Until about two weeks ago, American Pastor Andrew Brunson been held in a Turkish prison without charges. Now he has been indicted for being a member of a group led by exiled Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen which the Turkish government says is responsible for a failed July 2016 coup attempt. CBN News reports: The American…
Category: Battle Lines
Bringing Sanity to a Fallen World: Idaho Health Care Part 2
In a recent post, I noted how Idaho is “the national leader in bringing sanity to our health care system.” Some conservatives, though, appealing to the rule of law, have objected to Idaho’s efforts because they are illegal under ObamaCare. Best I can tell, though, Idaho has done nothing to violate federal law. They have…
Bringing Sanity to Fallen World: Idaho Health Care Edition
Idaho appears the national leader now in bringing sanity to our health care system. Not that you would know it from the many complaints about what they are doing, as seen in the article in The New York Times: Some groups representing patients, including the American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Association and the lobbying…
Six Reasons Reformed Christians Should Embrace Six-Day Creation
The great debate of our time is the exact same debate that took place at the beginning of the world: under whose authority do we live? Adam and Eve decided it was under their own authority, although soon they discovered they had been deceived and had in fact placed themselves under Satan’s authority. The world today still…
Fighting Baptists and Fussy Presbyterians
Baptists still know how to fight. I am a Presbyterian, but I sometimes think that all the fighting Presbyterians were killed in the American War for Independence. Modern Presbyterians are unparalleled at writing histories of battles, and three-inch thick theologies of surface-to-air missiles. So credit where credit is due. John Frame once wrote about the…
Liberalism’s Assault on Reality
The public outcry over the 2005 U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Kelo v. New London at least equaled that over the more recent cases involving ObamaCare (Sebelius) and gay marriage (Obergefell). In his dissent, Justice Clarence Thomas explained the reason behind the public’s dismay: This deferential shift in phraseology enables the Court to hold, against…
A World at War: Retreat or Reconciliation?
We live in a world at war. A war that has been raging (Psalm 2) since Adam defied God and abandoned Eve to Satan’s deceit to get a taste of some forbidden fruit. From the beginning of this war, God’s enemies (Satan’s offspring) have waged war against God by attacking His subjects (the woman’s offspring),…
Young Earth or Old? The Battle Over the Authority of Scripture
The Washington Post recently published a book review of Reading the Rocks by Brenda Maddox. The review’s title, “When the earth’s story defies religious belief,” expresses the reviewer’s assumption that the earth’s story is not always in accordance with Scripture. As we are fallen people in a fallen world, such an assumption is not a…
Texas, Andrew White, Abortion, and the PCA
Andrew White is a Democrat running for his party’s nomination for Texas Governor. He supports Roe v. Wade and opposes any further restrictions on abortion. So far, so good. Well, you know what I mean–opposing abortion restrictions is what Democrats do. The twist, however, it that White is an elder of a Houston church that…
Race in America: Liberalism’s Attack on Minorities and the Church
We live in a world at war. A war that has been waging since Adam defied God and abandoned Eve to Satan’s deceit to get a taste of the forbidden fruit. Unfortunately, the church too often also falls for this deceit and retreats, unable to recognize the battles lines forming around us. Race in America:…