Atheists On The Attack

It seems that rational discourse is dead in our day. Instead of trying to compete in the world of ideas, it is becoming more and more common to simply go on the attack in an attempt to silence those with whom a person disagrees. That is the case in the attack on Vision Forum. Now, however you may disagree with Doug Phillips and the folks at VF, understand that this attack is dishonest and vile. I can assure you that, if I knew how, I would not do this to an atheist. Today, in the early hours of May 17, Vision Forum began to receive the first in an ongoing and unprecedented attack to neutralize our website. The attack coincided with what appears to be a concerted and ongoing effort from within the atheist and homosexual community to manipulate an online poll to VF readers, and transform the VF Facebook page into a forum for homosexuals and opponents of Christianity to mock Christianity. The attack successfully curtailed our ability to make some products available to customers today, successfully undermined the integrity of an online poll, and was successful in placing profanities, blasphemies and offensive content on our Facebook page. Here [...] Continue reading

Must Churches Have Small Groups (A Small Groups Ministry for Growth, Discipleship and Fellowship)?

I keep finding churches that have small group ministries (called SGMs going forward). This isn’t unusual. Plenty of churches have been into this idea of small groups for a while now—more so in the mega-churches. Thousands of people going through … Continue reading Continue reading

Author Interview: Andrew Comings on The Astonishing Adventures of Missionary Max

As a follow up to my recent review of The Astonishing Adventures of Missionary Max, I was able to get the author to answer some interview questions. The interview highlights the motives behind this exciting project. Since I’m the book review editor for Sharper Iron, I posted this interview and the review there as well, [...] Continue reading

Author Interview: Andrew Comings on The Astonishing Adventures of Missionary Max

As a follow up to my recent review of The Astonishing Adventures of Missionary Max, I was able to get the author to answer some interview questions. The interview highlights the motives behind this exciting project. Since I’m the book review editor for Sharper Iron, I posted this interview and the review there as well, [...] Continue reading

Charles Hodge On The Imago Dei

The Reformed theologians take the middle ground between the extremes of making the image of God to consist exclusively in man’s rational nature, or exclusively in his moral conformity to his Maker. They distinctly include both… While, therefore, the Scriptures make the original moral perfection of man the most prominent element of that likeness to God in which he was created, it is no less true that they recognize man as a child of God in virtue of his rational nature. He is the image of God, and bears and rejects the divine likeness among the inhabitants of the earth, because he is a spirit, an intelligent, voluntary agent; and as such he is rightfully invested with universal dominion. This is what the Reformed theologians were accustomed to call the essential image of God, as distinguished from the accidental. The one consisting in the very nature of the soul, the other in its accidental endowments, that is, such as might be lost without the loss of humanity itself. Hodge, Charles. Systematic Theology, vol2, pg 98-99. Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1997. Continue reading