The issue of “gender neutrality” in Scripture translation became a matter of grave concern earlier this year. The International Bible Society (IBS) had commissioned its Committee on Bible Translation (CBT) to make the Bible more gender-sensitive. Susan Olasky of WORLD magazine publicly criticized the IBS, CBT and Zondervan Publishing for their plans. In response, Zondervan […]
If you put twelve men with strongly differing viewpoints on a controversial issue in one room, what do you get? If they are Christian men who are willing to pray together, and who share a desire that the Bible be translated accurately, then you just might get a surprising agreement. That was exactly what happened […]
The day was November 19, 1863, and the president of the United States had traveled by train to the site of the tragic Battle of Gettysburg. A portion of that bloody battleground was being dedicated as a cemetery for those who had died, and Mr. Lincoln was scheduled to address the gathering. At the appointed […]
I still don’t like being told I’m wrong. I’ve learned to take it-but like most people, I prefer compliments. So I won’t pretend I felt good about a recommendation recently from an ad hoc committee of the Evangelical Press Association that WORLD magazine be called on the carpet. It isn’t yet an action of EPA […]
Let’s imagine that we are sitting in church on a Sunday morning and while we are anticipating the beginning of the worship service, the organist is laying the prelude. The music which is being played is one of Bach’s masterpieces. The organist is very skilled. She plays with feeling and sensitivity to the dynamics of […]
Does Christianity in Canada lead to better morals? The Canadian society will have a difficult time answering that question, for Canada has lost sight of what is moral. What Christians consider to be moral, our society is identifying as being unmoral. It used to be that the Ten Commandments were respected by Canadian law. Now […]
A few weeks ago I received an e-mail asking for prayer. David Allen, a young missionary to Malaysia, had contracted a rare (possibly unknown) disease that was killing him. He couldn’t keep anything down and his body was literally wasting away. The Center for Disease Control in Atlanta said it would be two months before […]
In 1935 J. Gresham Machen was tried by the Presbytery of New Brunswick of the Northern Presbyterian Church for violating his ordination vows, renouncing and disobeying the rules and lawful authority of the church, advocating rebellious defiance against the lawful authority of the church, showing contempt of and rebellion against his ecclesiastical superiors, and refusing […]
GUANGZHOU, China – During confirmation hearings to become America’s ambassador to China, James Sasser was asked about the “house church” movement in China Sasser said he had never heard of it. For enlightenment, he should visit Pastor Samuel Lamb at what is probably China’s best-known house church. Located off a main street, down a gantlet […]
Usually, in this space, I busy myself telling you what to do. That is, I try to point you to the specific assignments given by the Lord in His Word, to men holding the offices of elder or deacon. I try to highlight some attitudes and duties often overlooked by common custom in today’s churches, […]