Numbers 14 records a sad day in the life of the people of Israel. God judged them for their unbelief after hearing the spies’ report of the Promised Land. God says that for every day the spies explored, the people would wander in the desert. Joshua and Caleb would be the only ones able to…
Today marks the 400th Anniversary of the publication of the King James Version of the Bible. This is the most popular English version of the Bible. In fact until the mid-20th Century, it was pretty much the only version of the English Bible available. With the advent of the printing press, literate people were able…
I happened upon an interesting blog today: “They Ceased. Period.” It was an interview with Dr. John MacArthur regarding the “charismatic” gifts of the spirit. MacArthur is a cessationist, meaning that he believes that gifts of healing, miracles, tongues, etc. passed away with the First Century Apostles. While I respect Dr. MacArthur’s diligent grammatical study…
Last month, Al Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, blogged about Christians and yoga. The blog caught the attention of many media outlets including USA Today and landed on Yahoo’s front page on October 7 (two and a half weeks after the original blog). In a second blog post, responding to the Yahoo news…
For too long, we have walked a line of not wanting to “offend” people. When will we (US and Christians) stand up and say, “We have had enough of this! We’re not going to take it anymore!”
Perhaps the reason there are no spontaneous outward expressions of excitement in church … is that there is nothing to get excited about.
Or, perhaps there is something to get excited about, but we don’t care because we don’t have “skin in the game”.
