President Biden’s unpardonable pardon

President Biden’s unpardonable pardon: We must love our children both rightly and righteously “Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter.” Those w...

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Looking Back: TIME Asks, “Is God Dead?”

John T. Elson's most famous article for TIME magazine appeared over 40 years ago, and it largely defined his journalistic career.  His April 8, 1966 cover story, "Is God Dead?," became an icon of the rebellious and increasingly secular sixties. El ...

September 21, 2009

Will Babies with Down Syndrome Just Disappear?

The development of prenatal diagnostic technologies presents a constellation of moral issues -- with the diagnosis of Down syndrome front and center. Over the past several years, a marked decrease in the number of babies born with Down syndrome has b ...

September 18, 2009

A Tale of Two Atheists

The Wall Street Journal may be an unusual venue for theological debate, but this past weekend's edition featured just that -- a theological debate of sorts.  The "of sorts" is a necessary qualifier in this instance, because The Wall Street Journal's ...

September 14, 2009

The Heavens (and the Hubble) Are Telling the Glory of God

The images now flowing from the Hubble Space Telescope are simply stunning. Vast nebulae appear as delicate butterflies and the vast reaches of the universe are coming into new focus.  All this comes after a feat of modern engineering and expertise a ...

September 11, 2009

Words From the Fire — Just Released From Moody Publishers

The great philosophical crisis of our day is an epistemological crisis – a crisis of knowing and a crisis of knowledge. It is a challenge for the Christian thinker, the Christian theologian, the Christian minister, the Christian preacher, and the Chr ...

September 9, 2009

The Obama School Speech Controversy — What to Think?

The controversy over President Barack Obama's speech to America's school children scheduled for Tuesday morning continues to incite controversy. On the surface, this seems incredible. Why would a speech calling for students to remain in school and se ...

September 6, 2009

Why Moralism Is Not the Gospel — And Why So Many Christians Think It Is

One of the most amazing statements by the Apostle Paul is his indictment of the Galatian Christians for abandoning the Gospel. "I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel," Paul dec ...

September 3, 2009

The NIV Announcement — A Statement

The announcement of a new project involving the New International Version of the Bible [NIV] is certain to attract a good deal of interest, both in the media and throughout the evangelical world. This level of attention is inevitable, for few issues ...

September 1, 2009

How Can a God of Love Send Anyone to Hell?

How can a God who is loving and good send anyone to hell? I was asked to address that question when I preached recently at Idlewild Baptist Church in Tampa, Florida.  Here is the video of that message. [flashvideo file=http://www.sbts.edu/media/vi ...

August 31, 2009

“The Disposition Decision” — What to Do With the Embryos?

For most Americans, the moral status of the human embryo is a question that seems quite remote. Even as hundreds of thousands of "excess" human embryos are now stored in American fertility clinics and laboratories, to most Americans these frozen embr ...

August 28, 2009