Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. – Psalm 116:15 Unfortunately, Christian apologist Nabeel Qureshi has lost his battle with Stage IV Stomach Cancer. This was confirmed by Qureshi’s longtime friend, David Wood. According to his penultimate vlog, Qureshi had been placed in palliative care, which is a form … Read more
Practicing The Power: Welcoming the Gifts Of The Holy Spirit In Your Life By Sam Storms Foreword by Matt Chandler Page Count: 272 Format: Softcover ISBN: 9780310533849 Published by HarperCollins Publishers/Zondervan Academic Copyright: 2017 by Sam Storms The law of the Lord is perfect,reviving the soul;the testimony of the Lord is sure,making wise the simple;the … Read more
I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another. 1 Corinthians 4:6 The apostle Paul’s emphasized words above are perhaps the greatest Biblical … Read more
Religious Marketing in a Land of Opportunity Before British journalist Christopher Hitchens would ever become known as one of the “Four Horseman”[1] of the New Atheism movement, he was an award-winning, widely-read, globe-trotting journalist. In a 1997 interview with The Progressive, the well-traveled Hitchens was asked why he chose to make his home in the … Read more
“There is no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.” E. B. White E.B. White’s observation of the obvious is assuredly the case when looking at the goings-on of The Salvation Army. Things get very complicated when trying to determine exactly what the Army is and … Read more
Disgraced former pastor of Newspring Church in Anderson, SC, says God is calling him back to the ministry–except this time, he’s in it for the business. After losing his job last year as senior pastor of the seeker-friendly megachurch for years of alcohol-related transgressions, he vowed to return to ministry after a 30-day rehab program … Read more
“This is an affront to the work of Christ on the cross. It’s an affront to the atonement. It’s an affront to the heart of the Gospel itself.” Justin Peters Five chapters into Matthew’s Gospel we’re given the epic teaching of Christ from His Sermon on The Mount. The magnitude of this event, for its … Read more
I don’t read the Christian Post much. It’s littered with advertisements and pop-ups that generally make it a useless and unreadable site. Why anyone would visit this site, or contribute to it, is beyond my feeble comprehension. At any rate, the site is lauded as an evangelical Christian site for the purpose of promoting Christianity. … Read more
[Editor’s Note: The following guest post is by Fred Butler. Re-published here in its entirety, with his permission, it originally appeared on his highly recommended site, Hip and Thigh, “Smiting Theological Philistines With A Great Slaughter (Judges 15:8). We encourage you to bookmark his site, join his email list, and be edified by Fred’s … Read more
Perry Noble recently told his Facebook followers that he has completed alcoholic rehab, and would return to ministry–eventually. Noble, the man who is credited with single-handedly building the seeker-friendly Southern Baptist megachurch, Newspring, in Anderson, SC, was fired from his church. Noble is well known for his faulty biblical exposition, unsound theology, and an anger streak … Read more
A concerned church member of the flagship 2nd Baptist Church in Houston, Texas, has emailed Pulpit & Pen her own concerns regarding Russell Moore, penning this letter to publish in various news outlets and praying others would also see cause for concern. We are happy to publish it at her request and by her permission: … Read more
Sadly, I’ve seen several otherwise ‘solid’ individuals claim that attending a gay wedding (like Karen Swallow Prior has said she would attend under the right circumstances) or a gay wedding reception or after-celebration (like Russell Moore has said he would attend) is a matter of Christian liberty or “Christian conscience.” Is it? Is it really? Very … Read more
THE STATE OF TENNESSEE VS. SCOPES In front of the Rhea County courthouse in Dayton, Tennessee there is a plaque that reads: “Here, from July 10 to 21, 1925 John Thomas Scopes, a County High School teacher, was tried for teaching that a man descended from a lower order of animals in violation of a … Read more
