I love you, Lord. Really?

In 1974 Laurie Klein wrote the popular song “I Love You, Lord.” The words are doubtlessly familiar to all of us:
I love, Lord, and I lift my voice
To worship you,
O my soul, rejoice!
Take joy, my King, in what you hear.
May it be a sweet, sweet sound in your ear.
A seminary professor whom I esteem did [...]

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Abortion or murder? A distinction without a difference

If a woman takes her child’s life after he is born, it is murder and she can be prosecuted. If she has her child’s life taken by a certain point after conception, then it is a legal abortion and she is defended for having exercised her “right to choose.”
Check out this report from foxnews.com:
A [...]

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Fellow pastors: Let’s drop some weight

The apostle Paul provided this declaration which, I fear, serves as an indictment against many of us who are ministers of Christ’s gospel: “But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified” (1 Corinthians 9:27 [ESV]). While I doubt that Paul had his body [...]

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What about free will?

One of the main arguments against the Calvinist position on the sovereignty of God in an individual’s salvation is that the Calvinist position violates the principle of free will. After all, God gave every person the right and ability to choose Christ or to reject Christ, right? If God chooses who will be saved, then [...]

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Imitation Christianity

A danger for many Christians is they worry they do not believe in Christ intensely enough. They worry that their faith is not strong enough.
The Bible, though, does not speak of the quantity of our faith. Faith is a resting, a trusting in Christ, a belief that Christ died upon the cross in the place [...]

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Religion: an emotional crutch?

With his sights focused upon Christianity, noted 19th-century revolutionary Karl Marx famously railed that “religion is the opiate for the masses.” Psychologist Sigmund Freud contemptuously opined, “Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed inside us as a [...]

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The sovereignty of God in salvation

Many evangelical Christians verbally affirm the sovereignty of God in all of life, until, that is, the topic of election arises. Then a bit of hedging starts to take place, with something like this being said: “I believe that God is sovereign over all things, but when it comes to election, God has chosen to [...]

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How should we view the gospel ministry?

Opinions are like noses—everybody has one and usually they are different! When it comes to what the ministry is to be in the twenty-first century, many are the opinions people give. Most folks in our day, it seems, have a view of the ministry which likens the pastor to being the chief executive [...]

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Credit card debt and a tightening economy

An Associated Press report, “Credit Card Borrowing Limits Reduced for Tens of Thousands of Consumers,” reveals a growing problem for many Americans:
Just as Americans grow more reliant on credit cards to help pay monthly bills, they’re being hit with a one-two punch: Card companies are reducing borrowing limits for tens of thousands of consumers, which [...]

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