If you ever want to know what matters most to someone, simply follow the money. Money represents power and influence. It promises to give you what you want most. The same principle applies to organizations. Whether the budget is personal or public, you can learn a lot about people by looking at the numbers. That’s…
GameStop and Reddit captured recently captured our attention with some craziness involving the stock market. At the beginning of this year—back in January—GameStop stock was selling for under 20 bucks a share. But then it started climbing. There was this whole dynamic of amateur investors battling it out against big-time Wall Street investors. And the…
I think we often take the fact of Christ’s sinlessness for granted. We often emphasize the impeccability of Christ, which means that He could not have sinned. The Bible is clear that Jesus is God. God is perfectly holy, and “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” God cannot sin; therefore, Jesus could…
Paul said it about himself in Romans 7:27. The reality of indwelling sin is something that we all acknowledge but rarely respond to correctly. The word “flesh” has various meanings in scripture ranging from meat, to the human body, to that element of our humanity that has been corrupted by the fall. The idea of…
Besides the Fundamentals, is there anything that all Fundamentalists agree on? The question is facetious … sort of. But somewhere in the tagline of most of our churches are three words: Baptist, Fundamental, and Independent. It’s the ramifications of that last one that this column addresses, especially the hermeneutical ramifications— that is, our differences in…
Last Thursday was a very sad day for the evangelical church. The long-awaited report on the sexual misconduct of Ravi Zacharias was released confirming the worst sort of duplicity and moral failure. For years, Ravi, a well-known international Christian apologist, led a double life. While he presented himself as a pious, Christ-loving disciple, he was…
See here for Part One and here for Part Two Daniel 9:20-23 What should you do when you live in a society characterized by these words: “There is no fear of God before their eyes?” The absence of the fear of God was the unmaking1 of the nation of Israel (Zephaniah 3:7-8). When they began…
This can be a difficult question to answer. In the case of the one who does not have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ the answer is an unequivocal, “Yes!” What about the one who has a personal relationship with Christ? The Psalmist tells us in Ps. 116:15, “Precious in the sight of the Lord…
This one caught me totally by surprise—and it did most people I know. It doesn’t seem right to make accusations about someone after they die, but in this case, the evidence is overwhelming. I am talking about the ministry abuses and immorality of famed Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias. There is no point in going into…