This book was written 20 years ago but is still one of the best on the subject, and carries the comfortable and yet scholarly style of its well-known author. Books on the subject of pain or loss in the believer’s life can range from psychological babble to theological rabble. This is a much more balanced […]
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The Sin of This Generation
By Joe Shrader, PhD East Carolina University Note: Dr. Joe Shrader is the editor’s brother. He received his Ph.D from Michigan State University and is an associate professor at ECU in Greenville, North Carolina. The sin of this generation is selfishness. It manifests itself by the disrespect shown the church elders. The arrogance of this […]
When A Christian Sins
I love to read these practical books from past but recent Christian leaders (written in 1954). I think great preachers preach even in their writings. This is a one-evening read that will encourage you for days to come. Rice was one of those independent evangelists whose orthodoxy and scholarship made him acceptable to all. Yet […]
Why Bad Things Happen In God’s World
September 11 will long be the signal date for remembering that tragedy can happen, even in America—one nation under God. The following has been my response, which I shared with my own church the Sunday before 9-11. I find the Christian’s response to the presence of evil a mirror response to the question of atheism: […]
What In The World Are We Doing?
The Belgic Confession (1561) pictures God’s creation as, “a most beautiful book in which all created things, whether great or small, are as letters showing the invisible things of God to us.”1 When the angels in heaven sing before God they say, Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for […]
Generic Christianity
[Real] Christianity seldom occupies the attention of the bulk of nominal Christians. Thus we may expect them to be ignorant also of its tenets. They will be acquainted merely with those doctrines and principles that the law of the land commonly holds or sanctions. But whatever is unique in real Christianity and should be habitually […]
We Are Also History Revisionists!
St. Amant: “The historian can never allow the message of history to create historical facts. Nor can he ignore or distort those facts in the interest of his own bias.”1 Antiphon: “Be not so unjust; rather leave something for that other witness, Time, who aids the zealous seekers of eternal truth.”2 One of the primary […]
The Hypocrite Finders
For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise. . . . . But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom […]
Christianity In The Dock
Do you really believe the masses will be Christian again? Nonsense! Never again. That tale is finished. No one will listen to it again. But we can hasten matters. The parsons will dig their own graves. They will betray their God to us. They will betray anything for the sake of their miserable jobs and […]
Inferno
A Couple Notes About Hell C.S. Lewis wrote, “It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. If that is too much, you should at least read one old one to every three new ones” (God in the […]