But even if you should suffer for the sake of righteousness, you are blessed. And do not fear their intimidation, and do not be troubled, but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you yet with gentleness and reverence; and keep a good conscience so that in the thing in which you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ will be put to shame. 1 Peter 3: 14-16
3 Reasons to Fight Self-Pity
If I look hard enough, I can always find some reason to feel sorry for myself. I bet you can, too. Whether your gaze drifts to your bank account, your work, your health, your relationships – there is always some circumstances in our lives that can make us feel victimized.
And it feels...
Open-Door Discipleship
If you were to visit my house on a Friday night around 10 o'clock, you would likely find our floors and couches full of people. Friday in our family is Family Movie Night, a night we treasure having each week. Something my wife and I love is that our kids have come to...
February 21: Caspar Wistar Hodge [1830-1891]
February 21, 1830 marks the birth of Caspar Wistar Hodge, youngest son of Dr. Charles Hodge, named after the eminent physician Caspar Wistar [1761-1818]. Another of Dr. Hodge’s sons, Archibald Alexander Hodge, also taught at Princeton Theological Seminary. The Rev. Dr. Caspar...
10 Things to Know About Ministry Among the Poor
1. Please stop thinking of ministry to the poor only in terms of mercy ministry.
Often, well meaning rich churches and/or middle-class Christians come into financially poorer communities to do good works, usually in the form of a handout or some form of debt counseling....
God as the Composer of the World (An Excerpt from the book God's Big Picture)
Does the melody of your life carry a tune of harmony or discord? Where can we find the order we need to play the right notes?
Vaughan Roberts explains how music serves as a metaphor for our relationship with God in his book God’s Big Picture: Tracing the Storyline of the Bible:
God is the...
Theological Minutia Matters
Who needs theological education? Doesn’t theology just lead to mind-numbing debates over insignificant matters? Only theological eggheads insist on parsing doctrines and dogmas until powerful, life-changing experiences with God get dissected and reassembled as stale and crusty formulas. Who...
Faith, Rationality, and the Limits of Science Featured
While I am not a scientist, I have long been a keen student of philosophy, including the philosophy of science. And like all other types of philosophy – political philosophy, moral philosophy, etc – there are various worldview commitments that one takes to this particular field of study....
Al Mohler Orthodox Featured
From time to time at Pulpit & Pen, we employee a term of our own invention: website orthodox. This term is used to describe a Christian public figure whose confession of faith (as published on his...Authors: Seth Dunn...
Lost Found
Abortion Worker Tells Parent to Flush Baby Down Toilet if Born Alive, Drown the Baby in a Jar of Solution
The abortion industry is a sick and twisted system. Abortion doctors and workers are — literally — hitmen for hire.
The post Abortion Worker Tells Parent to Flush Baby Down Toilet if Born Alive, Drown the Baby in a Jar of Solution appeared first on Reformation Charlotte.
Authors:...
Al Mohler Orthodox Featured
Hate Hoaxes Are What Happen When Your Religion Is Identity Politics
When Christianity was still a baby religion, it dealt with its first case of hypocrisy. The Bible records the story in Acts 5: Ananias and Sapphira, a married couple in the church at Jerusalem, sold a piece of property. They made it known that they were donating all their proceeds to the poor, but...
The Guy On The Screen Is Not Your Pastor
Authors: R. Scott Clark...
An elite disconnect
Christians Don’t Live in Fear
I’ve been having a conversation on our Facebook page with a man who objects to my post “Christians Don’t View Jesus as a Means to an End.” He insists Christians are motivated only by the “carrots and sticks” of Heaven and Hell, despite my explanation.
I think the...
At UGA with Ivan, the Evolutionist
Episode 2445
At UGA with Ivan, the Evolutionist
Segment 1 (00:00) Easy Questions
Segment 2 (08:04) Tough Answers
Segment 3 (14:55) Objective Truth
Wretched Surprise! (26:08) Grace Gem: C.H. Spurgeon
The post At UGA with Ivan, the Evolutionist appeared first on Wretched.
Authors: samueljroys...
Naturalized miracles
“One Day We’ll be Ashamed of Trump’s Refugee Policy” says Russell Moore of the George Soros Funded Evangelical Immigration Table Featured
[Reformation Charlotte] The Evangelical Immigration Table is a branch of the National Immigration Forum which is heavily funded by George Soros. Russell Moore, head of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission is on the...Authors: Cherie Vandermillen...
Rules of the closet
- For a long time the priesthood was the ideal escape-route for young homosexuals. Homosexuality is one of the keys to their vocation. (8)
- Homosexuality spreads the closer one gets to the holy of holies; there are more and more homosexuals as one rises through the Catholic...
Russell Moore: SBC Churches Need to Disciple the Transgender Featured
[Reformation Charlotte] One of the new sexually perverted infiltrations in the Church now is the softening stance on gender identity. The influence is coming in through homosexual activists like Sam Allberry, who recently held...Authors: Cherie Vandermillen...
More Wolves and False Teachings
Be Forewarned UnWoke Churches: SBC Approves “Disfellowship” Language Featured
[Reformation Charlotte] Southern Baptists are leading the way in the cultural Marxist “woke” movement. The movement is a mass structured attack on white people using Marxist ideology right out of the Frankfurt School’s playbook....Authors: Cherie Vandermillen...
Catholic Diocese Threatens to Sue Over Photo Release of Gay Priests Snuggling, Kissing Featured
A Romanist discernment site publicized photographs of two Catholic priests engaged in amorous embrace, nuzzling and kissing. In response to releasing the photographs of the (clearly gay) priests, the overseeing bishop threatened to sue...Authors: News Division...
Hijacking reality
"Transgenderism is an experiment to test how far reality can be hijacked. If you can make people agree that men are women, you can make them agree to anything." https://t.co/el8FpACQQW
Authors: steve...
Blurring the Lines of Unity and Discernment
A sobering time for Baptists, but a chance to get it right
Every once in a while, moments arrive that have a different feeling. Often it’s difficult to go back and see when things could go in one direction or the other for an individual and organization. Other times, it’s easy to see.
The message presented by Southern Baptist Convention...
The Left and Identity Politics Featured
The issue of identity politics is a relatively recent one. It did not exist as it now does just a few short decades ago. But today we see it occurring throughout the West. It certainly is evident in a pronounced way in America, but Australia is seeing it being played out as well.
While the term...
Heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ Featured
by Mike Ratliff
12 So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh— 13 for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14 For all who are being led by...
Review: Geronimo Stilton’s The Discovery of America
In continuing with our blog’s “wee-kids Wednesdays” this week’s review of a children’s book isn’t a Christian work but still something homeschool kids and parents would appreciate!
Geronimo Stilton. The Discovery of America.New York, NY: Papercutz, August...
Lesbian Claims Baptist Upbringing Caused Her Anxiety Disorder Featured
According to one lesbian, being raised a Baptist and having been taught the virtue of chastity was traumatic and causes her to have debilitating anxiety. Writing for the Huffington Post, Hannah Brashers recalled her...Authors: News Division...
12 things churches can do to protect minors
For a podcast produced by the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board on this topic, click here.
- Institute the Two-Adult Rule: There must always be at least two adults in the room, in the car, in the van, or anywhere that minors are gathered. These two can NOT be husband and wife.
- Institute the...
Does All Meaning in the Universe Center Around Human Beings?
Recently a good friend of mine, who is an atheist, who seems convinced of total depravity, sent me a Joe Rogan Experience podcast episode (Parental Guidance recommended) where his guest, a world-renowned physicist makes some astonishing claims. Professor Brian Cox is an English physicist and...
02/20/2019
•Why won’t anyone tell Todd what he should believe?
•Travis is pretty convinced of his atheism, sort of.
•A tip to architecture students.
•What do the Vietnamese believe?
"A Prophet Like Me" -- Deuteronomy 18:9-22
An Introduction to the Minor Prophets (Part One)
When I announce that we are about to begin a series on the “Minor Prophets,” what is your first thought? Ugh . . . They have something to do with the Old Testament? Right? Short biblical books with weird...
Announcing Our 2019 Southern Ontario Conference
Christianity is not simply one truth among many. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life, and no one can know the Father except through Him (John 14:6). But in this skeptical and relativistic age, Christians may find it difficult to stand for what is true. After all, telling the truth often means...
Fasting: What it is and what it isn't Featured
Marxist Pope Francis Restores Priest Removed by John Paul II for Being a Communist Revolutionary Featured
John Paul II, who helped battle communism around the world, placed a sanction on a Nicaraguan priest for being a Communist and for adhering to Liberation Theology. Now, Pope Francis – who many regard...Authors: News Division...
Confirmed: A Secret Vatican Rulebook for Priests Who Get Women Pregnant Does Exist Featured
The Roman Catholic church has required its priests to be celibate since Pope Gregory VII issued his decree in the 11th Century, then reaffirmed the prohibition against marriage at the Second Lateran Council in...Authors: News Division...
Joseph’s Life and Lessons, Part 5
Last time we discussed aspects of Joseph’s life, it took us through Genesis 41:45. We learned that Joseph was raised up out of prison and became the second in command under Pharaoh. I’m sure Joseph never saw this coming when he was first sold into slavery by jealous brothers at the...
A Reason for These Astonishing Contradictions (Pascal)
I always enjoy reading Blaise Pascal. Here are two paragraphs from a section of his writings called, “Morality and Doctrine”:
The greatness and the wretchedness of man are so evident that the true religion must necessarily teach us both that there is in man some great source...
Baptizing the Thief on the Cross
“Well, we all know that the thief on the cross wasn’t baptized!”
If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a...
Woman on YouTube Says God Told Her ‘There Are Fake Christians on YouTube to Deceive the Elect’
Sometimes, stories just write themselves. The complete and total lack of self-awareness that comes across with the modern-day false prophets
The post Woman on YouTube Says God Told Her ‘There Are Fake Christians on YouTube to Deceive the Elect’ appeared first on Reformation Charlotte.
Auth...
HBC Naples Interim Pastor States Cardinal Rule of Elders: “Never Share Dissention or Disagreement to the Church or Publicly” Featured
[Julie Roys | julieroys.com] Given that Harvest Bible Chapel is allowing its Naples campus to return to being an autonomous church, many have wondered why John Secrest, the founding pastor of that church who was fired by...Authors: Cherie Vandermillen...
“Institutional Bait and Switch”: Judge Rules Lawsuit Against Obama’s Plan to Build Library on Park Land to Continue Featured
[Anna Giaritelli | Washington Examiner] A federal judge on Tuesday dealt a blow to President Barack Obama’s presidential center in Chicago by allowing a lawsuit against the project to continue. Protect Our Parks, Inc., along...Authors: Cherie Vandermillen...
An Unexpected (and Largely Unnoticed) Testimony to the Sanctity of Life Featured
The pro-abortion movement basis its arguments on it’s fundamental claim of “a woman’s right to choose.” Laws, according to this ideology, should guarantee the woman’s freedom of choice and autonomy over her own body. If a woman decides for any reason, at any...
Former Harvest Bible Chapel Worship Leader Says James MacDonald Touched Her Inappropriately
CP — James MacDonald, who was recently fired as senior pastor at Harvest Bible Chapel, is now facing an allegation
The post Former Harvest Bible Chapel Worship Leader Says James MacDonald Touched Her Inappropriately appeared first on Reformation Charlotte.
Authors: Reformation Charlotte...
Will the first 250m Lawsuit Start Breaking the Back of the Corrupt Media? We Can Only Hope So Featured
[Madison Summers | ijr] The Covington Catholic High School student who recently made waves in headlines over an alleged incident in a viral video is now filing a defamation lawsuit against The Washington Post, among...Authors: Cherie Vandermillen...
Transcriptions
Things have been fairly quiet around here lately, unfortunately. However, I have been producing regular videos/podcasts over on my other blog. One of the things that I have been hoping to do is to produce transcriptions of all of my videos, so that people without the time to watch a video or listen...
Southern Baptist head calls for reforms, potential removal of multiple Houston churches – HoustonChronicle.com
NASHVILLE, Tenn.— The president of the Southern Baptist Convention on Monday evening called for a “season of lament, sorrow, and repentance” over a sexual abuse crisis, and provided a list of 10 churches, including Second Baptist Church in Houston, that he said should be...
Dialogue with a Buddhist philosopher
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