Advent in a Time of COVID What “Jesus is Lord” Really Means Black Friday will be different this year, thanks to COVID-19. Instead of a single day of sleep-deprived consumers trampling security guards for flatscreen TV’s, it’s more a couple weeks of online over-marketing. While the presumed decrease in physical violence is certainly an improvement, … More Advent in a Time of COVID
The Problem with Talking about Right and Wrong Colson Center for Christian Worldview JOHN STONESTREET WITH ROBERTO RIVERA Perhaps the most helpful framework I know of in wrestling with moral issues comes from T.S. Eliot. Before we can know what to do with something, we must know what that something is for. For example, before we decide what we … More The Problem with Talking about Right and Wrong
How to Biblically Defend the Sanctity of Life God placed a higher premium on protecting the life of the unborn child and the pregnant mother than protecting the life of anybody else in Israelite society… READ MORE
Today’s BreakPoint: Demon’s Guide to the Election – How C.S. Lewis Addressed National Division In The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis imagines how an experienced demonic operative might advise a younger, less experienced understudy in the intricacies of counter-Christian spiritual warfare. In one passage especially relevant right now, Lewis describes how politics could be used to tempt and … More Demon’s Guide to the Election – How C.S. Lewis Addressed National Division
Today’s BreakPoint: Live Not by Lies …Weiss describes a growing and institutionally enforced anti-Semitism, and proceeds to list a series of incidents that she says cannot be accurately understood as isolated, but instead as an essential and insidious component of the new liberalism, a “mixture of postmodernism, postcolonialism, identity politics, neo-Marxism, critical race theory, intersectionality, … More Live Not by Lies
AMP and RVR 1960 COMMENTS and CONTEXT The parallel passage in the New Testament can be found in the book of James 4:13-17 . The message is pretty plain, you can plan for tomorrow all you want ( and there is not biblical principle against proper preparation and planning) but do not brag about how … More Sunday Sermon Series – Boast Not!
Today’s BreakPoint: You Can Oppose Abortion and Defend Life. You Must. JOHN STONESTREET Last Wednesday, during a new segment on the BreakPoint Podcast in which Shane Morris and I field questions from listeners, we tackled the following question / lecture: “If abortion is so evil then why does God abort millions of fertilized eggs every day? With … More You Can Oppose Abortion and Defend Life. You Must.
Today’s BreakPoint: The Call to Be Countercultural JOHN STONESTREET WITH MARIA BAER Two years ago, when Jackie Hill-Perry, a talented writer, poet, and speaker, spoke at a Wilberforce Weekend, she had the entire room leaning forward in their chairs. A powerful speaker with a powerful testimony about following Christ out of a lesbian lifestyle–no one in the audience … More The Call to Be Countercultural
Today’s BreakPoint: WAP and “Cuties” What America’s Number 1 Song Says About Us JOHN STONESTREET WITH DAVID CARLSON Though Americans remain a morally serious people, at least in our quickness to condemn each other as “Hitlers” for various misdeeds, we are clearly not concerned with moral consistency. We demand churches close to stop the spread of … More WAP and “Cuties”
The Case against “Culling the Herd” Today’s BreakPoint: Fewer Humans Won’t Heal the Planet JOHN STONESTREET WITH ROBERTO RIVERA According to news reports, there’s at least one bright spot amidst all the COVID-19 bad news: the planet is beginning to heal itself. With those pesky and invasive humans stuck at home, animals are reclaiming wild spaces (and even city … More Fewer Humans Won’t Heal the Planet
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