Western civilization is indebted to the Judeo-Christian tradition for the ideas of human dignity and human rights, innovation in science and medicine, habits of humanitarian charity and universal education, and its rich contribution to the arts. As the prodigious Jewish scholar Jacob Neusner has written: “Religion has written much of the history of the West.” …
For most 21st century Americans, believer or unbeliever, the basic worldview of the Bible and the truth of the gospel seem like an ethereal, other-world reality. The Christian life is just one more thing to lop on top of work, family, and vacation. What’s worse, there is a tendency to believe that real spiritual folks …
From a Birmingham jail in 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. penned his now famous response to the liberal clergymen who opposed his methods for fighting racial discrimination.1 Among his many disappointments, one stood out above all others. In the face of manifest ungodliness, the Church had been silent. King was painfully aware that when the …
The Security of Stained Glass—Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) Read More »
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. Joshua 1:8 (ESV) An …
Q: My New Year’s resolution is to start reading the Bible, but I don’t know where to begin. Can you help me? A: There is no wrong place to start reading the Bible. The book of 2 Timothy says that “all Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, …
J. C. Ryle was a prominent evangelical leader in the Church of England during the second half of the 19th century. A champion of orthodox doctrine in an age of theological decline, he never divorced dogma from holy living. In fact, his book Holiness, from which this excerpt is taken, argued that no true Christian …
No “Spiritual Gains without Pains”—J. C. Ryle (1816-1900) Read More »