Archive for category: Christian Worldview

William Dembski posted this parody on his blog. I found it very fitting on the morning after seeing the second hour of The Book of Daniel last night. I had not intended to watch it, though I had heard all about the furor over it. I simply do not watch a lot of television. But someone in channel mentioned that

This article by David Kupelian (hat tip: Nina) touches on some very important issues regarding the shameless propoganda coming out of Hollywood in the form of Brokeback Mountain. It is well worth the read. Add to this well written and insightful article the fact that most “evangelicals” could not explain the why of the Bible’s prohibition of homosexuality (let alone

The pressure is neither subtle nor hidden, but it is all pervasive. If you believe Jesus Christ lives, that as the second Person of the Trinity, the eternal Son, He entered into creation itself a few hundred generations ago in Israel, lived and died and rose again, and rules and reigns in your heart through His Spirit, joining you to

There have been a number of times I have simply wanted to say, “Pat, just SHUT UP.” Pat Robertson’s ability to stick his foot in his mouth is legendary, of course. Being on the air daily surely increases your chances of foot-in-mouth disease, and I honestly do try to keep that in mind when evaluating his commentary. But I guess

One of the most eloquent testimonies to the error of Dan Brown and the ridiculous and outrageous claims of TDVC regarding the “creation” of the deity of Christ by Constantine is found in the sermon on the Passover preached around twenty years before the end of the second century by Melito, bishop of Sardis. I included my translation of this

When men and women suppress the knowledge of God, twisting the image of God out of shape, their minds are darkened (Romans 1:18ff). The gross inconsistencies that result are striking to those who are not blinded by their hatred of God (Psalm 68:1). For example, today we hear choruses of voices of those who seek to maintain the barbaric practice

The fact that homosexual activists are seeking to make themselves a super-minority with super-rights far beyond anything that could be dreamed of by us average citizens has been illustrated yet once again. Not only are these folks behind the outrageous denial of justice that parades under the title “hate crimes legislation” (those laws that allow judges and juries to look

Someone in channel kindly pointed me to the blog of LaShawn Barber who made reference to my comments on Katrina and culture in general from the DL last Thursday. Hey, great to know someone outside the chat channel is listening! Thanks, LaShawn!

Just a few selected quotes from John Dominic Crossan’s Who Is Jesus? “Do I personally believe in an afterlife? No, but to be honest, I do not find it a particularly important question one way or the other.” “Moreover, an atonement theology that says God sacrifices his own son in place of humans who needed to be punished for their

2 Chr. 19:6-7 He said to the judges, “Consider what you are doing, for you do not judge for man but for the LORD who is with you when you render judgment. Now then let the fear of the LORD be upon you; be very careful what you do, for the LORD our God will have no part in unrighteousness

Jeff Downs sent over this link to a brief reply to “Emergent Church Apologetics.” Post-modernism in all its forms is battery-acid to apologetics, and truly leaves the believer without any foundation to fulfill the commandment of God to give an answer.

Every day it is thrown in your face. A small minority group–extremely small, maybe 3% of the popoulation en toto, demanding that you not only allow for their sexual perversion, but, more so, that you abandon any way of thinking— religious, moral, social—that would say that their perversion is anything but good and moral. Out of the half dozen examples

Blessed is the nation whose God is Jehovah, The people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance. (Psalm 33:12) Righteousness exalts a nation, But sin is a disgrace to people. (Pro. 14:34) The wicked freely strut about when what is vile is honored among men. (Psalm 12:8)

Most everyone has already seen this, but I thought I’d join the wave….Joel Osteen, pastor of one of the largest “evangelical” churches in all of America, was on Larry King a few nights ago. Can you just imagine Paul or John responding to these direct questions the way Osteen did? What a wonderful opportunity to present the awesome holiness of

The United Church of Christ, the denomination in which Barry Lynn is a minister (the same Barry Lynn I debated on the issue of homosexuality a few years ago), is currently debating, and will probably reject, a resolution simply stating that Jesus is the Lord. Here’s a quick summary. There should be some means of burying the corpses of former

When I travel I try to remember to bring some extra “Precious Feet” with me to give to the pastors of the churches where I’m ministering. The Precious Feet are the international pro-life symbol, and you will note that unless I forgot to put one back on after having my suit coat pressed, I have one on my lapel when

First, read Matthew 19:3-6. Then read this. Then read Romans 3:10-18. God’s judgment, illustrated, and another reminder: judges need a divine standard upon which to judge. God has given it. Woe to those who ignore it.

I’m looking forward to the release of a new book from Solid Ground by Timothy Dwight. If you are unfamiliar with the name, he was the grandson of Jonathan Edwards. You may have read about how Edwards’ off-spring filled many important posts, and included many scholars and men and women of importance. But surely his greatest legacy outside of his

For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the

I only got to see from about 20 minutes after the hour, but Greg Koukl of Stand to Reason graciously, fairly, kindly, steamrolled Deepak Chopra on Faith Under Fire last night. I mean, it wasn’t even fair. Wasn’t even close. TKO first round, except the fight kept going. I have no idea how Greg managed to wrangle the whole hour—the

In case you didn’t read it, you need to. Chairman Dobson,    I read in today’s newspaper a quote from your organization that said I should be “alarmed about the anti-Catholicism of some of colleagues.”    Your newspaper and radio ads also target Christians like me and Senator Harry Reid. I am proud that Senator Reid is a devout Mormon

The following I snatched from PowerLine (I was going to grab the original LA Times story, but they basically wanted a sample of DNA for their “free” registration, which obviously would have resulted in enough spam to fill a U-Haul, so I skipped it), and it makes me ill: Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said Friday that his party

I have not addressed the Schiavo situation over the past number of months, not because I have not been watching the situation with great interest, but because everyone else has been saying almost everything you could possibly say about it. Now that Mrs. Schiavo has been put to death in the most inhuman possible way (who can argue otherwise? We

   …and that from a Jewish perspective. From World Magazine.

I don’t know how long this link will be valid, but you have probably read about the 3-2 vote of the Colorado Supreme Court throwing out the death penalty conviction of one Robert Harlan all due to the citation of the Bible during the deliberations. Harlan, a murdering rapist thug, deserves the death penalty, but now the citizens of Colorado

I was trying to get a laptop back into a meaningful state of functionality after it was sent back to me by Compaq with its original Win2k installation and nothing more on the hd (i.e., waiting for updates to download, installing virus protection, etc.). So I had the TV in the room on, and was watching a 20/20 program on

I mentioned Steve Camp’s article relating to salvation of infants, etc., on his website on the DL today. Some folks have been having trouble finding it, so I tracked it down for you. Here it is. For those listening to the archive, this was in reference to the call from the kind sister on Staten Island and her work in

A rather unsettling story.

Pro-LIfe Cross Display Vandalized

I was looking at Brian McLaren and postmodernism and the Emergent Church movement a few days ago, and wish to continue with that theme here. In CT an article on “Emergent Evangelism” appeared wherein we read: Making absolute truth claims—so important to evangelism in the modern era—becomes problematic in the postmodern context. Instead, he said, we can focus on recruiting

We have to deal with a spirit, I know not how to denominate it, unless I call it a spirit of moderatism in the pulpits of protestant churches. Men have begun to rub off the rough edges of truth, to give up the doctrines of Luther and Zwingle, and Calvin, and to endeavour to accommodate them to polished tastes. You