Month: January 2013
By David Kowalski I have devoted a good deal of time to studying revivals and I think most Christians don’t realize we are living in the time of history’s greatest one. Sadly, for those of us in the West, we are not participants.…
Read more I don't pretend that the material below proves a young earth, but I do think it shows the young earth view is more respectable than many people think.
We need not fear that Christian admonition will make saved people sin all the more.
Being an active part of a community of believers requires maturity.
Though I don't even recall the exact year of this experience, I have never forgotten the lesson I learned through it.
The issue of economic justice is hotly debated in the church.
While Scripture does not provide us with an economic system that all cultures of all times are required to implement, it does reveal many principles that will help us identify a just economic system, as well as just economic behavior by individuals.
Why do we consider one thing more beautiful than another, and how can it be that, allowing for some differences in taste, we have a commonly shared sense of beauty? Secularists struggle with this mystery but Scripture reveals the answer.
Some interpreters have been confused by the various, biblical uses of "repent" with regard to God. Does God repent and if so of what? What do we make of passages that say God cannot repent? The passages considered in their contexts and subsequently compared harmonize to clearly present important, biblical truth.
The Louie Giglio affair seems to represent a kind of watershed moment for North American culture. Secular culture no longer seems content with Christians tolerating behaviors; it now seems we must think the right thoughts about them and lend our approval. How should Christians respond?
Karl Barth rescued theology from classic liberalism but at what price? His theology is once again gaining major attention, although this time the early, Evangelical critiques have been largely dismissed from any discussion of Barth as caricatures of Barth's intent.
Are the early critiques flawed, or should we learn from them to take a more cautious look at the work of this theological giant?
