Justice Thomas then narrates the rise of progressivism and its advances in America in the early 20th century, which challenged the premises of the Declaration and the Constitution
The Bride of Christ commits adultery when she beds down with anything other than Christ. Yet the seduction in our time is intense, as principles are forgotten in the passion of pressing issues.
Karl Marx saw people not as individuals made in the imago Dei—the Judeo-Christian conception of human beings made in the image of God—but as groups to be shoved into opposing categories pitted against one another as foes.
In a world void of strong courageous heroes and sterilized of risk, boys are disappearing into fantasy. Superheroes replace real-life role-models and virtual video games become substitutes for real-life challenges.
For Christians who are homosexually inclined, the narrow gate of salvation can be hard and painful. But all Christians must be prepared for the hard and painful gate where “conversion therapy” laws are passed. Turning from sin to God and the righteousness he has revealed is at the heart of the Gospel.
Kanter Freedom is the type of American citizen our country desperately needs. He will be called Freedom because he appreciates what all Americans still possess, which is the right to act, speak, write, and think without restraint.
We are angry but not desperate, mad but not humble, and enraged but not broken. What will it take to break us? The red, white, and blue cannot save us, but the crimson blood of Christ can.
But as convenient as it is for us to shop from home in our pajamas, tablet in hand, talking on a Bluetooth device, and listening to Pandora, could all this technology actually be killing us spirituality?
Unresolved stress can ruin church leadership. In fact, it can turn normally humble pastors into tyrants. When the causes of stress go ignored, when a pastor refuses to deal with the root of stress, then leadership becomes impaired.
So why did he do it? Nathanson writes, “Simple arithmetic: at $300.00 times 1.55 million abortions means an industry generating $500,000,000 annually, of which most goes into the pocket of the physician doing the abortion.”