Greg Johnson’s “Still Time to Care” Repeatedly Misrepresents the RPCES
Greg Johnson’s interpretation about what the RPCES adopted on homosexuality in 1980 is erroneous and misguided.
In Synod’s long paragraph on Call to Repentance, we find that we must not deny responsibility for or excuse “unnatural desires” even if they began in infancy. (Johnson does not quote that part of the report.) Synod’s report then disagrees with Johnson head on when it speaks of cure when it says, “In sanctification we... Continue Reading
The Real Cost of Social Media
Book Review: The goal of the book “is to help you recognize that social media is changing the way you think, feel, and live. Like water to a fish, social media has come to pervade the lives of everyone.”
In this book, he demonstrates why it is so important for Christians to think well about these world-changing, heart-shaping, soul-forming technologies. I highly recommend Terms of Service to anyone who wants to better understand how we can take back what they’ve so eagerly taken from us. Like it or not, we live in a world... Continue Reading
When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment
Book Review: Must-reading for all who care about what has taken place regarding sexuality and gender identity in our society.
I appreciated Anderson’s irenic tone. These are not the rantings of a hate-filled extremist, but an invitation to carefully consider the problems of today’s transgender ideology. He treats those whom he interacts with charitably, respectfully, and politely. The author stands as an exemplar in how critics are to handle contemporary controversies. Hopefully, this will lead... Continue Reading
Book Review: The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry
The truth is, busyness and hurry has infected our lives like a plague.
In the book, Comer claims “the mind is the portal to the soul, and what you fill your mind with will shape the trajectory of your character. In the end, your life is no more than the sum of what you gave your attention to.” I’ve also heard it said “you become what you behold.”... Continue Reading
Actually, We Do Care (part 2): A Response To Greg Johnson’s ‘Still Time To Care’
Hetero-sexual desire is a natural, pre-fall gift of God; homo-sexual desire is unnatural and not a pre-fall gift of God.
Heterosexual lust and homosexual lust are not the same qualitatively. Though they are both fallen and fall short of the glory of God, they are not fallen in the same way or for the same reason, which distinction Johnson does not make clear in his writing. Here it becomes necessary to make a distinction between... Continue Reading
Jesus and John Wayne: A Review
Du Mez offers no proposed solutions, no path forward, and no appeal to the gospel.
Du Mez’s work reads less as history and more as ideology, and an ideology with little in the way of faith, hope, or charity. All we have before us as we reach the end of the book is a cliff edge, with no path forward to forgiveness and reconciliation. There is no apparent hope. But... Continue Reading
Actually, We Do Care (Part 1): A Response To Greg Johnson’s Still Time To Care
Johnson’s book muddies the already muddied terminology regarding human sexuality.
It is my intention to demonstrate with these articles that Johnson’s book muddies the already muddied terminology regarding human sexuality and that he is not alone in using classic Reformed systematic-theological language in a novel manner to support his own conclusions. Still Time to Care: Selective Quoting? Greg Johnson’s Still Time to Care has garnered no... Continue Reading
Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism’s Looming Catastrophe
Book Review: Baucham’s thesis is that the current culture wars in the US over racism and Critical Race Theory are in danger of splitting the evangelical church and causing considerable harm.
It seems as though the American church, having taken a disastrous turn into (largely but not exclusively) right wing politics, is now in danger of overcompensating and repenting in a progressive, rather than a biblical, direction. Fault Lines exposes this and thus is largely a book about American cultural wars and American church politics. There are... Continue Reading
Book Review – Christian Counter-Attack: Europe’s Churches Against Nazism
The book was written in 1943 and so provides a unique perspective on the War since it was written during the War.
The commitment of so many Christians to suffer for righteousness sake is astonishing and puts a contemporary pastor like myself to shame. The book is a fair data based over view of the conflict with Nazism up until 1943. The intent is not to emphasize the persecution but the spiritual resistance and it achieves this goal.... Continue Reading
Puritans and Theonomy, Reconsidered
Book Review: The Mission of God: A Manifesto of Hope for Society
In respect to what is on display in The Mission of God, Boot lacks the requisite skills of an historian, which concerns me as my own academic interests have addressed how evangelicals can use and abuse the past.[4] The purpose of this review is narrower than noting The Mission of God’s overall demerits.[5] Rather, I address one of Boot’s... Continue Reading
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