in consistency, this may have pagan associations that are current rather than historical. Not a dead religion, but a living religion-albeit false. Real idolatry.   Every year, as the Christmas season approaches, some folks object to the celebration of... Continue Reading

But meditating through the story of the prodigal son has also left me intrigued and hopeful, especially for new church plants and pastors who long for a more gospel-centered approach to church discipline. How can we do church discipline differently? What do we need to put into place that will enable us to extend the corrective heart and hand of our heavenly Father in such a way that the gospel is more clearly driving the whole process?

The issue is about what sort of union the state will recognize as “marriage” and confer all the benefits thereof. The state doesn’t tell us who we can be friends with or who we can live with. You can have one friend or three friends or a hundred. You can live with your sister, your mother, your dog, or your buddy from work. You can celebrate your relationship with your grandma or your college roommate however you want. But none of these relationships–no matter how special–are marriages.

Wisner (1830's) ran moral tales concerning the consequences of seduction, adultery, and abandonment, and wrote that he had received “much complaint” from some readers—but he thought naming names of moral offenders was an important deterrent

“In a denomination which tolerates open heresy from the pulpit and the seminary podium, one might think that any idea is allowed. After all, it has gone without a single heresy trial in almost 60 years, and has no list of essential beliefs,” says Sykes. But there is “one charge alone, without any proof or trial, [that] can be used at best to blackball a pastor, or at worst to remove him or her from office. That charge is schism.”