Q: Why OT/NT dichotomy?

Hello Brothers and Sisters…
I am a true follower of Christ, and I accepted Christ as my only saviour.
But I have one question that bothers me…We know the Old testament and the new testament are different. Why is it that God is an ‘angry and destructive’ God in the Old testament, and written that we follow [...]

"Gospel of rational hope"?

Pastor Glenn Parkinson of Severna Park Evangelical Presbyterian Church writes in his blog that he is starting to wonder whether the media is doing more than reporting on a culture in crisis. He suggests they are promoting a “culture OF crisis”. It’s a clever turn of phrase, and reflects, I think, a view that is [...]

Happy message from the Jolly Blogger

“Confess your faults one to another” (Jas. 5:16). He who is alone with his sin is utterly alone. It may be that Christians, notwithstanding corporate worship, common prayer, and all their fellowship in service, may still be left to their loneliness. The final break-through to fellowship does not occur, because, [...]

The challenge of the golden middle

It’s so difficult to be balanced. In fact, I’ll say it’s impossible to BE balanced, and difficult to strive for balance. We keep overshooting the mark each time. Life becomes a series of corrections, first to one side, then to the other.
Hopefully somehow we can manage to go along without falling into the ditch of [...]

Back with a vengeance – Ya gotta like Dan Brown

In the best Garrison Keillor tradition, an English teacher strikes it rich.
I haven’t read the book yet, and the movie isn’t out yet, but I already know what interests me about this latest pop sensation. It is the contortions my Christian brethren whose roots are deeply mired in Gnosticism go through as they attack Dan [...]

No life is wasted

Like millions of others, I was deeply moved by Paul E. Schroeder’s op-ed about the death of his son, Augie. (Washington Post, Tuesday, January 3) I agree that from the perspective Paul is viewing it, a misguided foreign policy and foolish military tactics, Augie became yet another wasted life, an unnecessary casualty of war.
My comments [...]

George Washington’s respect for religion

No doubt any Christians who read my yesterday post would wonder how I could seem to face the loss of morality in our culture with equanimity. I do not. I share George Washington’s view, that religion and morality are the foundation of political prosperity:
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, [...]

I’m a Christian, but…

The Christian community in the first century was outside, and in many ways opposed to, the power-struggles and values of the society of their day — both Jewish and Roman. Yet the Christians were culturally relevant — they understood the weighty issues of the day, and respected and honored their hearers.
What they offered was intensely [...]

Terrifically Salvific

The shallowness of evangelicalism leaves it largely inequipped to deal with the difficult issues. If we are to be a people that brings hope to the hopeless, purpose to the purposeless and joy to those who know only sorrow, we must be prepared to give answers that are biblically-based and Scripturally-satisfying. To do this we [...]