Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing – since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination.
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.
Today’s widespread relegation of religion to merely something people do only in the privacy of their homes or churches would have been unimaginable to the founders of the republic – even those who personally repudiated orthodox Christian faith.
True tolerance is not a total lack of judgment. It’s knowing what should be tolerated, and refusing to tolerate that which shouldn’t.
The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.
Let’s acknowledge that America’s increasing decadence is giving aid and comfort to the enemy. When we tolerate trash on television, permit pornography to invade our homes via the Internet, and allow babies to be killed at the point of birth, we are inflaming radical Islam.
Who speaks for God? He does quite nicely for Himself. Through His holy and infallible Word – and the quiet obedience of His servants.
The church is the only institution supernaturally endowed by God. It is the one institution of which Jesus promised that the gates of hell will not prevail against it.
God is truth and is to be worshiped, not because it’s convenient, makes us feel good, or is therapeutic.
Seventy-six percent of the American people say we have a spiritual problem in our country. That’s great, because now they understand the root of the problem is not that we haven’t passed enough laws; rather, the root of the problem is in terms of our social value system.
The church’s job is to equip the saints for works of service in the world.
I do not believe one can experience conversion or the fullness of the Christian life apart from the church.
God uses prisons to train people for future roles of leadership or martyrdom.