Culture/Politics/History
The Scripture teaches that God is compassionate, “Nevertheless, in Your great compassion You did not make an end of them or forsake them, For You are a gracious and compassionate God.“(Nehemiah 9:31) He extols compassion and commands it in His people’s lives, “So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put…
The following article appeared under the title “The Pristine Myth”. ((The Kairos Journal)) One of the most memorable American television images is a 1970s Ad Council ((“The Ad Council is a private, non-profit organization that marshals volunteer talent from the advertising and communications industries, the facilities of the media, and the resources of the business…
Ryan Polk, Associate Pastor at Trinity Baptist Church, has felt impressed by our Lord to start “The Wilberforce Initiative” which will provide a venue for Trinity as well as citizens from across the spectrum to seek to bring our Christian worldview to bear upon some of the most pressing social, moral, intellectual and spiritual issues…
Claims to the contrary, the facts speak for themselves. First, look at the veteran hospitals if you want to compare the kind of care given in private versus government-run healthcare. Over the past 25 years, I have visited different veteran hospitals on many occasions. The care is minimal and at times atrocious. I have seen…
Can we take seriously President Obama’s denials that his plan will ultimately result in healthcare rationing? Well no. The ultimate end of any such system further devalues the sanctity of human life because the government determines which citizens deserve to get the care they need, and the government can do this while simultaneously denying that…
Whatever happened to repentance? The phrase, “mistakes were made” is popular in politics, education, and in virtually any area where personal responsibility and sin used to be the reigning culprit. However, it does not take much to see why “mistakes were made” rather than “I have sinned” has become so popular. Someone has noted that:…
On May 12, 2005, Donald Kagan, Sterling Professor of Classics and History at Yale University, delivered the Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities. Speaking “In Defense of History,” he made three points that I would like to apply to the dangerous trend of marginalizing history in much of contemporary preaching. First, I begin with one of…
Recently I read a very interesting book regarding Global Warming entitled, “Unstoppable Global Warming” by S. Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery ((Singer is a climate physicist and is internationally known for his work on climate, energy, and environmental issues. He is Distinguished Research Professor at George Mason University. He is also president of The…
When I was in England in 2004, the number of Muslims attending a mosque surpassed the number of Brits attending the State Church of England. I asked a friend of mine, who has served for a number of years planting churches in London, if this meant that they now would request parity? To which he…
David Aikman, initially educated at Oxford, completed a Ph.D. in Russian and Chinese history at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is an award-winning print and broadcast journalist and a foreign policy consultant based in the Washington, D.C. area. For a time he was the TIME magazine Beijing bureau chief. In his book, Jesus in…