Yesterday, believers around the world gathered in local assemblies to celebrate the resurrection of the God-Man, Jesus Christ, from the dead. The Christian celebration originates from the belief that the Second Person of a Triune God – who had previously and eternally been spirit – took on the flesh of humanity by making himself an … Read more
Ever since Russell Moore, the leftist communitarian and former Democratic staffer, took control of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, it has focused less and less on the topic of abortion. The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) is the entity of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) that are supposed to be … Read more
You can read more about Kyle J. Howard here, if you aren’t already familiar with him. For lack of a more concise summary, Howard is a man of white and black ancestry who was born and raised with the silver spoon of privilege in an affluent Atlanta neighborhood, and his parents were both attorneys. Howard … Read more
Steven Anderson is a fiery and controversial preacher from Tempe, Arizona, where he pastors Faithful Word Baptist Church. Anderson has been a public figure for some time, making the news for praying imprecatory prayers against President Obama, seeming pleased by the shooting at the Orlando gay night club, and perhaps most famously, getting tased by … Read more
The topic of abortion seems always to be at the forefront of American political and religious discourse. Each year, millions of dollars and man-hours are spent lobbying both for and against the so called “right” for a woman to choose to terminate her pregnancy along with the life within her womb. At the forefront of … Read more
Two pieces of significant abortion legislation have been signed this week. The first bill was signed Wednesday by North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum. The bill HB 1546 which prohibits human dismemberment abortion is now a Class C felony and will carry a maximum up to five years in prison and/or a fine of ten thousand … Read more
I should’ve written about this days ago, or had someone on my staff write about it, but I’ve been busy with the new webcast set-up (it looks awesome, by the way) and preparing our church’s disaster trailer to haul off to do its thing this flood season. Thankfully, Julie Roys was on it, who is … Read more
[Josh Hammer | The DAILYWIRE] On Saturday, CBS News posted a rather unusual story that seems to mollycoddle and glorify a group of individuals of a rather unique “profession”: Human smugglers. Yes, really. Per CBS News: Along the Panama-Colombia border lies 60 miles of dense forest where smugglers known as coyotes guide migrants seeking passage north, for the … Read more
Baptist Press has reported that Arkansas pastor and former Southern Baptist Convention President Ronnie Floyd is to be nominated as the next President of the SBC Executive Committee on Tuesday, April 2nd. Here are three things you need to know about Ronnie Floyd: In 1997 Floyd’s book The Power of Prayer and Fasting was published … Read more
[Aliya Kuykendall | The Stream] American taxpayer dollars will not be used to underwrite abortions,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in briefing from the State Department Tuesday. Pompeo made two announcements Tuesday morning concerning the State Department’s efforts to make sure that U.S. taxpayer dollars are not used to either subsidize or promote abortions. … Read more
The gay priest who writes for The Gospel Coalition (where he is also an editor) and regularly teams up with SBC leaders like Russell Moore, Danny Akin, and Jason Allen, retweeted praise earlier this month for an article lauding Nadia Bolz-Weber’s infamous ‘vagina statue.’ The gay priest in question, Sam Allberry, was also recently endorsed … Read more
There is no question as to exactly from where the new emphasis on Social Justice is coming from in American Evangelicalism. Whatever you want to say about Social Justice, whatever your position, and however you feel about it, you must acknowledge that the emphasis on righting perceived cultural wrongs as a new addendum to the … Read more
Imagine your daughter comes into your room, crying. She had been engaged in premarital sexual activity for some time, but has hid it from you. After engaging in a night of ‘unprotected’ sex, she panicked and took a chemical agent designed to murder her child. She took the ‘Abortion Pill,’ but regrets it. There’s still … Read more
The Bible’s teaching on separating from gross heretics, false prophets, and theological swindlers couldn’t be more clear. It shouldn’t surprise us that charismatics like Francis Chan, who already deny the Bible’s sufficiency, might readily be willing to deny the Bible’s authority as well. Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus … Read more
James MacDonald taught frequently about financial giving and promised that God would return a financial reward. As the Elephant’s Debt exposed the amount of debt and financial waste at MacDonald’s church and others blew the whistle on MacDonald’s extravagant lifestyle, it now makes more sense. Certain Harvest Bible Chapel members, however, are demanding a refund … Read more
