Below are the sections I found in Tocqueville's Democracy in America that are both interesting and relevant to contemporary discussions on American Christianity. Comment below if you know of other relevant passages I should excerpt. On Christian Influence in America Excerpted from Book I, Chapter XVII, Part II The sects which exist in the United…
I have an article coming out later this year in the Journal for the Evangelical Theological Society on Jesus's use of salt and light imagery in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew's gospel. I have been given permission to distribute a PDF version of the article, linked underneath the article's abstract below. I pray…
Last month, I was asked to contribute an article to Christ Over All on the theme of confessionalism in the SBC. If you haven't checked this ministry out, you really should. They are doing great work. Here's an excerpt from my article. Click the link to read the whole thing: This is the purpose of…
Yesterday I had the opportunity to go on Washington Watch, a program of the Family Research Council (FRC), to talk about Biden and the radical Left's LGBT agenda. https://youtu.be/Ysvyr4uh9MQ?si=ixupT5V3-RMk1675 Every worldview answer four basic questions: Origin: Where did I come from? Identity: Who am I? Meaning: Why am I here? Purpose: How should I live?…
Yesterday, on the day Christians around the world celebrated Easter, Joe Biden decided to make this absurd declaration to amplify so-called Transgender Day of Visibility: https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1774511985700352189 The Left's unholy alliance with radical LGBT ideology and uncompromising pro-abortion politics demonstrate they are at war with Nature and Nature's God. This is not a war they will…
Dr. Albert Mohler joined Denny Burk and me at the Kenwood Institute on Friday, February 16th for a conversation on the state of the SBC. We covered everything from the Law Amendment, confessionalism in Baptist life, the Cooperation Study group, the Abuse Reform Implementation Task Force (ARITF), and the SBC Executive Committee. We pray it…
As a young boy, I always felt like I held the ultimate trump card when the inevitable playground argument came up over whose dad was the best. Why? My dad used to be an F-15 pilot. As a professional pilot, my dad has logged countless hours in the air. One of the things we’ve talked…
In his minority dissent in the 2015 Obergefell decision that legalized so-called gay marriage in all fifty states, Chief Justice John Roberts expressed a level of righteous indignation that unfortunately seems to be fading very rapidly from the public square: "The majority’s decision is an act of will, not legal judgment. The right it announces…
Half of parenting is shaping who or what your children look to for approval. Christian parents: if you can train your children not to give a fig what the world thinks — which will include the vast majority of their peers — you are doing well. This doesn’t predominantly happen through assertion, although that is…
Q: Should I vote yes? A: Yes! We should support any effort that will lead to the reduction and elimination of abortions in this country, because life is a precious gift from God that deserves the full protection of the law.
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