Here are my top 5 books read in 2010. #5. Desire and Deceit: The Real Cost of the New Sexual Tolerance (R. Albert Mohler Jr.) These days it is hard to pick up the newspaper or turn on the television without reading or hearing something about sex, homosexuality, crimes of a sexual nature, sexual acceptance, [...]
We are a media oriented people, much more than we are oriented around books or reading. Rather than having snippets of information spoon fed to us, filtered through someone else’s opinion or interpretation we should go to the source. T. David Gordon writes, “A culture that reads can consider what is significant because reading takes [...]
Author T. David Gordon writes, … I still recall my first experiences, well over a decade ago, at playing what I now call ‘The Airport Game.’ While waiting in an airport for a flight (or while on the flight itself), one often finds oneself chatting with a total stranger. While doing this, I discovered that [...]
The military’s policy of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” has increasingly been under fire over the past few years as homosexuals in the military seek to serve openly. The policy has always been identified with Bill Clinton as the concept and terminology came to pass during his administration. The policy was “cutting edge” at the time [...]
I recently received an email forward, the content of which I first heard used as a sermon illustration more than twenty-five years ago. A fifth grade teacher in a Christian school asked her class to look at television commercials and see if they could use them in 20 ways to communicate ideas about God. The [...]
We once again find ourselves in the midst of a Christmas season and once again in the midst of an ongoing controversy. Christians have come to understand that their religious freedom of expression is under attack each year during the month of December, with no relief in sight. In fact, with each passing year the [...]
Recent changes to the screening process in airports across the country have created huge controversies. News reports and editorials are resounding that people are uncomfortable at best, outraged at worst by these new policies. Many see it as an unnecessary invasion of their privacy. In fact 4th Amendment Constitutional issues have been being raised concerning [...]
Is not morality and holiness just about the same thing? Are not believers to aspire to both? Is not one just as good as the other? Well the truth is they are not really the same thing at all. For starters, we have heard much more about morality than we have holiness. Morality is oriented [...]
Churches vary significantly in size. This past Sunday there were literally churches which met with tens of thousands in attendance and churches that met with les than 10 present. There were no size requirements placed on churches by the New Testament. Instead there was a promise that where two or more are gathered in Christ’s [...]
Have you ever stopped to think about how most American’s contemporary expectation of church compares with the expectations of those in other places around the world and further how they compare with most of America just a few short years ago? You do not have to be very old to recall a day when people [...]