A lion of the pulpit, now in Christ’s presence: The relentless expository passion of John F. MacArthur, Jr., 1939-2025

He was the greatest expositor of his times. One of the ironies of John MacArthur is that, to the end, he insisted that any God-called preacher of the ...

August 14, 2025

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Integrity — What’s in a Word?

According to The Los Angeles Times, scores of United Methodist pastors in Southern California are planning to defy church law by performing same-sex marriages. The paper provides rather extensive detail about these plans, acknowledging that performin ...

July 18, 2008

Modernity, Madness, and Morals

Why do you do what is right, rather than what is wrong? That is hardly a new question. It troubled the minds of the ancients. Some felt that humans are naturally drawn to virtue, but they were hard-pressed to explain why some individuals seemed to re ...

July 14, 2008

At Least for the Moment?

Ellen Goodman is an institution at the Boston Globe and one of the nation's most recognized liberal columnists. She has a keen eye for detail, which often makes her columns interesting, and she is an unreconstructed liberal and feminist, undoubtedly ...

July 11, 2008

What Should We Think About Archaeology and the Bible?

Archaeology is in the news again. An interesting juxtaposition of news stories concerns what might be the boyhood home of George Washington on the Rappahannock River and the claim that a collector has revealed an ancient stone tablet from Israel that ...

July 8, 2008

Just What Are Schools to Do? The Aims and Purposes of Education

Schools are never just about education. For that matter, education is never just about education. The school as an institution is founded and supported as a means to some end. In ancient Israel, education was to produce a faithful member of the chose ...

July 7, 2008

An Argument Worth Defending

This is Albert Mohler for Townhall.com. The American experiment is now 238 years old – at least the way we count it. We date ourselves as a nation to July 4, 1776, even though the Declaration of Independence was actually signed the day before. No mat ...

July 4, 2008

Where Are Europe’s Babies?

"You can't have a country where everybody lives in a nursing home...." The statement, shockingly obvious as it may be, was offered by Carl Haub of the Population Reference Bureau. He was speaking of Europe's looming demographic disaster. As The New Y ...

July 3, 2008

A Worldview Gone to the Dogs . . . Literally

The news out of New York City has to do with Leona Helmsley, a woman whose name (plastered all over Manhattan) became synonymous with the materialistic excesses of the 1980s. Helmsley, who died last August, still manages to make the news -- this time ...

July 2, 2008

A New Search and Destroy Mission

Even before the Nazi Party came to power, the doctors of Weimar Germany began to divide humanity into those who should live and those who should die. They developed the category of "life unworthy of life" in order to designate those whose infirmity, ...

July 1, 2008

A Date with Disaster — Presbyterians Approve Homosexual Clergy

Meeting in San Jose, California, the Presbyterian Church USA, the liberal branch of American Presbyterianism, moved to approve homosexual clergy on June 27, 2008 -- a date that may well mark a final blow against biblical orthodoxy in that denominatio ...

June 30, 2008