By Mateen Elass, posted on his personal blog. My last two blogs apparently caused a bit of a ripple in the world of liberal PCUSA leaders. I learned on July 1 that General Presbyter Mike Cole, executive of the New Covenant Presbytery (whom I have met in the past and found to be a congenial…
By Mateen Elass, on his personal blog. The Presbyterian Church (USA) has hammered one more nail into its own coffin — one wonders whether there is space for any further nails. Last Saturday, at the opening business session of its 222nd General Assembly in Portland, OR, the denominational leadership orchestrated an event which denied the gospel and lordship of…
“Allah bless us and bless our families and bless our Lord. Lead us on the straight path – the path of all the prophets: Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad,” and so went the prayer offered up by Wajidi Said, from the Portland Muslim Community, as part of the “first order of business” during…
A candidate standing for co-moderator of the 222nd General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) has written a blog in the wake of Sunday morning’s act of terrorism, equating evangelicals in the PCUSA with the Muslim extremism seen in Orlando attack. Early Sunday morning, 29-year-old Omar Mateen walked inside of the gay nightclub Pulse and began…
By Mateen Elass, posted on his personal blog site. Nowhere do the different theological visions of Islam and Christianity appear more starkly than in the Muslim denunciation of the gospel as reflected in its assessment of John 3:16, which Christians often speak of as “the gospel in a nutshell”: God so loved the world that…
Dr. r. James C. Goodloe IV, executive Director, Foundation for Reformed Theology. On Sunday, November 4, 1990, Dr. John H. Leith preached “Remembering the Protestant Reformation” at Nassau Presbyterian Church in Princeton, New Jersey. He concluded the sermon with these words on “The Challenge of Islam”: “The chief option to Christian faith in the decades that lie…
The made-up line “Follow the money” is the memorable phrase of Watergate-era American journalism. However, it was an organizing principle for intrepid reporters doggedly seeking the truth about political corruption in the 1976 movie, “All the President’s Men.” We need such an organizing principle now in our understanding of jihad. Politicians and pundits, paying attention…
Through historical reasoning and a spiritual search for God, Dr. Nabeel Qureshi found truth that led to his conversion from the Islam faith to Christianity. The international speaker and author shared his journey to seek truth and subsequent Christian conversion with approximately 1,200 people at First Presbyterian Church in Edmond, Okla., on Feb. 9. Born…
By Stoyan Zaimov Open Doors USA, a persecution watchdog organization, is urging Christians to pray during this year’s Ramadan, which will be observed by millions of Muslims around the world. “During the season of Ramadan we need to lift up in prayer our brothers and sisters in Christ who live in Islamic-dominated nations; strengthening them,…