Todd Pruitt's Posts

Todd Pruitt's Posts

Russia's Culture of Death

Todd Pruitt
Oct 7, 2008
Al Mohler has written a fascinating post on abortion and the continuing decline of Russia. Dr. Mohler writes: Reports out of Russia indicate that the recent military clash with Georgia may have represented something more like desperation than opportunism. Murray Feshbach of The Washington Post...

Naming and Claiming Bad Loans

Todd Pruitt
Oct 7, 2008
I found an interesting article over at Time.com that links some of the financial disasters related to the current subprime crisis to the prosperity "gospel". Readers of this blog know what I think about the dangerous teaching of people like Creflo Dollar, Kenneth Copeland, Joyce Meyer, etc. Sloppy...

McKnight on MacLaren

Todd Pruitt
Oct 6, 2008
An interesting article by Scott McKnight ran in the latest issue of Christianity Today . Dr. McKnight has been a friend to the emergent church movement. He is a bright man who, no doubt, loves the Lord. McKnight gives the emergent folks much more credit than do I. That is what made his article in...

A Good but Difficult Day

Todd Pruitt
Oct 5, 2008
I announced to my church family today that I have accepted a call to be the Senior Teaching Pastor of Church of the Savior in Wayne, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia metro area). It is a process that began at the first of June and was not finalized until a week ago. Through much prayer, conversation, and...

Shall We Have Political Pulpits?

Todd Pruitt
Oct 3, 2008
The Alliance Defense Fund made news recently by encouraging pastors to endorse a presidential candidate from the pulpit. Last Sunday, 31 pastors in 22 states did just that. The ADF characterized this as an act of civil disobedience. The pastors in question have risked their church's tax exempt...

Spirituality and God's Word

Todd Pruitt
Oct 3, 2008
I am preaching from Luke 10:38-42 this Sunday. It is the account of Jesus at the home of Lazarus with Martha and Mary. Often times it is allegorized, making Mary an example of quietism and Martha an example of activism. In this way, the story has been used as a means to justify a mystical approach...

God's love shown through Christ's substitution

Todd Pruitt
Oct 3, 2008
“It is a strange thing that when men talk about the love of God, they show by every word that they utter that they have no conception at all of the depths of God’s love. "If you want to find an instance of true gratitude for the infinite grace of God, do not go to those who think of God’s love as...

Perspective for the Current Crisis

Todd Pruitt
Sep 30, 2008
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance? Who has measured the Spirit of the Lord, or what man shows him his counsel? Whom did he consult...

Dawkins Always Disappoints

Todd Pruitt
Sep 30, 2008
There is a very helpful post at Christian Thinker proving once again that Richard Dawkins may be a good scientist but he is a dismal philosopher. Here is Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion: If you were born in Arkansas and you think Christianity is true and Islam is false, knowing full well that...

Common Grace and Learning

Todd Pruitt
Sep 30, 2008
Engaging God's World is a wonderful book by Cornelius Plantinga. Dr. Plantinga, one of the foremost philosphers in the country is also President of Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In the preface, Plantiga provides a wonderful connection between our learning and how we love...