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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A New Project — “One True God Blog”

My friend Hugh Hewitt has started a new project and he has invited me to be a part of it. "One True God Blog" is a forum for genuine and respectful theological discussion. It's just getting started, but you won't want to miss it. In addition to Hugh ...

September 20, 2005

New Teen Sex Study Raises Difficult Issues

The National Center for Health Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a massive research report on the sexual habits of Americans aged 15 to 44. The most interesting data concerns the teenagers. As reported in The W ...

September 20, 2005

The Age of Polymorphous Perversity, Part Two

For the last half century, the goal of America's cultural elites has been to disconnect Western society from Judeo-Christian morality. By subverting the prevailing norms of marriage, the family, and sexuality, they hoped to establish a new age and cu ...

September 20, 2005

Brave New World Watch — Face Transplants?

Press reports indicate that a leading American medical center, The Cleveland Clinic, is ready to start an experimental program in human face transplantation. This represents a host of truly ominous and complicated ethical issues, ranging from what wo ...

September 19, 2005

Arthur Schlesinger, Reinhold Niebuhr, and the Doctrine of Sin

Historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., one of the paladins of American liberalism, remembers the late Reinhold Niebuhr in Sunday's edition of The New York Times. Schlesinger and his generation were shaped by Niebuhr's "rediscovery" of the doctrine of sin ...

September 19, 2005

The Age of Polymorphous Perversity, Part One

The sexual issues now confronting our nation--from the breakdown of the family to same-sex marriage--are really pieces of a much larger puzzle. In order to understand what is happening, one must look carefully at the entire picture, the entire trajec ...

September 19, 2005

Delaying Babies = Defying Nature and Risking Heartbreak

Here's a bit of common sense verified by science and modern medicine. Delaying marriage often leads to a delay in having babies. Now, BBC News reports that women delaying children until after age 35 are risking both health and heartbreak. Over the la ...

September 17, 2005

Brave New World Watch — Offshore Artificial Insemination Clinics

The Guardian [London} reports: Fertility ships where British couples will be able to receive treatment forbidden in the UK could soon be anchored off the coast in international waters. Entrepreneurs are planning to hire ships to offer treatments that ...

September 17, 2005

The Role She Wants to Fill — Stay-At-Home Mother

Grace Dyck offers a troubling view into her experience as a student in a 'Family Studies" course at the university level. "Finally, I thought. I'll get some solid instruction to aide me as I build a family. Wrong again." She was enrolled in several c ...

September 16, 2005

So Gender Does Matter After All — Even in the Classroom

Newsweek reports that educators are finding that boys and girls learn differently - leading to a reconsideration of educating boys and girls together in the same classroom. In "Boy Brains, Girl Brains," reporter Peg Tyre lays out the story -- and the ...

September 16, 2005