Todd Pruitt's Posts

Todd Pruitt's Posts

Would you like some wine with that cheese?

Todd Pruitt
Jul 1, 2009
Some thoughts on one of America's most common exports - cheesy evangelicalism. I recently attended an English-speaking Evangelical church while on vacation in Mexico (the location is withheld to protect the guilty). It was the only Protestant church that I could find. I would have gladly attended a...

C.S. Lewis on Tryanny

Todd Pruitt
Jul 1, 2009
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us...

Good Eats!

Todd Pruitt
Jul 1, 2009
I found the following website over at Denise Malagari's blog. I laughed. I cried. Check it out - THIS IS WHY YOU'RE FAT

Rome and the Second Commandment

Todd Pruitt
Jun 30, 2009
Why is it that the Church of Rome has such a flagrant disregard for the Second Commandment? When parishioners of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Roman Catholic Shrine in Melrose Park decided to create gold crowns for statues of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus, they donated to the cause by reaching deep into...

Ready for Camp?

Todd Pruitt
Jun 30, 2009
Camp goes with summer like peas go with carrots (or something like that). Anyway, Richard Dawkins, the world's most breathless atheist, has a fresh idea for summer camp. It seems that Dr. Dawkins has decided to join the rest of thoughtful humanity and do something for the children. Al Mohler writes...

Did Christ die "in our place"?

Todd Pruitt
Jun 30, 2009
In the following article Gary Williams responds to Steve Chalke's denial of Christ's penal substitution. Dr. Williams writes: Chalke asks some interesting questions. He is concerned that people almost universally think of ‘certain elements of the Church as judgemental, guilt inducing, bigoted and...

Do not deceive your own soul

Todd Pruitt
Jun 29, 2009
"But let none deceive their own souls; wherever there is a saving principle of grace, it will be thriving and growing unto the end. And if it fall under obstructions, and thereby into decays for a season, it will give no rest or quietness unto the soul wherein it is, but will labor continually for...

Sunday's Sermon

Todd Pruitt
Jun 29, 2009
This week's sermon is part 6 of the series on Hebrews - "The Story of the Christ." You can listen to or download it HERE .

When we can't figure God out

Todd Pruitt
Jun 27, 2009
When the Lord’s ways do not neatly conform to our pat little paradigms of what seems (to our fallible minds) right and just, and good and faithful, it says something about human nature that usually the first thought that comes to mind is that something is wrong with God. Somehow the last thing that...

Is Hypocrisy Unpardonable?

Todd Pruitt
Jun 27, 2009
Writing about the sad revelations of marital infidelity by South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, Joe Carter of First Things writes: Sanford may very well turn out to be guilty of hypocrisy if he refuses to resign. But he is repeatedly being refereed to as a hypocrite for the wrong reasons by people...