The recent death of Pete Rose has rekindled a decades-old debate about his place in the Baseball Hall of Fame. “Charlie Hustle” was indisputably one of the greatest baseball players of all time. Some argue that he was the greatest. However, despite being named an All Star seventeen times and holding the MLB record for…

Jordan Petersen is doing a series on the Gospels on the Daily Wire. The discussion panel consists of Jordan Peterson (a Canadian psychologist and social philosopher who admittedly is not a born-again believer), Dennis Prager (a religious Jew, founder of Prager U), Robert Barron (Roman Catholic bishop, philosopher, and evangelist for the Catholic Church), Johnathan…

Our episode this time turns to the November/December edition of FrontLine, which came out on this theme: The Thinking Christian. Our first interview is with a man who is a long-time friend of mine, David Potter. Our first meeting was almost thirty years ago in Alameda, California. He served with the same mission board as…

Ever since its inception, Israel has never been a fully believing nation. Some of the Israelites were believers, however. Abraham has always had a spiritual offspring among his physical descendants (Rom 9:6–7). Even in the darkest chapters of Israel’s history, so it is today—“there is a remnant” (Rom 11:5; cf. 11:3–4). Generally speaking, however, Israel…

At the close of a recent church service a teenager told me, “I had a hard time staying awake while you were preaching.” I did not tell him that I already knew it. Few realize that the pastor on the platform sees the passing notes, the fixation on the cell phone, and the drooping heads.…

Part of Christian parlance is to speak of “the ministry” or “the minister” to refer to a set of professional religious activities and the professionals so employed. That’s a rather unfortunate happenstance of how religious terms develop, because ministry refers to everything Christians do to build up the body of Christ: “…the work of ministry…

I’m assuming you have read my previous article, Following Christ Together: Solitary Christianity is Not Genuine Christianity. What did you think of it? I envisioned two groups of people would read it. Some of you aren’t committed to a local church. You read the article, you saw the Scripture passages, and it all made sense.…

The Thinking Christian: Biblical Wisdom in an Emotionally Driven World FRONTLINE Volume 34 • Number 6 From my earliest memories, Thanksgiving and Christmas have been some of the most delightful moments of my life. I must immediately thank my godly parents for being the wellspring of that delight. I love Christmas! I suspect that when most…

This is the last of three parts in a series. For the first and second posts, click here and here. The Trial of Your Faith Suffering looms large in the epistle of 1 Peter. This epistle was written during the reign of the notoriously ruthless Roman emperor Nero. While it appears that Peter’s readers were…

Thanksgiving. “Praise is the rent we owe to God, and the larger the farm the larger the rent. The Lord has many fine farms from which He receives little rent.”1 Psalm 105 Oh give thanks to the Lord, call upon His name; Make known His deeds among the peoples. Sing to Him, sing praises to…