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Haiti was recently hit by the largest earthquake in nearly a hundred years. Here’s what Pat Robertson had to say about it: I’ve heard many atheists and anti-Christians take Pat’s comments above as reinforcements to support their belief that Christians are intolerant, bigoted, and wholly devoid of compassion. It’s this group of people I want [...]
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I ran across this video recently wherein a panel of muslims discusses the proper way to go about beating your wife. As surprising as this revelation may be to those of us who are instructed to love our wives as Christ loved his Church it shouldn’t be considering that Muhammad prescribed the beating of disobedient wives in [...]
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Recently our small church decided to take on the controversial topic of homosexuality. Not in spite of the controversy, but because of it. Now I realize that many of you will read that and think that we are intentionally trying to be divisive and unloving but the reality is that our goals are quite the [...]
To answer the question of whether Christians can, with honesty and clarity of conscience (not to mention with Biblical warrant) support and even promote the death penalty we must first make a distinction between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of the world. Greg Boyd calls them “the kingdom of the cross” and the “kingdom of [...]
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I was recently asked on twitter about my view of salvation and how I viewed it in light of my recent postings on Molinism. My simple, twitterish, response was: “I believe that the Holy Spirit moves on, prompts, and draws all men to Christ. This prompted an email from one reader who wanted to probe [...]
A friend of mine recently asked, “What is simple church and how is it different than what we normally call ‘church’?” Simple church is a pretty broad term and is rather hard to nail down. I think the best place to begin is to say that the aim (at least in the one I am [...]
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