Ahead of the November Presidential election, leaders of the National Association of Evangelicals signed a statement published in the Washington Post, urging evangleicals to "engage with humility, civility, intellectual rigor and honesty in the complex and contentious social issues that face our nation."
In light of the pandemic and other crises, I am often asked if our country is experiencing God’s judgment. I always respond by explaining that judgment in the Bible takes two forms: permissive and proactive.
It is incumbent upon Christians to follow the example of Justice Ginsburg by investing in the coming generations. In our case, the stakes are even higher, since Christianity is always one generation from extinction.
Consistent with the relativistic claim that truth claims are subjective and personal, Justice Ginsburg advocated a view of the US Constitution as "living" and thus subject, as Justice Antonin Scalia derisively noted, to "whimsical change by five of nine votes on the Supreme Court." Such "whimsical change" discovered a "right" to abortion in 1973 and to same-sex marriage in 2015.
No matter how quickly the world seems to change, human nature does not. We still face the same underlying fears and feel the same cherished hopes as our ancestors in 1920 and 1820. And we still need the unchanging truth of biblical revelation in 2020.
“Christianity,” however, as a revealed worldview, has an objective definition. Christianity centers ultimate reality and, therefore, ultimate authority, outside (not within) the created order, locates it in a Divine Personal Being who has made Himself known through what He has made, through Holy Scripture, and ultimately made known Himself through Christ Jesus. One might doubt that there is a God who has revealed Himself or that God has revealed Himself in these ways, and therefore reject Christianity. But because Christianity is a worldview that comes already carefully defined, it’s not open to mass-scale revisions.
In a broken world filled with disaster, disease, and despair, Jesus is our only hope. Even more than we need a COVID-19 vaccine and solutions for the divisiveness of our day, we need to know Jesus.
A new survey reveals that 52 percent of American adults believe Jesus was a great teacher but not God. This is despite Jesus’ clear claims to divinity. Tragically, 30 percent of evangelical Christians agree that Jesus was merely a great teacher.
One of the enduring lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic is the frailty of human life. No matter our celebrity status, financial wealth, political power, or cultural success, the play Camelot is more fiction than fact in our fallen world.
According to a new survey conducted by LifeWay Research, most Americans and nearly one-third of evangelicals say Jesus was a “good teacher” but was not God.
