By James W. Miller Special to The Layman News agencies throughout the world burst into Biblical deconstruction this week with the announcement of a new archaeological find about camels. The discovery, published in Tel Aviv Journal out of Tel Aviv University, was that domesticated camels didn’t appear on the scene in Israel until around the…
By American Bible Society To conduct effective ministry, American Bible Society wants to know what U.S. cities embrace the best-selling book of all time. Chattanooga, Tenn., ranks No. 1, according to American Bible Society’s study, America’s Most Bible-Minded Cities. Knoxville, Tenn., claimed last year’s top spot. America’s Most Bible-Minded Cities, our second consecutive study, shows…
By Ed Stetzer Yesterday I was asked, along with many others, to comment on Sunday night’s Grammy Awards for BreakPoint, a Christian worldview ministry and blog. Below are my thoughts on the 2014 Grammy Awards, as originally posted here. The cultural highlight of the Grammys would certainly be Queen Latifah overseeing a mass marriage ceremony….
Like all of those in the Presbyterian Church (USA) ordination track, I took courses in Biblical Greek and Hebrew in seminary. The rationale is that teaching elders should be able to translate the extant texts of the Bible from the languages in which they were originally penned. I readily admit that I did not “keep”…
By Joseph Scheumann All Christians suffer. Either you have, you are, or you will — “through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God” (Acts 14:22). This reality is a stark reminder that we have not reached the new heavens and new earth. The new Jerusalem of no tears and no pain, of no…
By Cristina Corbin On a rainy afternoon last Spring, American pastor Eric Foley and his wife stood in a muddy field near the North Korea border and prayed – their hands clasped to a 40-foot homemade balloon that would carry Bibles to the communist dictatorship’s underground Christians. “I get choked up, every time, as I…
By Susan Fikse “This will require constructive efforts that describe how sex transcendently, metaphysically bonds husbands and wives in beautiful ways. It will also involve describing the monstrosity of divorce and the tragic suffering of disordered desire.” — Greg Forster, author of “The Joy of Calvinism” The dominoes are falling toward the legality of gay…
By Stanton L. Jones It’s one of today’s most difficult conversations, but one increasingly impossible to avoid. The spiritual, political, and emotional implications make this topic explosive. How can pastors talk realistically and redemptively with those seeking pastoral guidance about same sex attraction? We asked Stan Jones, who has academic, professional, and personal experience in…
By Tyler O’Neil Last month, a professor and former dean of theology who changed gender identities argued that the Bible defends those who renounce their birth gender, while a leading biblical expert on homosexuality said it condemns them as an “abomination.” “I was dying last year because I couldn’t live that way anymore. .. I…
The organization is called “The Reformation Project.” The stated purpose is to “re-educate the church concerning gay activity” by spreading the idea in conservative American churches over the next decade that the Bible “allows for monogamous homosexual activity.” The man behind the effort is 23 year old Matthew Vines who self-identifies as same-sex attracted. The method is…