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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The Aging Playboy

My commentary for today concerns Hugh Hefner and his 80th birthday, which he marked on Sunday. As I argue there, few individuals have made such an impact on their times. Hugh Hefner is the perfect parable of the pornographic lie -- that the good life ...

April 10, 2006

Jesus Walked on Ice? Another Effort to Deny the Miraculous

The Washington Post reported Thursday that "Israeli and U.S. scientists have come up with a scientific explanation of how Jesus could have walked on water." Ready for this? Their answer: It was actually floating ice. The scientists acknowledge that ...

April 7, 2006

Would Scientists Lie?

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports today that a large percentage of research scientists admit to fabricating or manipulating data because of a sense of "being wronged." Reporter Lila Guterman explains that The Journal of Empirical Research on ...

April 7, 2006

Do Christians Still Believe in the Resurrection of the Body?

A poll undertaken and published by Scripps Howard News Service and Ohio University points to a most interesting finding -- a majority of Americans no longer believe in the resurrection of the body. As Thomas Hargrove and Guido H. Stempel IIII report ...

April 7, 2006

“The Gospel of Judas” — A Challenge to Classical Christianity?

Today's commentary, "From Traitor to Hero? Responding to 'The Gospel of Judas,'"should offer some assistance as Christians attempt to wade through all the media attention devoted to the publication of The Gospel of Judas. I also discussed this issue ...

April 7, 2006

Lessons From History About Marriage and Family

Allan Carlson of the Howard Center in Rockford, Illinois, offers insights into the historical context of our controversies over marriage and family in "The Family Factors," published in Touchstone Magazine. His conclusion: And so, I offer you again ...

April 7, 2006

From Mother and Father to Progenitor A and Progenitor B — A Sign of the Times

"Spain has taken another step in its journey from conservative to liberal bastion by creating new birth certificates to avoid discrimination against same-sex couples," reports The Telegraph [London]. In an official state bulletin, the Spanish govern ...

April 6, 2006

Liberal Christianity and the Religious Left — A Typology for Our Times?

Steven Waldman, editor in chief of Beliefnet, offers a survey of the religious left at Slate.com. He divides the left into five groups: "Bible-thumping liberals," "pious peaceniks," "ethnic churchgoers," "conflicted Catholics," and and "religious fem ...

April 6, 2006

Is the Problem Cultural or Chemical? What’s Happening to Boys?

Leonard Sax, author of the forthcoming book, Boys Adrift, argues in The Washington Post that boys and young men are falling far behind young women in terms of achievement and motivation. The article deserves attention. Some excerpts: This phenomeno ...

April 6, 2006

What’s Going on in France?

Scenes of urban mayhem filled the cable news programs in recent days as university students and their allies filled the streets of Paris with rioting and protests. The students want no changes to France's impossible and impractical labor laws -- law ...

April 5, 2006