On August 21, 2024, Tom Raabe published an article on the American Spectator website entitled, How a Church Fought Back Against a Liberal Takeover—And Won. In his article, he tells the story of the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church and its battle with theological liberalism within the denomination. The story reminded me that every generation of…
Our subject for the podcast is the July/August edition of FrontLine Magazine, on the subject: God, the Christian, and Human Government. In this political season, this issue of the magazine addresses many questions about the Christian relationship to government. All the articles were very thought-provoking to me. I’ve interviewed several of the authors, still trying…
This blog series is adapted from Sunday School lessons I wrote several years ago for women and teen girls. The goal was to form a “theology of woman” by looking chronologically at all of the major portions of Scripture regarding women and womanhood. What does the Bible say are the roles, duties, challenges, and opportunities…
I wanted to share some reflections that have been on my heart this week, prompted by the recent passing of my grandfather. At 93 years old, we knew his time was drawing near, yet facing death still brings a mix of emotions. It reminded me of the challenging realities of the brevity of life we…
Today, I am happy to present another of the preaching sessions from our 2024 annual meeting held at Tri-Cities Baptist Church in Westminster, Colorado. I am publishing this on Wednesday, as a bonus episode. Saturday we will give you one of our FrontLine interviews from the current issue. The theme for our meeting was “Called…
Back in 1936, a church group financed a movie intended to be a morality tale warning about the dangers of smoking marijuana. The film’s acting and production quality were both so poor that today the film is occasionally shown on cable television as satire. Reefer Madness is now a vehicle for mockery for any who…
The name of God reveals much of the kind of being God is. The sheer simplicity of the term “I AM” or “He is” belies how many layers of meaning it has. Aseity,1 eternity, immutability, simplicity, and tri-unity are implicit in the term. So, too, is the idea of infinity. To say I AM THAT…
Which of these election issues is more important to a believer? For the past 50 years, many Christians focused their political choices on one issue — abortion. It is not hard to see why. Killing the unborn matters to God. Governments are supposed to protect the weak and murder — abortion — matters to the…
Today, I am happy to present one of the preaching sessions from our 2024 annual meeting held at Tri-Cities Baptist Church in Westminster, Colorado. Our theme was “Called to Summit” and each speaker gave a message related to one of the mountains mentioned in the New Testament. Today’s message comes from Pastor Stephen Van Gelderen,…
Paul prays that Jesus and the Father would “comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word” (2 Thess 2:16–17) and “direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ” (2 Thess 3:5). From these prayers, we see that God desires our hearts to increase in comfort,…