The Domino Effect of Rejecting Scripture

by | Feb 14, 2006 | Uncategorized

Gay Bishop Enters Treatment for Alcoholism – Yahoo! News No one is above temptation and falling into grievous habitual ministry-ending sin could happen to anyone. Here’s another display of how we are so dependent on God’s grace each moment of each day. However, when there is an open violation of God’s Word in one major and public avenue of ministry (i.e., the homosexual issue), you can be sure that there have been many previous and more covert violations that will one day surface. Even though this Bishop is a part of a denomination that rejects the inerrancy of Scripture, and has embraced a host of aberrant theological viewpoints, the fall of a public ministry figure is another reason we should pray for God’s mercy and men’s integrity for those in public positions of church...

Evangelicals (?) Are Now Green! What’s Missing Here?

by | Feb 14, 2006 | Uncategorized

Evangelical Leaders Join Global Warming Initiative – New York Times Big names of prominent evangelical Christian leaders (and some who I’m not sure would link themselves otherwise with evangelicals), say we need national legislation to deal with global warming. I watched Rick Warren this past weekend on Fox News defend his participation in this endeavor. He linked it to our responsibility to be good stewards of the planet, as God commanded in Genesis one. He began by saying he never promotes any specific legislation, but he is definitely against the Kyoto treaty and he is definitely for new congressional legislation. Is this what happens when evangelicals have become too prominent in their respective communities. They then need to turn to more global causes that will gain them a larger audience and a bigger cause? Has the Great Commission become too boring to pursue any longer? Or perhaps this global initiative business is the very key that Jesus needs to usher in the fulfilment of the Great Commission. Where will the leading evangelical voices in our country go next? What will be the next great secular situation we will fix through our influence? Stay tuned. See Dennis Swanson on this subject: Part 1 and Part...

Creating Tolerance Through Cartoons and Violence

by | Feb 14, 2006 | Uncategorized

Amazing isn’t it. The pesident of France issues an interesting edict: “Anything that can hurt the convictions of another, particularly religious convictions, must be avoided. Freedom of expression must be exercised in a spirit of responsibility,” Chirac told his cabinet.” How do you create sympathy and tolerance in our global community today? Violence over the slightest offense can gain presidential proclamations of guilt on the practitioners of free speech. It will be facinating to see if this condemnation of religious cartoons will be evenly applied. I bet not. Here again is another sign that in our pluralistic culture, even the intolerant receive sympathy, as long as they are not conservative Christians. But then again, we certainly don’t expect the world to honor Christ or those who follow Him. They didn’t honor Him while He was physically here on earth. The world violently crucified Him. The Muslim outrage and the passive response of many toward the Islamic cartoon violence, while chiding secularists for making fun, is another sign that we cannot expect to create a culture that will honor Christ outside of the gospel. A moral culture is not our answer. The embracing of a violently persecuted, but victorious Savior – Jesus Christ is the means to truly peaceful culture. See also John Piper’s excellent commentary on the difference between the Muslim Mohammed and the Savior of the world, Jesus...