Intellectual Snobs
Christian intellectuals are a great gift to the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, but intellectual snobs are a blight on the Lord's name.
Full-orbed biblical Reformational truth by the founder and president of the Center for Cultural Leadership.
Christian intellectuals are a great gift to the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, but intellectual snobs are a blight on the Lord's name.
The greatest confidence we can have in prayer is not that we are praying successfully but that our Lord is praying successfully for us.
P. Andrew Sandlin discusses with his sons Richard (academic) and Ben (GIS specialist) the current political climate. Lighter and more humorous episode.
In times of great trial and vexation and pain and death, do not ask only, "Where was God in all this?" Ask also, "Where was Satan in all this?" God has chosen not to eliminate evil within history, but to defeat it by his Son.
God hates self-righteousness, but he loves righteousness. In an age that excuses unrighteousness by appeal to grace, never apologize for being righteous.
A 4-minute exposé of the leading socio-political myth of our times.
There can be no Christian Faith without the so-called Old Testament. The Hebrew Scriptures are the foundation of the so-called New Testament church.
Classical liberalism, libertarian Marxism, and nativist populism are vying for the Democrat and Republican parties. One of the three philosophies will be left out in partisan the cold.
We won't make America great again until we know what made America great in the first place.
We live in a cosmic war zone. If we do not allow this fact a prominent place in our spiritual calculation, we will play right into Satan's hands.
If you want to change your life, family, church, and nation, eliciting God's approval and reformation and revival, pray like Daniel.
If you what to know what Christian culture is, why we need it, and how to create it, listen to this.
The overarching social vision of the West, embraced by nearly all of its elites, springs from the revisionist Marxism of Antonio Gramsci and Herbert Marcuse. It explicitly advocates the destruction of Christian culture and its replacement with egalitarian culture — leveling all moral hierarchies except the privileged hierarchy of state-enforced secularism and/or paganism.
The life-giving sexual worldview of the Bible versus the death-dealing sexual worldview of modernity. They are antithetical.
Noah was favored by God because he walked with God, he trusted God, and he obeyed God. God did not favor Noah because he was like the ungodly world, but precisely because he was different. Sons and daughters of the Reformation must learn: God blesses obedience.
Christianity shaped Western society to such a degree that it's impossible to understand it without the Faith, which imparted our greatest cultural blessings. Ours is not a post-Christian world. It is a post-Christendom world. That's what we must revive.
While there are reasons for pessimism in our present cultural climate, realism demands optimism.
Beware of complicating the biblical picture of obedience. Obedience isn't always easy, but it's never hard to understand.
The Christian's goal, by the power of the Spirit, is to destabilize, de-legitimize, and deconstruct the abnormal world and reassert the normal world.
As long as you accept the world as it is, you'll never be a mighty man or woman of prayer. Godly prayer warriors never assume that the status quo in a sinful world is the will of God. They pray to change it.
The Gospel of Jesus Christ is God's good news calculated to overwhelm the world in very public ways. It is not simply a plan to "go to heaven" but to redeem the earth. A lecture delivered to Christian Concern in London, England.
Two objectives of consistently reasoning rebels are to (a) create an entire conceptual world in competition with the real (God's) world and (2) intimidate Christians into thinking that the sinners' fake world is the real world.
Gospel ministry is not chiefly about redeeming sinners for heaven but redeeming a sinful world in all of its dimensions. The best gospel ministers (in pulpit, classroom, auto repair shop, software lab, art house, state house, investment house) are those who practice this world-redeeming gospel.
God is jealous, and he won't allow humans to share their submission to his authority, their affection to him, and the world's allegiance to him.
Two mostly competing views of redemption have emerged among conservatives. The one we embrace shapes our entire outlook on life and eternity.
Crucial to the Christian worldview is common grace, God's kindness toward and gifts to unbelievers, and a critical means of preserving continuity in history to expand his Kingdom.
Christians must abandon their spiritual somnolence and dead orthodoxy and rouse themselves to hold onto God if they are to expect any church or cultural reformation.
You can't get the Gospel right if you get the family wrong.
Pietism, Apocalypticism, and Retreatism — these are bad church ideas that are responsible for much of the political apostasy baptizing our present society.
A wide-ranging interview by Allison Burr from "Cultivating the Kingdom" on the meaning of the Gospel, the role of Christian education, the Christianity of the American Founders, the philosophical "inward turn" of existentialism, expectation in prayer, and much, much more.