The Bible’s power rests upon the fact that it is the reliable, errorless, and infallible Word of God.
Some say society must change in order to change people. No, people must be changed in order to change society.
The church does not draw people in; it sends them out.
The gospel of Jesus Christ must be the bad news of the conviction of sin before it can be the Good News of redemption. The truth is revealed in God’s Holy Word; life can be lived only in absolute and disciplined submission to its authority.
The problem is that relativism provides no sure foundation for a safe and orderly society.
Some labeled Jerry Falwell an American version of the Ayatollah Khomeni. People for the American Way, a group organized to counter the Moral Majority, launched a slick media campaign attaching the Nazi slur to the religious right.
Many people are trying to remove religion from public life. Under the banner of pluralism, cultural and political leaders are seeking to push all talk about God out of the public arena.
The Bible-banned, burned, beloved-is more widely read and more frequently attacked than any other book in history.
God is dead not because He doesn’t exist, but because we live, play, procreate, govern, and die as though He doesn’t.
Today’s marginalization of Christianity is a direct result of our failure to understand our faith as a total worldview.
I’d walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon.
Life is a mess. And theology must be lived out in the midst of that mess.
Lenin, Stalin, and Rakosi recognized that a renewed and purified Christianity was the only force that could move the masses as powerfully as the Marxist ideal could. They attacked it as the enemy that it was and is.
It’s part of the buzz of the city among Christians. It wouldn’t surprise me that it got to George Bush. He reads, he picks stuff up, he talks to people. And he’s pretty serious about his own Christian beliefs.
Removing religious symbols from public places is not neutrality. On the contrary, it sends a highly negative message – that religion is something shameful, embarrassing, or at best strictly private.
Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we’re currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity.
That Solidarity was a religious movement no one, least of all the Soviets, can deny. In November 1981, Pravda denounced ‘religious fanaticism’ as a grave challenge to socialism; failure to contain it, Pravda said, was at the root of the problems in Poland.
The dynamism and freedom that characterizes the West is the product of Christianity’s reforming itself and moving forward culturally. The ascendancy of the West is the story of the difference that Christianity makes, and it’s a story we can’t let our culture forget.
You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.
If the polls are right, our Judeo-Christian heritage is no longer the foundation of our values. We have become a post-Christian society.