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Terror Revisited — Truth Revealed

On September 11, 2011 -- the tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on the United States, I preached the following message at Highview Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky [East Campus]. The message, "Terror Revisited: Truth Rev ...

September 16, 2011

Thrown Over the Fence — Infanticide, Canadian Style

Mark Steyn hit the nail on the head when he accused a Canadian appeals court of allowing for a "fourth-trimester abortion" -- that's right, the killing of a baby that is already born. The case emerged from the Court of Queen's Bench in Alberta, wher ...

September 16, 2011

The Devil is in the Details: Biblical Inerrancy and the Licona Controversy

The affirmation of biblical inerrancy is nothing more, and nothing less, than the affirmation of the Bible's total truthfulness and trustworthiness. The assertion of the Bible's inerrancy -- that the Bible is "free from all falsehood or mistake" -- i ...

September 14, 2011

Truth-Telling in a Time of Tragedy: September 11, 2001

[This message was preached on September 13, 2001--two days after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2011. It is republished in commemoration of the tenth anniversary of those attacks. An extended reflection on these events from the perspective of ...

September 9, 2011

Terror, Theology, and the Passage of Time: September 11, 2001 in Review

On Thursday, September 8, 2011, I was joined by Russell Moore, Zane Pratt, and Heath Lambert for a public discussion of the theological lessons of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. The video of the event is made available here, in hopes that ...

September 8, 2011

What Makes Evangelicalism Evangelical? A New Book Joins the Argument

The evangelical movement in America emerged in the twentieth century as conservative Protestants sought to perpetuate an intentional continuity with biblical Christianity. While the roots of the movement can be traced through centuries prior to its e ...

September 6, 2011

Adam and Eve: Clarifying Again What Is at Stake

Recent evangelical discussion concerning Adam and Eve has served at least one good purpose -- it has helped to clarify what is theologically at stake in the debate. The recent report by National Public Radio [NPR] alerted the larger secular culture t ...

August 31, 2011

A Laboratory for Christianity’s Destruction

As the BBC reports, some church leaders in the Netherlands want to transform their small nation into a laboratory for rethinking Christianity -- "experimenting with radical new ways of understanding the faith." Religious Affairs Correspondent Robert ...

August 26, 2011

Is God a Problem? Modern Theology Faces its Alternatives

The Christian Century, the venerable voice of liberal Protestantism, juxtaposed two significant obituaries in its August 23, 2011 edition -- and both on the same page. The magazine published a respectful obituary of evangelical titan John R. W. Stott ...

August 24, 2011

Video: “Little Children, Keep Yourselves from Idols”

This is my Opening Convocation message delivered Tuesday, August 23, 2011, to open the new academic year at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. It is taken from 1 John 5:21, "Little children, keep yourselves from idols." [flashvideo file= ...

August 23, 2011