Tara Burton posted an article for Vox today suggesting that Maria Butina (the young Russian woman recently indicted as a spy) used the National Prayer Breakfast to gain access to US Governmental leaders. Burton interviewed Jeff Sharlet regarding one of the most secret and influential Christian organizations in the world. They call themselves The Fellowship…
“Have you ever felt like a goldfish swimming around in a blender full of water – with someone’s finger on the ‘high’ switch? Many of us are altogether too busy, running on overdrive, overextended in our schedules and underdeveloped in our souls. Instead of green pastures and still waters, we’re accustomed to clogged freeways and…
According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption…
Have you ever read your Bible and come across something that bothered you? Something that made you uncomfortable? Something you disagreed with? I hope you have. Many people mistakenly assume that everything they read in their Bibles should line up with how they see the world. God should behave the way they expect him to,…
A.W. Tozer wrote in the preface of his outstanding book, The Pursuit of God (p. 8), “It is a solemn thing, and no small scandal in the kingdom [the church], to see God’s children starving while actually seated at the Father’s table.” What he was getting at was that the preaching of the Word of…
God is still in the soul-saving business, but that does not mean there is no opposition. When Saul and Barnabas entered the court of Sergius Paulus in Paphos on that first missionary journey (Acts 13:4-12), there was no doubt that they were involved in spiritual warfare. I am not trying to sound dramatic, but fundamentalists…
Young-Earth Creationism and Modern Fundamentalism: A Historical Study (Part 3) Analyzing fundamentalism and its relationship to the Young-Earth Creationism (YEC) movement is necessary as both movements interact with another in the present and the future. The driving concern of Fundamentalism remains separation from apostasy and contention for the faith. The driving concern of Young-Earth Creationism…
Young-Earth Creationism and Modern Fundamentalism: A Historical Study (Part 2) The fundamentalist movement began as early as the 1850s. It has been divided into at least a non-conformist period (1850-1930) and a separatist period (beginning in 1930 with solidification by the 1950s). Non-conformist fundamentalism exhibited a practice of fighting falsehood and apostasy within their denominations,…
Young-Earth Creationism and Modern Fundamentalism: A Historical Study (Part 1) The launch of the modern Young Earth Creationist (YEC) movement dates to 1961, with the publication of The Genesis Flood by Dr. Henry M. Morris and Dr. John C. Whitcomb. Dr. Morris began the Institute for Creation Research (ICR) in 1970.1 In 1987, Ken Ham…
There’s a lot of talk about gluttony out there. I mean a lot. Billy Graham wrote a Q&A about it. Joe McKeever rebukes it. John Piper tells people how to conquer it. Rachel Held Evans has compared it to homosexuality, and Kevin DeYoung has weighed in for the Gospel Coalition. Besides articles and blog posts…