Those of us pastoring churches in Canada find it strange to have American’s paying attention to the goings on around here. Part of the big story of the last year (the Covid Crisis) is the arrest of Canadian pastor James Coates in Alberta for defying Public Health orders. On Proclaim & Defend, we’ve covered the…
Not having taste or smell has been one of the strangest experiences of my life. I had no symptoms of Covid until I couldn’t smell garlic bread! It’s been three months. I have resorted to drinking tea in the mornings and really praying over certain foods I trust are still good. It has been nearly…
What else comes from Chicago besides hotdogs and deep-dish pizza? Back in 1978 in the Windy City, 268 evangelical scholars signed on the line to affirm their belief in the doctrine of inerrancy. Inerrancy means the Bible is free from error.1 They called the document they signed the “Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy.” I’ll spare…
Stumbling into my father’s morning prayers… When I was about 14 yrs. old, we lived in a two-story ranch-style home the bedrooms, living room, and kitchen were upstairs, and the basement featured a large open all-purpose room. Early one morning I walked down the stairs to the basement. As I reached the bottom, I took…
There are some uncomfortable facts that came out this past week about the Atlanta shooter, Aaron Long. He was an active member of a Southern Baptist church. He had a sex problem that included pornography and visiting massage parlors. He had been treated in an in-patient program for sex addiction. And yet, he was a…
During my time as president of Bob Jones University, I have rarely taken the opportunity to communicate directly with you concerning a legislative issue; however, I believe it is a necessity to contact you regarding the Equality Act (H.R. 5) that has passed the U.S. House of Representatives and will soon be debated in the…
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. I Peter 1:13 This is obviously written to believers, obedient children in verse 14. The unsaved cannot think in terms of the vertical, only…
Theology in 300 Seconds (give or take) [follow link to video, previous article here] “The B-I-B-L-E, Yes that’s the book for me.” What about you? The Bible is the Word of God. Jesus is the “Word of God” and “the Word” (Rev. 19:13; John 1:1). The “Word of God” also includes those words God has…
Applying principles of separation is a tricky task. Hashing that out for my generation must be done, but it is beyond my purpose—or my word count. I would like to bring to light just one Scripture and apply it in such a way as to show how I believe the historic fundamentalist position lends itself…
It is very hard to offer a critique of present-day evangelicalism because it has no clear identity. This has been the case for the last 30 years. David Wells described the meaninglessness of the word evangelical in his 1992 work No Place for Truth, or, Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology (Eerdmans). As evangelicalism has continued…