Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Anne Kennedy makes an interesting observation in her piece "What is Really the Problem?": Second, human people are wicked. All people. ALL have sinned and fallen well and catastrophically short of the glory of God. All of the cries about white supremacy, white evangelicalism, patriarchy, and racism all illumine the very false and foolish idea …
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David French's piece on the "Seven Mountain Movement" is in intriguing look into something that I've heard discussed over the years but never really spelled out. He describes the basics of the movement as follows: In its distilled essence, the Seven Mountain concept describes seven key cultural/religious institutions that should be influenced and transformed by …
I got this shout-out from MEL Magazine's Miles Klee about my 2012 piece on working in heaven: I was thankful to turn up one guy, Don C. Warrington, who, though a practicing Christian and once employed by the Church of God, wasn’t having this bull****. “The Scriptures are not very detailed on what our life …
A favourite psalm of many is Psalm 91. Everyone likes this part: Praise of a Song, by David. He that dwells in the help of the Highest, shall sojourn under the shelter of the God of heaven. He shall say to the Lord, Thou art my helper and my refuge: my God; I will hope …
As we come up on another anniversary of September 11, we present this, prepared for the Church of God Chaplains Commission: https://youtu.be/HINdOGSe68k This is a video version of the PowerPoint presentation first shown at the Church of God Chaplains Commission Honors Dinner and Awards Ceremony, Marriott Ball Room, Indianapolis, Indiana, 10 August 2002. This was …
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Alexander Vazakas (1873-1965) began life in the Ottoman Empire, where his family suffered persecution on account of their evangelical faith. In 1902 he immigrated to America, where he became a linguist and philosopher. During the last years of his life, he served as a professor at Evangel College (now Evangel University) in Springfield, Missouri, and …
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A new survey shows that the majority of Americans no longer believe that Jesus is the path to salvation and instead believe that being a good person is sufficient. As part of the ongoing release of the Arizona Christian University-based Cultural Research Center's American Worldview Inventory, the latest findings — exploring perceptions of sin and …
Sure looks that way: Jim Wallis, age 72, is a venerable Religious Left patriarch, having founded what became Sojourners magazine, originally called The Post-American, in 1971. Now Wallis has stepped down as Sojourners editor after he tried to delete an article accusing Roman Catholicism of rampant racism. His attempt prompted two other editors publicly to …
This Week in AG History — August 11, 1945 By Ruthie Edgerly ObergOriginally published on AG News, 13 August 2020 When the Pentecostal movement began to take root at the Azusa Street Mission in 1906 under the leadership of William J. Seymour, there were other missions springing up in Los Angeles that joined with what […] …
One of those Evangelical concepts that hasn't quite resonated with me is that of the "perfect will of God" for your life, that it is imperative to find that will and to live it. If you don't, you'll miss it big time. It's not that God's will is not perfect, it's that the creation isn't, …
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Positive Infinity 