Dr. Owen Strachan, Professor at Boyce College, Louisville, Kentucky and President of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW) did a terrific job on a brief media interview on the subject of religious liberty on college campuses. He was specifically addressing the recent decision by the administration at Bowdoin College. We’ve seen this at Vanderbilt and elsewhere in the last few years. By the way, visit www.cbmw.org for great resources.
In Faith he Dy’d; in Dust he lies But faith foresees that Dust shall rise When JESUS calls, while Hope Assumes And boasts her joy among the tombs from the grave of Alexander Peronneau, 12 year old boy, died 1747, found in the graveyard of the Circular Congregational Church Charleston, South Carolina
Richard Baxter, from The Reformed Pastor, chapter 1: The most holy men are the most excellent students of God’s works, and none but the holy can rightly study them or know them. His works are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein,” but not for themselves, but for him that made them. Your study of physics and other sciences is not worth a rush, if it be not God that you seek after in them. To see and admire, to reverence and adore, to love and delight in God, as exhibited in his works—this is the true and only…
On July 8, 1741, Jonathan Edwards preached what may the most famous sermon ever preached in North America: “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” Follow the links below to find more about the sermon, and Edwards. The conclusion of the…
Today (July 7) in 1878, Francis Grimké was ordained as a Presbyterian minister. He was born in Charleston, SC to a white father (a slaveholding planter) and an enslaved mother (of European and African descent). He would eventually move North,…
Many of us are familiar with the inspiring story of the audacious German monk, Martin Luther, nailing his Ninety-Five Theses to the church door in Wittenberg on October 31, 1517. Lots of us know that one of his great concerns was the doctrine of…
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (based Psalm 103/150), 1680 Praise to the Lord, the Almighty is one of the very best hymns (thinking of the combination of text and tune) written in the last three hundred fifty years, and it is no surprise that it is…
This day in 1962 (July 5) the famous American neo-orthodox theologian H. Richard Niebuhr died. He wrote an important book Christ and Culture and in his work The Kingdom of God in America he criticized liberal social gospel teaching, describing its…
Lord, like the publican, I stand, and lift my heart up unto to Thee; Thy pard’ning grace, O God, command, and be Thou merciful to me. I own my sin before your sight and do concede my guilt to Thee; O save my soul from its dire plight, and be Thou merciful to me. My fault, my shame, I all confess; I have no hope, no debate, no plea, but Jesus’ blood and righteousness, so be Thou merciful to me. Here at Thy cross I still would wait, nor from its shelter would I flee, till…