Prominent Southern Baptist Pastor Thabiti Anyabwile, who changed his name from Ron Burns to identify with the Nation of Islam black nationalist movement, demonstrated in a recent tweet, that not even militant atheists such as the late Christopher Hitchens are off limits when it comes to gaining allies for his political agenda. I did not think … Read more
It’s not actually a church. Or a religion. At least, not yet Near the town of Lewiston, Maine there is a recovery coach, Jesse Harvey aka “Narcan Jesus” who has become the face of the provocatively named Church of Safe Injection. Jesse himself is a recovering addict from alcohol, opioids, and methamphetamine, and went through … Read more
Angels We Have Heard on High is a classic Christmas Hymn that tells the story, as recounted in Luke 2, of the chorus of angels that appeared in the region of Bethlehem to announce Christ’s birth and proclaim God’s glory. Let it Go is the most popular song from the hit Disney animated film Frozen. It tells the story of a queen … Read more
Apple has removed the Living Hope Ministries app from their app store. This removal stems from a complaint, an online petition from the radically progressive LGBTQ group Truth Wins Out. The group claims that the app is spreading “homophobic garbage and hate.” In defense of the app Ricky Chelette, the executive director of Living Hope … Read more
[One News Now] Goodluck Jonathan, the former president of Nigeria who is a Christian, has charged former President Barack Obama with facilitating the persecution of Christians by intervening in the nation’s politics so that he was replaced by the African nation’s current president, Muhammadu Buhari – a Muslim under whom mass carnage has been waged … Read more
Recently, the Times of India reported that the Ahmedabad-based cult, Swaminarayan Gadi Sansthan has bought a 30-year-old church in Portsmouth, Virginia with plans to convert it into a Swaminarayan temple of pagan worship. The Portsmouth church is not the first to be converted into a Hindu center of pagan idolatry. This seems to be the start of … Read more
JD Greear is the President of the Southern Baptist Convention and the pastor of The Summit Church, a nine campus church based in North Carolina. This Sunday, his church won’t be meeting. Greear has encouraged his congregation to worship at home. There are no services at our campus locations this weekend. This is a great … Read more
Today’s College Football Playoff features four of the nation’s most heralded quarterbacks: Tua Tagovailoa of the University of Alabama, Trevor Lawrence of Clemson University, Ian Book of Notre Dame, and Kyler Murray of the University of Oklahoma. There is a good chance that, when the dust settles and a champion is crowned, one of these … Read more
[Ethics Daily] The second meeting of the third phase of international ecumenical conversations between the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity took place Dec. 10-14 in Rome at the Domus Internationalis Paulus VI. The Baptist delegation was led by co-chair Frank Rees, associate professor and chair of the academic … Read more
“So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord had spoken to Moses, and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Thus the land had rest from war.” Joshua 11:23 This post is the twenty-second in a series that addresses a list of “40 … Read more
Who is the worst Christian of 2018? On the surface, this seems like a foolish or even pharisaical question. The fact of the matter is that there are none worthy to stand righteous before God except his perfect son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Every believer struggles with sin every day and will continue to do … Read more
It is common, at Christmas time, for globalists to repeat the narrative that the Christ-child was an illegal refugee. The desire to end the nation-state would betray their hope for individual liberty and civil rights, as such things are not guaranteed in their international communitarian utopian hope. However, it’s our goal as polemicists to set-right … Read more
With “Reformed” Christians gradually getting less and less Reformed all the time, it’s important to set matters straight on Mary’s supposed status as “Mother of God.” While Reformed believers across the West are becoming more Catholic (celebrating Lent, for example) and its leaders (like Tim Keller, for example) claiming that the Papists are Christians, it’s … Read more
[Yahoo News] Witchcraft is thriving in the US, with an estimated 1.5 million Americans now identifying as witches – more than the total number of Presbyterians. As Christianity declines across the country, paganism has swung to the mainstream, with witchcraft paraphernalia for sale on every high street and practises normalised across popular culture. In the … Read more
[Religion News Service] NASHVILLE, Tenn – The sounds of the season filled the halls of the Scarritt Bennett Center at Vanderbilt University on a recent Sunday morning. In the chapel, a congregation of about 80 people gathered, while the band launched into a holiday classic: “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch.” They followed up with … Read more
