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First, I appreciate that he acknowledged the ways that people who are not on welfare benefit from others. It always grates me when I hear about "those people on welfare" from men working for their fathers' businesses, or even from guys whose families bailed them out of their youthful indis...

MaxPC wrote: All cults are like that. I call it spiritual carnage with a devastating effect on souls. Cult groups can be found in every denomination too and only seem to last less than 50 years.

If they last more than fifty years, we stop calling them a cult and just call them the [Founder’s Name] Conference.

I’ve actually been reflecting on the idea of God’s sovereignty and glory lately, not just as it relates to free will. For Calvinists, God can sovereignly will evil (yes, I know that get qualified) because it works for his greater glory. The Old Testament, especially, uses images people of the times ...

One of my goals in this thread is to find the origin of this term. Thé idea has apparently been around for a while, but I think what you’re currently seeing stems from 2012 when Chosen Books republished Steve Sampson’s book Confronting Jezebel: Discerning and Defeating the Spirit of Control . (I fi...

It depends on what exactly you’re looking for, but you might consider Mark Noll’s Turning Points . It’s been a few years since I read it, but I enjoyed it very much. As the name implies, it’s written around episodes where the Church grappled with choices or adapted to deal with new situations. This ...

The left takes a strong stance against abuse when it suits their overall agenda, and turns a blind eye when it would mean a loss of power for them. This is a good example of situational ethics leading to an "ends justify the means" mindset, and results in great evil. This seems to me like...

The impeachment of Bill Clinton was the first major political event I remember, just coming into my teens. Through my teenage years, I got a decent dose of worldview teaching (Josh McDowell, the Truth Project, etc.) to reinforce my nascent Biblical worldview, grounded in Absolute Truth, against othe...

A few years ago I had a conversation with some Mormon missionaries. I told them I was Mennonite, and explained a little about Anabaptists. The missionaries told me there was a group of Amish that had joined their church somewhere north of Columbus (possibly Knox County), and they continued to live a...