Russell Moore speaking alongside Nancy Pelosi really isn’t a stretch of the imagination. Moore, a former Democractic staffer, has done everything in his power to be as fierce a critic of President Trump as the Speaker of the House. From calling a border wall a “Golden Calf” to serving on George Soros’ Evangelical Immigration Table, … Read more
January 30, 2019 [The Washington Times] Virginia Republicans defeated Tuesday a bill loosening abortion restrictions after the sponsor admitted that the legislation would allow the procedure even after the mother went into labor. A House subcommittee voted 5-3 to table H.R. 2491, called the Repeal Act, with all Republicans voting to table it and all Democrats voting … Read more
[OneNewsNow] The president of the Southern Baptist Convention says “white privilege” exists – and that the job of Christians is to spread the privilege to those who have less. A Christian apologist, though, is taking issue with those comments. In a recent podcast titled “Is white privilege real?,” Pastor J.D. Greear defines privilege as “a kind of … Read more
Among other outlets, Yahoo News has reported that President Donald Trump gave his endorsement to recent state-level initiatives to teach “Bible Literacy” classes in public schools. Trump’s statement has generated a fair amount of controversy, not only among secularists, but Christians as well. While many secularists are openly hostile to the biblical message, some Christians … Read more
[Thirty Pieces of Silver] On Sunday January 27th 2019, the spread of the the controversial Revoice conference movement “promoting LGBT+ flourishing ” in the PCA was confirmed. Grace Church Seattle (PCA) proudly announced it was hosting Revoice founder Nate Collins and Vice President Stephen Moss in its Sunday services. “Revoice VisitJanuary 25-27th 2019The weekend of … Read more
[The American Conservative] If you’ve ever been to a Donald Trump rally, you’ll notice it doesn’t match the impression left by the media coverage of the president’s base. Anger, for instance, isn’t the prevailing mood. Hopefulness is more characteristic. But there’s more. There’s something about these rallies that goes beyond politics, and his harshest critics have … Read more
The state of New York made big news last week when it passed the Reproductive Health Act, effectively decriminalizing the act of abortion up until the point of birth. The state’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, celebrated his government’s wicked action by directing the spire of One World Trade Center to be lit up pink. Nearly lost … Read more
Daily Herald Editor’s Note: WLS radio personality Mancow Muller of Wilmette has attended Harvest Bible Chapel since 2014 and been friends since 2016 with founding pastor James MacDonald, a nationally known church leader and preacher. Muller has been outspoken in recent weeks about the controversy at the suburban network of megachurches that led to MacDonald … Read more
I’ve written a number of thoughtful posts examining the futility of marking Social Justice as a grievous evil while yet embracing its most prolific proponents. These included The Dallas Statement is Dead and John MacArthur Killed It, Would Spurgeon Attend G3 (I especially hoped Johnson would respond to this as a Spurgeon connoisseur, but he … Read more
[Reformation Charlotte] On January 24, Thabiti Anyabwile was invited to deliver the chapel service at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Anyabwile began the sermon with a historical comparison of abortion to various other holocausts such as the African slave trade and the Jewish holocaust, rightly marginalizing abortion as having a far greater death toll than any … Read more
All we hear from the ‘woke’ Social Justice Warrior in evangelicalism is about how important it is to “engage culture.” WorldMag accused Phil Johnson of not wanting to engage culture, which is an old canard used against those of us who want to preach the Gospel rather than preach Social Religion. In reality, however, when … Read more
Like many others, I can still remember exactly where I was and what I was doing on 9/11. I was a sophomore in college, living in Athens, Georgia. The 2nd hijacked plane crashed into the World Trade Center just after I got back home from my first class of the day. I watched thousands of … Read more
No one who spoke at the G3 Conference alongside the Rauschenbuschists wanted to interact with my post on why Spurgeon would not attend G3. They did not interact with the article because they could not. It was indisputable. While these men claim the heritage of Spurgeon, they ignore his absolute detestation of partnering with compromise … Read more
[Lifesite News] BEIJING, January 18, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – As it arrests Christian pastors, vandalizes or destroys Christians churches, and demands control over Christian leaders, the Chinese government is also altering Christian scriptures to suit its tastes. In 2018, the Communist Chinese government embarked on a five-year plan to make Christianity more compatible to what it … Read more
[Julie Roys] John Secrest, the founding pastor of Harvest Bible Chapel Naples, today announced that he wants his church back. In an email to his congregation, Secrest said that he had asked top leadership at Harvest Bible Chapel in Chicago to reverse their decision to allow Pastor James MacDonald to preach at the Naples church amid swirling controversy. He said … Read more
