Have you ever noticed how much more complicated it is to cover up the truth rather than confess it? For instance, God tells us: “And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished” (Genesis 1:31-2:1). Yet rather than simply confess, as the Westminster Divines did,…
Category: Battle Lines
The Liberty Cafe: Worldly Ways
This week we take a look at how conservatives and evangelicals are succumbing to the worldly ways of liberalism instead of submitting to the wisdom of God. In particular, we’ll be focused on race relations using my book, Race in America: Liberalism’s Attack on Minorities and the Church, as a guide. Podcast: Play in new window | Download…
Race in America: Liberalism’s Attack on Minorities and the Church
We live in a world at war. A war that has been waged ever since Adam defied God and abandoned Eve to Satan’s deceit to get a taste of the forbidden fruit. Unfortunately, the church too often also falls for this deceit and retreats, unable to recognize the battles lines forming around us. Race in…
Austin’s Solution to Homelessness: The Homeless Hotel
The problem of homelessness is like all of the problems our society is facing today; a problem of liberalism. For liberalism at its heart is a rejection of God. Which, of course, is the foundation of all of our problems. The current trendy rejection of God when it comes to homelessness is a concept called…
Where Will its Stand on the Six Days of Creation Lead the PCA?
Every faith has to make decisions about what it believes. The Christian church generally agrees its beliefs are based on the Bible. Beyond that, though, agreement is often hard to find. Case in point: those of us who call ourselves reformed or Calvinists agree that Scripture is inerrant and the whole counsel of God’s Word…
Peace and Purity in the PCA: A Primer for Members
During the eight years that Barack Obama was president, friends and colleagues would often complain about various policies or actions of his administration. While I was usually sympathetic with their angst, I would often respond, “Well, we have no one to blame but ourselves. After all, we (the American people) elected him.” I had a similar response when…
Where Does the PCA Stand on Revoice? A Look at the Numbers
I noted in my previous piece describing the overtures to be considered at at the Presbyertian Church in America’s General Assembly that at the top of the list was how it was going to deal with with the Revoice movement. That certainly turned out to be the case. So I thought I’d do a deep dive…
An Overview of the PCA’s Upcoming General Assembly
Like the culture around it, the Presbyterian Church in America has been facing a fair amount of turmoil for some time now. Some of this usually shows up at the PCA’s General Assembly, the annual gathering of PCA elders (teaching and ruling). This year’s event, coming up this week in Dallas, promises more of the same. Three years…
Anointed with the Oil of Gladness
With the loss of the Vietnam War, Watergate, stagflation, the mainstreaming of drug use, and the Jimmy Carter-led American malaise, the 1970s is not a prime candidate for nostalgic memories. Yet one thing stands out when looking back to that decade; liberals had a sense of humor. Gary Trudeau’s Doonesbury poked fun at everyone–liberals and…
Hate is a Christian Virtue
Let me from the start confess to not being very original. I borrowed the concept of the title of this piece from a recent column from Douglas Wilson–though I use it differently. We’ll return to it in a little bit after I work through a couple of things. The first is the White Horse Inn,…