With a church on just about every corner in many parts of the U. S. and very few churches in other parts of the country, how do you know which church to attend? Why do people go to a specific church? Is it because of the building, or the programs or people? Is it because…
What if a Christian finds his indwelling sin weakening his communion with God, destroying his peace and assurance, giving him a wounded conscience, and hardening his heart? John Owen’s answer is two-fold: he must be counseled to do “mortification” and to “set his mind on things above.” On the basis of Romans 8:13 (“if by…
These two mindsets involve fundamentally different values. The highest value of a community with a tribal mindset is self-preservation. A tribal community exists solely for itself, and those within it keep asking, “How can we protect ourselves from those who are different from us?” A tribal mindset is marked by an unbalanced patriotism. It typically…
The field of Christianity is the world. The Christian cannot be satisfied so long as any human activity is either opposed to Christianity or out of all connection with Christianity. Christianity must pervade not merely all nations, but also all of human thought. The Christian, therefore, cannot be indifferent to any branch of earnest human…
With so much nationalism/patriotism wrapped up with Christianity in America, and all of its political, personal and social fallout, it may be instructive to look at an excerpt from Aldous Huxley’s book on Christian ethics. While the book focuses on many hot-button topics like abortion; homosexuality; the Christian and war and euthanasia, it is the…
