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As Summer Ends — (Late) Summer Reading List 2022

This year my Summer Reading List is definitely testing the boundaries of summer. But I claim as justification the fact that the days are still warm an...

August 8, 2022

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The Mythology of Star Wars: The Faith versus the Force

When Bill Moyers asked his youngest son why he had seen Star Wars at least a dozen times, he responded: "For the same reason you have been reading the Old Testament all your life." As Moyers explained, "He was in a new world of myth." That new world ...

May 25, 2005

While It Is Day–Living as if Time Mattered, Part Two

On Saturday, May 21, Dr. Mohler addressed the class of 2005 at Union University's Commencement ceremony. The following is the second part of his address, in the form of an edited transcript. Click here for Part One. While it is day, share the Gospel ...

May 24, 2005

While It Is Day–Living as if Time Mattered, Part One

On Saturday, May 21, Dr. Mohler addressed the class of 2005 at Union University's Commencement ceremony. The following is the first part of his address, in the form of an edited transcript. Part Two will be published tomorrow. This is a great day—a ...

May 23, 2005

Two Competing Religions–The Legacy of the 1960s

Today's culture wars can be directly traced to the cultural transformations of the 1960's. As a matter of fact, that critical decade represented nothing less than a cultural revolution of sorts--a revolution Stanley Kurtz describes as "both a fulfill ...

May 20, 2005

Why Are Conservative Churches Growing?

Judith Shulevitz wants to know why conservative churches are strong and growing. Writing in the May 12, 2005 edition of Slate, Shulevitz shares the confusion of many on the secular left in wondering why strict religious movements appear to be growin ...

May 19, 2005

The Disappearance of Church Discipline–How Can We Recover? Part Four

When should the church exercise church discipline? In one sense, a form of redemptive church discipline is exercised whenever the Bible is taught and the truth of God's Word is applied to the lives of believers. The convicting power of the Word of Go ...

May 18, 2005

The Disappearance of Church Discipline–How Can We Recover? Part Three

In 1 Corinthians 5, the Apostle Paul confronted a case of gross moral failure in the Corinthian church. In the face of such sin, however, the church had done nothing. So how should the Corinthians have responded to this public sin? Paul speaks in thi ...

May 17, 2005

The Disappearance of Church Discipline–How Can We Recover? Part Two

The disappearance of church discipline has weakened the church and compromised Christian witness. The church's abdication of its moral responsibility has also lead to public humiliation before the watching world. Any road to recovery will take the ch ...

May 16, 2005

The Disappearance of Church Discipline–How Can We Recover? Part One

What is pure is corrupted much more quickly than what is corrupt is purified. --John Cassian (AD 360-435) The decline of church discipline is perhaps the most visible failure of the contemporary church. No longer concerned with maintaining purity of ...

May 13, 2005

Should a Church Discipline Members Over Politics?

The controversy centered in a small Baptist church in North Carolina may well be a sign of things to come. A congregational meeting on May 10 led to the resignation of Pastor Chan Chandler of East Waynesville Baptist Church and the departure of an e ...

May 12, 2005

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