Coach to Return to High School Football Field After 7-Year Court Battle Over Prayer There
The Supreme Court, which heard arguments in the case, ruled in Kennedy’s favor in June 2022.
Now, Kennedy is inviting all Americans to join him Sept. 1 and take a knee to celebrate a national night of prayer. Kennedy’s story of faith and determination captured the attention of the nation and compelled the football coach to write a book sharing his story and explaining why he chose to spend years in and... Continue Reading
My Coldest Night and Warmest Truth
I would always remember that God is good.
People often tell me not to let the death of my brother define me. While I would not have his death be the only thing someone knows about me, it is inevitable that it had changed me. That cold night was one where I experienced something I would not wish on my worst enemy. But there... Continue Reading
The Coming Persecution
This trial isn’t just persecution against Päivi, it is persecution against Jesus and his Church.
LGBT ideology cannot co-exist with Christian theology. It cannot compete with the loving, hopeful, freeing gospel of Jesus Christ. Therefore, it suppresses Christianity through persecution. It arrests Christians for preaching the gospel. It criminalises speech against homosexuality and transgenderism. And it charges people like Päivi Räsänen for quoting the Bible on social media. Don’t be... Continue Reading
Constantine’s Foil
How peace in Rome led to persecution in Persia.
Sometime before 325, the now-Christian Roman emperor Constantine wrote Shapur a letter, in which he encouraged the young shah to embrace Christianity.9 Constantine pointed out the presence of many Christians in Persia and urged Shapur to treat them well: “Now, because your power is great, I commend these persons to your protection; because your piety... Continue Reading
Review: Losing Our Religion
Sturm and Drang with little substance.
Losing Our Religion is an autobiography disguised as an indictment of evangelicalism, and not a very ecumenical one at that. Moore is not interested in convincing the reader. He does not make arguments but rather opts for emotive reflections, flippant diagnostics. It is a self-indulgent project and others of Moore’s sentiment and experience indicate the... Continue Reading
Not Without Prayer
Did God heal my child?
As Nicholas’s third birthday approached, and with nothing provoking us to sense anything outside the ordinary, my wife, Jana, happened to notice a small number of brown splotches on his skin. Their emergence had been subtle; vaguely circular or oval in shape, and not especially large, they had surfaced at seemingly random spots on his... Continue Reading
The Arrival of American Presbyterianism: We’ve Been Dating It All Wrong
At Jamaica, Long Island, an organized Presbyterian congregation was established by 1662, probably the first permanent Presbyterian church in the new world.
Presbyterians were founding congregations in the New World as early as the 1630s. Denton himself had established “a Presbyterian church” in Hempstead, Long Island in 1641 even though he was preaching “to a Presbyterian congregation from the first arrival, in 1630.” Pre-1700s Presbyterianism in America is shrouded in mystique. Some would say it didn’t... Continue Reading
You Don’t Know When Your Last Sermon Will Be
We must make our last sermon a good sermon. And since we’ll probably preach our last sermon without knowing it, all our sermons must be good sermons.
As history’s most widely read preacher, Spurgeon is probably quoted more than any other pastor—25 million words of his sermons are available in 63 printed volumes. The London pastor’s life was marked by suffering, opposition, loss, depression, and physical pain. “Imagine placing your foot in a vice,” he said, describing his gout, “and tightening the vice... Continue Reading
A Godly Man Weeps
There is an assumption that real men are not supposed to cry.
In his short work, The Emotional Life of Our Lord, BB Warfield writes of the compassion, love, indignation, and sorrow that Jesus experienced during His earthly ministry. Jesus was “subject to all sinless human emotions.” [4] So, what were the occasions that caused the Lord to weep? Three moments in Jesus Christ’s earthly ministry stand... Continue Reading
Berengarius of Tours and the Dispute on the Lord’s Supper
Berengarius, like Ratramnus, affirmed that the bread and wine are a sign, or similitude, of the body and blood of Christ.
His discussion with Lanfranc started in 1047. It had many similarities with the discussion between Radbertus and Ratramnus. But the times had changed, and his opponents reported to Rome that Berengarius was denying the true presence of Christ in the sacrament. Actually, like Ratramnus before him, Berengarius didn’t deny the mystery of that presence. But... Continue Reading
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