When We Understand The Text
Black Lives Matter. Of course they do! But not to the Black Lives Matter movement. Black Lives Matter is rooted in cultural Marxism, in which people are divided by race, class, and gender into preferred minority groups. A person can gain power by claiming to represent these minority groups, and people submit to this power …
The seeker-sensitive or seeker-driven movement is an evangelism strategy following the idea that everyone is searching for something and what they are really seeking is God. So a church, in an effort to be “all things to all people” (1 Corinthians 9:22), will arrange their Sunday gathering to cater to the interests of seekers. …
“Believe in yourself,” is the most common moral to just about every kids movie and TV show out there. And it’s not just for kids. This mantra is for adults, too! Believing in yourself often means that if you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything. But that’s not true. There are …
Star Wars, one of the most celebrated movie sagas of all-time, which gave us one of the greatest plot twists—”I am your father”—followed by one of the dumbest—”Leia is my sister.” And to prove this epic fail was no fluke, creator George Lucas came up with the prequel films, in which we get this …
Would you stand at someone’s window and watch them have sex? Whoa, pretty shocking question, right? That probably took you by surprise. Yet it didn’t bother you last night when you were watching Game of Thrones, or anything else with a gratuitous sexual scene. Watching that is the same as if you were to …
It’s considered edgy in popular culture to depict God as a woman. Some pop songs refer to God with feminine verbiage. And it’s widespread in liberal theology, especially among egalitarians and feminists. To justify this, these liberal theologians might use passages like Hosea 13:8, where God says, “I will fall upon them like a …
At a Las Vegas concert, Lady Gaga ripped on Vice President Mike Pence because his wife works at a Christian school that does not allow gay students and requires employees to affirm a biblical view of marriage. Imagine! A Christian school that teaches what the Bible says. Yet Lady Gaga said, “You are the …
From an interview between Anderson Cooper and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on “60 Minutes,” January of 2019. Cooper: “This would require though raising taxes.” Ocasio-Cortez: “There’s an element where, yeah, people are going to have to start paying their fair share in taxes.” Absolutely! Everyone should be paying their fair share of taxes. That’s in …
“There are millions of ways to be a human being, and many paths to what you call God.” “Well I am a Christian who believes that there are certainly many more paths to God other than Christianity.” ~Oprah Winfrey You know what? She’s right. There are millions of ways to God. There are as …
In a recent interview, Grammy and Dove Award winner Lauren Daigle was asked her opinion about homosexuality. Domenick Nati: “Do you feel that homosexuality is a sin?” Lauren Daigle: “You know, I can’t honestly answer on that. I have too many people that I love, that they are homosexual. I don’t know. I can’t …
Burning Man is an annual week-long festival held in the middle of a dessert, and gets its name from the ritual burning of a large wooden effigy. When you go to the Burning Man website, it says, “Burning Man is not a festival.” Oh, my bad. It must have been the costumes, live music, …
Was Jesus a socialist? Well, the Bible says that Jesus is King of kings and Lord of lords (1 Timothy 6:15, Revelation 19:16). So Jesus is sovereign, not socialist. But in Acts chapter 4, we see at the beginning of the church that “those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no …