Christianity and Culture

Are Churches Secularizing America?

March 1, 2008

Evangelicalism, in practice, is losing its interest in God and the grand story of his saving work in Jesus Christ.

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Encountering Islam: How Should Reformed Christians Respond to Islam?

January 1, 2008

The Reformed church has one duty toward our Muslim neighbors: to bring the gospel to bear upon their souls as we have the opportunity.

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Are You in God’s Story?

October 1, 2007

As Christians we are a part of a grand narrative that revolves around God's purposes in creation, redemption, and the age to come.

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Suffering and a Theology of Glory

October 1, 2007

There is no place for suffering in the quintessentially American religion of Joel Osteen's theology of glory.

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What Ever Happened to Sin?

October 1, 2007

Joel Osteen's “good news” turns out to be the worst possible news-God's blessing on my life depends on my own good works.

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Joel Osteen and the Glory Story

October 1, 2007

Those who preach a gospel of “a personal relationship with God” fail to realize that everyone has a relationship with God already: either as a condemned criminal or as a justified co-heir with Christ.

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Protestants and the Pope

July 1, 2005

The silence of Protestants to false claims about the papacy said much about the state of Protestantism today.

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Cracking Da Vinci’s Code

July 1, 2004

Dan Brown's novel is neither a piece of harmless fiction nor a neutral, objective restatement of the “facts.”

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How to Discover Your Calling

May 1, 1999

In these promiscuous times, we often reduce a calling to a job and thereby find little satisfaction.

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Vocabulary

November 14, 1991

As Christians, we must keep biblical words and categories of thought as foundational to our own.

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