Stephen Caesar In November 1999, National Geographic published photographs of what it claimed was incontrovertible proof that birds evolved from dinosaurs. In an article titled “Feathers for T. Rex?” the magazine announced, “New Birdlike Fossils Are Missing Links in Dinosaur Evolution” (Sloan 99). The article featured a photograph, taken under ultraviolet light, of a creature…
Mike Stalnaker In the late 1800s, Rowland Prothero compiled instances of how God used the book of Psalms specifically in the lives of people. Prothero divides his book into 12 chapters covering the Psalms from the “Early Ages of Christianity” until the 1900s. His book, The Psalms in Human Life, is the result of his…
Beatrice Ward Christians need to be selective in their reading, and God has given a standard for their selection. If a man sets out to write a pornographic novel and in it uses interesting characters, suspenseful plot, and believable dialogue, has he written good literature? That question was posed to a group of Christian young…
Gordon A. Dickson After the jetliners pierced the World Trade Center in fiery explosions on September 11, 2001, the whole world seemed to be asking, “Why?” What is at the root of these terrible crimes? How can whole groups of people be so devoted to killing others? How does terrorism prosper in a world that…
David Potter A man to whom I have been witnessing told me that he prefers Eastern religions because he does not want a religion that is guilt-based. Christianity is not guilt-based, it is forgiveness-based. In response, I told the following story.
A farewell interview with Dr. G. Beauchamp Vick, the late patriarch of the Baptist Bible Fellowship Richard G. Adams [Proclaim & Defend editorial note: G. Beauchamp Vick was a leader among Fundamentalist Baptists in the middle of the 20th century. He came from the era of ‘big men’ which has been much maligned of late.…
Carl Sebris In 1978 Deng Xiaoping (1904–97) came to power and, as David Aikman writes, “opened China up both to its own latent internal creative energies and to the outside world with his famous ‘open door’ policy.”1 Mao Zedong’s (1893–1976) “Cultural Revolution” (1966–76) had closed China off and isolated the Chinese people from the outside…
Robert Condict A reader might be tempted to quickly gloss over a list of technical terms that relate to our salvation: justification, sanctification, conversion, repentance, election, adoption, perseverance (or was it preservation?). The list may appear to be tedious. Perhaps we should just thank God we are saved. Why make this precious truth any more…
J. C. Ryle: Prepared to Stand Alone Iain H. Murray, Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 2016. 259 pgs. Reviewed by Don Johnson Noted biographer Iain Murray brings us another outstanding piece of work in J. C. Ryle: Prepared to Stand Alone. His book is very readable and presents an objective (but warm) account of the…
Kurt Stephens Any minister of music who could master the question “What are you trying to accomplish?” would truly be successful. Having spent the past eleven years serving as Minister of Music, I can attest that the elements I contribute to my church’s services have been shaped and motivated by many factors. The first of…