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There is spiritual danger in Paganism, and as Origen stated (and recently quoted by Pope Benedict) Paganism is defined by “Lacking feeling and reason, they are transformed into stones and wood.” In other words, Paganism flattens our perception, makes all experience virtual, dumbing down our senses...

From Marvin Olasky of World Magazine : A Gallup poll in 1972 showed 66 percent of Americans opposing abortion legalization. That year Detroit newspapers heavily supported a Michigan referendum to establish abortion on demand through the first five months of pregnancy, but 61 percent of Michigan...

From Al Mohler: Preaching has fallen on hard times. So suggests a report out of Durham University's College of Preachers. The British university's CODEC research center, which aims to explore "the interfaces between the Bible, the digital environment and contemporary culture," conducted the study...

From an interview with Greg Beale in Martin Downes' very helpful book Risking the Truth : Part 1: The Exegetical Foundations of Inerrancy Why do you believe the Bible, as originally given, is not only inspired but also inerrant? What are some of the principle exegetical foundations of inerrancy? As...

"To me, God is..." "God told me..." "What does this verse mean to you?" "I'm into God not doctrine." "God speaks to me through the mountains." In a day when the evangelical church is saturated with intuitive, mystical, and otherwise breezy approaches to spirituality the need for a robust doctrine...

Once again the seemingly ever present Brian McLaren is poised to present something as new which is actually just a retread of ideas that tend to cling to the outer banks of Christianity like so much flotsam . To be a Christian – in the West, at least, since the fifth or sixth century or so – has...

John Ensor is a great leader in the pro-life movement and author of one of my "must reads" - The Great Work of the Gospel

All abortion providers know that what they do is an act of destruction. Try as they might they cannot escape the truth that abortion is homicide. What is more, abortion is homicide against the weakest and most vulnerable members of the human family. It is the most heartless of heartless actions. It...

The church will always be harassed by those who deny the full truthfulness and trustworthiness of the Bible as God's Word. That is not new. What is new however are the number of so-called evangelicals who accuse the Bible of errors, contradictions, and inconsistencies. Fortunately however God has...

The following is part two of Martin Downes' interview with Greg Beale on biblical inerrancy: Part 2: Dealing with denials and criticisms of the doctrine of inerrancy What are some of the consequences of denying inerrancy? Ultimately, if you hold just to limited infallibility (for example, just the...