Science – Atheism – Christianity

John Lennox is Professor of Mathematics in the University of Oxford, Fellow in Mathematics and the Philosophy of Science, and Pastoral Adviser at Green Templeton College, Oxford. He is also an adjunct Lecturer at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University and at the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics and is a Senior Fellow of the Trinity Forum. His most [...]

The Preservation Of Civil Government

Quoting Fisher Ames: The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.

THE PATH OF SOLOMON

He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity. When goods increase, they increase who eat them, and what advantage has their owner but to see them with his eyes? Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or [...]

Making Christianity Illegal?

Dr. Benjamin Wiker writes the following article on Church/State relations: While we are not asked to worship the president, congress, or the courts, we are, step by step, being compelled to bow to their moral agenda. Consider Bill H. R. 1913, the “Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009.” Allegedly, it only dealt [...]

The Spirit Of Religion And Freedom

From the writings of Alexis de Tocqueville: The character of Anglo-American civilization…is the product…of two perfectly distinct elements that elsewhere have often made war with each other, but which, in America, they have succeeded in incorporating somehow into one another and combining marvelously. I mean to speak of the spirit of religion and the spirit [...]

Faith

John Henry Jowett (1863-1923) writes about “faith”: Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?” He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move [...]

Robert Murray McCheyne: Do Not Doubt His Love

In the words of Robert Murray McCheyne: God’s children should not doubt His love when He afflicts. Christ loved Lazarus peculiarly, and yet He afflicted Him very sore. A surgeon never bends his eye so tenderly upon his patient, as when he is putting in the lancet, or probing the wound to the very bottom. [...]

Education And God

From the pen of Gouverneur Morris: Religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion and the duties of man towards God. (Notes on the Form of a Constitution for France, 1791)

The Careless Life

The ordinary worldly man does not really and seriously think on death, and the judgment that will follow. We would all do well to remember, “And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment. . . . (Hebrews 9:27 ESV) John Bunyan (1628-1688) adds more to this line [...]

Take Comfort, Afflicted Christian!

Quoting George MacDonald: No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were written in a prison. The greatest thoughts of the greatest thinkers have all passed through fire. The greatest poets have “learned in suffering what they taught in [...]

The Spiritual Experience

From the pen of John MacArthur: In an authentic spiritual experience, emotion, feelings, and the senses often become intense, transcending the normal. These may include strong feelings of remorse over sin, a mighty sense of trust that surpasses the pain of a traumatic situation, an overpowering peace in the midst of trouble, the overwhelming sense [...]

The Presence Of Spiritual Thirst

O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. (Psalm 63:1 ESV) Here is my favorite psalm of the many I love. The beauty of it is obvious. We may think of [...]

Loving Others

Quoting Jerry Bridges: Love is very much a matter of actions rather than emotions. However, although this emphasis on acts of love is certainly necessary, we can sometimes give the impression that love doesn’t involve any emotion – that it is entirely an act of the will, of one’s duty, regardless of how one feels. [...]

When Government Becomes Big. . . .

From the desk of columnist George Will: “Government becomes big by having big ambitions for supplanting markets as society’s primary allocator of wealth and opportunity. Therefore it becomes a magnet for factions muscular enough, in money or numbers or both, to bend government to their advantage. The left’s centuries-old mission is to increase social harmony [...]

The Importance Of Zeal For Christ

The great sins of our age are impure doctrine, and sloppiness of faith. You know that on Sunday mornings there are many churches who teach that, practically speaking, it does not matter what you believe as long as you act the part and say religious words. Such places actually believe in salvation by death, because [...]

Ravi Zacharias On The Antitheist

Frederick Antony Ravi Kumar Zacharias was born in India in 1946 and immigrated to Canada with his family twenty years later. While pursuing a career in business management, his interest in theology grew; subsequently, he pursued this study during his undergraduate education. He received his Masters of Divinity from Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois. [...]

The Myth Of Government Created Jobs

From the pen of columnist John Stossel: “Some politicians claim that politicians create jobs. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says, ‘My job is to create jobs.’ What hubris! Government has no money of its own. All it does is take from some people and give to others. That may create some jobs, but only by [...]

Martin Luther: The Son’s Inheritance

Christ’s inheritance is life, grace, all that is in heaven and earth, eternal truth, power, wisdom, and righteousness. The Son governs and rules over hunger and thirst, over fortune and misfortune, over everything imaginable, whether in heaven or on earth. Martin Luther explains that if we believe on Him, we become partakers with Him: As [...]

The Bible Tests Experience And Truth

Quoting Oswald Chambers: The “words” of God and the “Word” of God stand together; to separate them is to render both powerless. Any expounder of the words of God is liable to go off on a tangent if he or she does not remember this stern, undeviating standard of exposition, namely, that no individual experience [...]

Why Can’t We Use The Resources We Own?

From the pages of The Washington Times: “The United States possesses 1.4 trillion barrels of recoverable oil, more than the oil the entire world has consumed during the past 150 years, according to an Institute for Energy Research report released last week. Add in an estimated 2.7 quadrillion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas and [...]

J. C. Ryle: Self-Righteousness

You should not believe that all who pray have a godly spirit or that outward service cannot be done unless you have Jesus Christ as your savior. There are people who use the same prayers, bow their knees, move their lips along with others; and yet they are as different as light and darkness. All [...]

Controversy And Anger

Robert Charles Sproul is an American Calvinist theologian and pastor. He is the founder and chairman of Ligonier Ministries (named after the Ligonier Valley just outside of Pittsburgh, where the ministry started as a study center for college and seminary students) and can be heard daily on the Renewing Your Mind radio broadcast in the [...]

Will The Cycle Of Democracy Prove Fatal For America?

Quoting Mark Alexander: [In free nations there has been a] contiguous rise and decline [which] has been characterized as a fatal “Cycle of Democracy”. The cycle follows this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to Liberty (Rule of Law); From Liberty to abundance; from abundance to complacency; [...]

Thomas Boston: A Guide For Reading The Bible

Thomas Boston was born at Duns in Berwickshire. At the age of seven he began to read the Bible. At the age of eleven, he began to think about the state of his soul after hearing a sermon by Henry Erskine. He attended the University of Edinburgh. He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery [...]

Christianity Continues To Grow

Quoting Troy Anderson: The purported demise of Christianity is a fallacy – an illusion conjured up by sociologists, atheists and secular media with Newsweek cover stories like “The Decline and Fall of Christian America.” In reality, Christianity is now the world’s largest religion and is growing exponentially in developing nations, offsetting declines in Europe, according [...]