When We Understand The Text
Wait a moment. What’s in this image? Is that a picture of *gasp* God? And are these paintings of Jesus? Even though the second commandment says, “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above?” Yes, well there’s an explanation behind our opening graphic. …
Legend has it that Gandhi once told a group of missionaries, “I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” There are two problems with this quote. One is that Gandhi did not actually like the Christ of the Bible. And two, Gandhi did not say …
From Dr. Voddie Baucham out of a sermon on 2 Timothy 4:1-8: “If the social justice movement went by its actual name, young Christians would not have been lured into it. Because the social justice movement is actually Cultural Marxism. There’s no such thing as ‘social justice,’ people. In fact, in the Bible, justice …
If Jesus had been a baker instead of a carpenter, would Jesus bake a cake for a gay wedding? Of course not. In Matthew 19:4-6, Jesus said, “Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and …
Surely you’ve seen the COEXIST bumper sticker before: suggesting that Muslims, Hippies (I guess), the sexually confused, Jews, Wiccans, Taoists, and Christians should be more tolerant each other. Before it looked like the Coexist logo you see on most VWs, first it included only the symbols for Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. It was made …
Jesus Christ Superstar is a rock opera written by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Weber. The musical has been popular ever since its debut in 1970, from Broadway to going on tour, several films, and a live concert version that aired Easter Sunday, April 1, 2018, on NBC. In case the mainstream success of …
President Josiah Bartlet on the television show The West Wing, from season 2, episode 3: “I like how you call homosexuality an abomination [Leviticus 18:22]. I wanted to ask you a couple of questions while I have you here. I’m interested in selling my youngest daughter into slavery as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. She’s …
Chester Bennington, lead singer of the band Linkin Park, who sold over 70 million albums, died of suicide at the age of 41. Chris Cornell, lead singer of the bands Soundgarden and Audioslave, sold more than 30 million albums worldwide. He hung himself at the age of 52. Story after story of rock stars …
The Shack, a novel by William Paul Young, has sold over 20 million copies and has been made into a feature film. It’s about a man whose daughter was murdered, leading him to ask why a loving God would allow such evil. He returns to the place where she died and meets God as …
Christian musicians are fond of saying things like, “Well, we’re not a Christian band. We’re Christians in a band,” and think they’re being profound. Front-man Jon Foreman was once asked, “Is Switchfoot a Christian band?” And he answered, “To be honest, this question grieves me because I feel that it misrepresents a much bigger …