10 questions with John MacArthur

I doubt any person has influenced my understanding of Christianity and preaching more than John MacArthur. A series of MacArthur’s audio cassette tapes loaned to me by a former missionary to Brazil opened my mind and heart and understanding to the concept that the glory of God is central to everything. That must have been [...]

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Christmas and Obedience

You better watch out / You better not cry / Better not pout / I’m telling you why / Santa Claus is coming to town He’s making a list / And checking it twice / Gonna find out who’s naughty and nice / Santa Claus is coming to town He sees you when you’re sleeping [...]

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Do we really believe what we say we believe?

We Southern Baptists say that the Bible is without error, that it is God’s authority over our lives, and that it is sufficient for leading us to God and rightly ordering our lives. I wonder, though, if we really believe what we say we believe. It seems that we have our belief system that we [...]

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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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