by Brian | Sep 15, 2015 | Current Events, Monday Study Notes
Last night we took some time to study the second coming of Jesus by looking at two things: First, does the world look like the Bible predicted it would (as we near the return of Jesus), 2000+ years ago? Second, How does the Bible say we should respond to this? Here...
by Brian | Jun 26, 2015 | Culture, Current Events
I have in front of me a printout of the full Obergefell v. Hodges decision handed down by the Supreme Court today. I plan on working through it in the next few days. If you’d like to join me, you can download it and print it out here. Already, as we have come to...
by Brian | May 15, 2015 | Culture, Current Events
This month’s issue of First Things includes an excellent editorial by R.R. Reno regarding the marriage case currently before the Supreme Court and the assumptions behind the worldviews involved in the discussion. I especially appreciated his discussion of the...
by Brian | Feb 3, 2015 | Culture, Current Events, Paper Topics
This is an interesting post I ran across by Wayne Grudem (research professor of theology and biblical studies at Phoenix Seminary) and Barry Asmus (senior economist at the National Center for Policy Analysis). They are the coauthors of The Poverty of Nations: A...
by Brian | Apr 17, 2014 | Current Events
Here’s an interesting article about how the Chinese government seems to be conducting a coordinated plan to demolish protestant churches, although they are officially denying it. “Communist officials in China have denied waging a “demolition campaign”...
by Brian | Feb 26, 2014 | Current Events
Along with some very difficult and tragic things going on in the last few weeks in Ukraine, an interesting development took place over the weekend. Christianity Today reports: “Oleksandr Turchynov, a well-known Baptist pastor and top opposition politician in...