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 Blind Man Sees What Others Cannot — The Evil of China’s ‘One Child Only’ Policy

Chen Guangcheng is blind, but the 34-year-old activist is taking on the Chinese government's "one child only" policy. This man sees what others cannot or will not -- the true horror of the Chinese government's anti-human policy. He is organizging C ...

August 27, 2005

More Than One Way to Heaven?

Beliefnet.com has published an exchange on the exclusivity of the Gospel. Bill Haley, pastor of the Coracle Community in Washington, D.C., argues for an inclusivist position. His argument follows the framework common to almost all inclusivist positio ...

August 27, 2005

Religious Liberty and the Muslim World

The protection of religious liberty remains a central concern in Iraq, even as the Iraqis struggle toward a constitutional system. Christianity Today features an important interview with Nina Shea, director of the Center for Religious Freedom at Free ...

August 26, 2005

More Abortions Than Births in Russia

Here is evidence of cultural disaster: Russians, whose lives are shorter and poorer than they were under communism, have more abortions than births to avoid the costs of raising children, Bloomberg.com reported Tuesday quoting the country's highest-r ...

August 26, 2005

JAMA Controversy Expands — Bias? What Bias?

The controversy sparked by the Journal of the American Medical Association receives more attention today. JAMA published an article that reported on research claiming that fetuses feel no pain until at least the 29th week of gestation. [See article b ...

August 26, 2005

What’s Emerging from the Emergent Church?

Jeffrey Jue, Assistant Professor of Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary, has written a thoughtful analysis of the Emergent church movement. "What's Emerging in the Church?" is published at reformation21, the online magazine of the Alli ...

August 26, 2005

Scandal at the Journal of the American Medical Association

An undisclosed conflict of interest related to abortion is fueling controversy at the Journal of the American Medical Association. Here is the lead from an article in today's edition of The New York Times: "Two of five authors of an article published ...

August 26, 2005

Are Humans Special? Another Inescapable Question

The Bible clearly and unambiguously reveals that human beings are special creatures --the only creature made in the image of God. That claim is now a focus of the evolution debate, as is made clear in a recent op-ed column published in The New York T ...

August 26, 2005

Battle of the Sexes — What Are Little Boys Made Of?

"It is nowadays very difficult for a boy to grow up with masculine honor in this society. For one thing, he is standing at the tail-end of a veritable whirlwind of anti-male sentiment that has been sweeping through the country for decades; although t ...

August 25, 2005

Once again, I had the honor of preaching the Opening Convocation address for The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Boyce College. I preached from 2 Corinthians 4:1-18. The message, "By the Mercy of God: Why Would God Call People Like Us to a ...

August 25, 2005