The Ten Commandments have made a lot of news in America over the last few years. When Roy Moore took office in 2001 as the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court he commissioned and installed in the state Supreme Court building a granite monument with the Commandments inscribed on it. Despite ...
J. I. Packer calls justification by faith the “storm center of the Reformation.”[1] Justification was at the heart of the gospel of God’s grace that the Reformers rediscovered and began to proclaim. Those 16th century Protestants recognized the importance of this teaching and saw ...
What comes to your mind when you think of the glory of God? His great works? His excellencies and perfections? His revelation of Himself in Jesus Christ? Certainly, God’s glory is displayed in these ways. But that is not all that the Bible means when it speaks of the glory of God. The Old ...
These are confused and confusing times for American evangelicals. The Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) could not bring itself to exclude from its membership two prominent open theists in its annual meeting last November. Though there are, no doubt, many considerations that motivated the ...
[This article is adapted from a chapter that appears in the book, Bound Only Once, edited by Douglas Wilson and recently published by Canon Press.] Recent years have witnessed a revisioning of God and reality by some that nevertheless want to maintain their credentials as evangelicals. ...
Where Was God? Tom Ascol Where was God September 11, 2001? That's the question. Packed into it are numerous other questions, like "Why didn't God stop this from happening?" "Could God have stopped it?" "What is God really like?" "How can we trust God anymore?" The answers ...
Southern Baptists adopted significant changes to the Baptist Faith and Message statement during the 2000 convention which met in Orlando last June. The study committee which proposed the revisions was chaired by Dr. Adrian Rogers, pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Cordova, Tennessee. Rogers and ...
Introduction When Jimmy Carter became President of the United States in 1976 I remember my Political Science professor at Texas A&M University talking about the confusion which his colleagues from the North were experiencing. Several of them called him on the phone to get help in ...