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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So There Are Limits After All

Humanity now stands before a great and unavoidable question -- Do human beings face any natural limits? The rise of new medical and biological technologies threatens to redefine what it means to be human, even as an ideological revolution has led ma ...

June 6, 2007

Avoiding “Nature-Deficit Disorder” — It’s About Theology, Not Therapy

Welcome to summer 2007 and the latest diagnosis of a problem among the younger set -- "nature-deficit disorder." A generation of children is growing up without much contact with nature, or the outdoor world in general. Leave it to Americans to expla ...

June 5, 2007

New Post at Conventional Thinking — “Triumph or Tragedy? A Church Set to Make History”

At Conventional Thinking, my Web site dedicated to issues of concern to the Southern Baptist Convention, there is a major new posting on the First Baptist Church of Decatur, Georgia and the fact that the church is set to elect a woman as pastor on Ju ...

June 5, 2007

The Great Challenge of the Cities — “The World Goes to Town”

The Economist [London], one of the world's great news organizations, publishes several major survey reports each year -- and each is priority reading for the world's leaders. This is certainly true of the most recent survey, "The World Goes to Town," ...

June 4, 2007

What Boys Become Without Male Authority — A Warning From Britain

What happens when boys grow up without the influence of male authority? Stewart Dakers warns that the absence of engaged males in authority -- fathers in particular -- leads to brutal, crude, dangerous, and narcissistic teenage boys and young men. I ...

May 31, 2007

A Transgender Pastor in the Pulpit?

What do you do when your pastor shows up in a new gender? That question is now faced by a United Methodist church in Maryland, and the issue of transgender persons is soon to confront all churches and denominations. As The Baltimore Sun reports, the ...

May 30, 2007

“Promiscuous Teleology” — Is This Why So Many Reject Evolution?

A pair of psychologists at Yale University have a new explanation for why so many people reject the theory of evolution -- our minds are hard-wired from birth to see design in the world around us.  Paul Bloom is a psychologist at Yale and Deena Skoln ...

May 29, 2007

Freedom is Never Free

Here is my Memorial Day radio commentary for Townhall.com [listen here]. May each of you enjoy a happy and fulfilling Memorial Day. Let's pray especially for those who have so recently experienced loss and grief in the course of war. It all started ...

May 28, 2007

The Dangerous Book for Boys

What do boys need to know? That question led brothers Conn and Hal Iggulden to write The Dangerous Book for Boys, and boys of every age will love it. The book took Britain by storm last year, and arrives this year just in time for summer reading. A b ...

May 24, 2007

The Disappearing Father

Is the notion of fatherhood becoming obsolete? Researchers at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in Great Britain say they are on the verge of creating sperm cells from bone marrow. This would allow women to conceive children completely without me ...

May 22, 2007