But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.” Acts 5:29 (ESV) Christians should be loyal citizens, and they should be seen to be loyal by those in authority. A nation with many Christians may expect to be stable and peaceful. At the same time human authorities should know that Christians have …
“God spoke to me about my marriage. He told me, ‘It is finished.’ I knew I was free to get a divorce.” The man who said this to me was churchgoing and Bible-believing. He knew the gospel, valued prayer, evangelized, and could even defend faithfulness in marriage. And yet he believed God had mailed him …
We do need to be able to recognize evil, but it is not always easy to do so. Intriguingly it was when the American psychiatrist Scott Peck was researching his book on evil, People of the Lie, that he became a Christian. He asserts that when counsellors encounter evil in their counselling, they need to …
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The Book of Homilies (published in two parts, 1547 and 1563) sets out official Anglican doctrine in its clearest and most practical form. Article XXXV of the 39 Articles of Religion describes their contents as “godly and wholesome” and “necessary for these times.”[1] The homilies were written during the Reformation to apply theology to all of life. In …
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The Banner of Truth Trust, 1972, 327 pgs. Summary: A series of lectures on counterfeit miracles given in 1917 to 1918. The book is divided up into six chapters: the cessation of the charismata, patristic and mediaeval marvels, Roman Catholic miracles, Irvingite gifts (cf. review of The Life of Edward Irving), faith-healing, and mind cure. Warfield’s basic …
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I grew up in the 80s and 90s when the war on drugs was in full swing. The federal government poured a lot of money into ad campaigns to combat drug use among young people. The “Just Say No” campaign was pervasive. It was on T-shirts, billboards, school flyers, television, and radio ads. It was …