Are Christians too polite? Perhaps that sounds like a stupid question. Is it possible to be too polite? I'm not talking about saying "Yes sir" and "thank you." I am thinking about our interaction with those in error. In our pluralistic culture it is not popular to identify error or to say something...

Of the latest round of violence in Gaza, Victor Davis Hansen writes: Hamas with its serial rocket attacks on Israel interprets all of the above not as an opportunity for prosperity, but as a stage one for the great accomplishment of its generation — the absolute destruction of the Jewish state. Its...

I love the Psalms in part because they provide us with the images, names, and terminology with which to understand God and how we are to relate to Him. They teach us how to speak to God. The Psalms give us the language of praise, confession, sorrow, complaint, thanksgiving, and ultimately trust...

Al Gore knows a good deal when he sees one. He has parlayed his environmental activism into a multi-million (billion?) dollar enterprise. Now the hapless Church of England is giving him over 150 million dollars. The former Vice President is flush in green . The Church of England’s Church...

There are some history books that are important but not very readable. Others are quite readable but not very important. When a book comes along that provides both an important contribution to our understanding of the world and is also a page-turner then something special has come our way. Such is...

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You can listen to or download my first four sermons at Church of the Saviour HERE .

The posting is going to be pretty spotty over the next week. We are traveling during the holidays. We drove across Pennsylvania today. What a beautiful state! We're staying in Dayton, Ohio tonight. By the way, if you're ever in Dayton during meal time don't eat at Tumbleweed . Let's just say that...

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Al Mohler has a typically brilliant response to the fury over President-elect Obama's decision to have Rick Warren pray at his inauguration. In the process he asks some important questions concerning Mr. Obama's real position on the issue. Dr. Mohler writes: Now here is an interesting point. The...

So says another CNN meteorologist. Check out the story HERE .

Pictures speak louder than a thousand bad scientists.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the...

One of my favorite magazines is Touchstone . In the December 08 issue James Hitchcock writes a spot-on editorial addressing abortion and single issue voting. He writes: If 2008 is remembered as the year of the “bailout,” when the federal government spent billions to rescue the nation’s financial...

Here is John MacArthur on TBN. That's right, on TBN! Notice how this crowd used to the usual pap offered on TBN responds to the true Gospel. Part 1 Part 2

If you are not familiar with the writings of Professor Victor Davis Hanson then I encourage you to read him. His books and articles offer outstanding commentary. You can access his writings in the "Current Events and Culture" section of this blog. Dr. Hanson offers the following thoughts on the...

After the Christmas and New Year's holidays I plan on preaching a series of messages concerning the centrality of the Gospel in the life of the church. I was challenged, therefore, when I read the following post from Ligon Duncan. One of the things I had the pleasure of chatting with Al Mohler...

It's snowing in Houston and New Orleans! Over a million homes from New York to Vermont are frozen and without power! How cold does it have to get before we realize it's getting warmer? When will we learn that the earth's temperature never fluctuated until the invention of the internal combustion...

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R. Scott Clark of Westminster California has written an interesting post dealing with the thoroughly modern character of so-called "post-moderns." I have argued for some time that there is nothing new or "post" about post-modernism. Ignorantly, the leaders of the Emergent Church (MacLaren, Paggit,...

One of my favorite Christmas albums is Andrew Peterson's "Behold The Lamb of God". Your favorites?

"It must be acknowledged...that in much popular Protestantism synergism (salvation through both grace and free will) is even more evident than in Catholicism, and human reason and experience firgure more prominently than Scripture in determining the norms for faith." - Donald Bloesch from God,...

"Christian man was born to be saved. Psychological man is born to be pleased." Philip Rieff from The Triumph of the Therapeutic