On February 17, 2011, Glenn Beck presented a Bible study showing the parallels between the “biblical view of the end times” and the view of the Islamic Twelvers. Why is this important? Because the Twelvers count in their number Mahmoud…
Category: Christianity
Issues and opinions about Christianity
Covenant Description
I have long found the various teachings about God’s covenant to be unnecessarily confusing. For instance, various people have identified the Covenant of Redemption, the Covenant of Grace, the covenant of freedom, and covenant of bondage (also called the covenant…
New Christian Ethic
Guest review by A. T. Ross : Homosexuality: A New Christian Ethic (Cities of the Biblical World) by Elizabeth R Moberly This importance of this book cannot be overestimated. In it Dr. Moberly reassesses the Christian response to homosexuality. By…
The Bible You’ve Never Read
Have you been frustrated in your study of the Bible? Does it seem like you’re getting bits and pieces, but the big picture is just out of focus? Gary DeMar talks to filmmaker Darren Doane about an exciting new project…
Regeneration
Christian Context: Rejecting Christ
Richard Hughes continues his series of articles in the Huffington Post, The Christian Right in Context: Building a Christian America, with a clear statement of his bias. By saying that “There have always been Christians who have resisted religious pluralism…
Christian Context: Short Sheeted
Richard Hughes in a recent article, The Christian Right in Context, Part 1: The Long View (Huffington Post, 11/8/2010) puts conservative Christianity in the context of liberalism. His essay oozes with the liberal righteousness of supposed objectivity, but is blindly…
New Book Released: Colossians – Christos Singularis
Marietta, Ohio, November 17, 2010. This study of Colossians takes the doctrine of the Trinity seriously and applies it broadly. This means that it is assumed it to be true of God, and therefore true of God’s people because people…
Church Failure
Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell wrote an article, Walking away from church, for the LA Times (10/17/2010) summarizing their recent book, American Grace. It seems that churches might want to hear what their research has uncovered. “As recently…
The Moral Landscape
I heard Sam Harris defend his new book, The Moral Landscape, last night on BookTV.Very Interesting. I’ll have to get a copy and read it. From what I could tell, he has borrowed liberally from the biblical Christian perspective, but…