Teaching a Pig to Sing

Sometimes, people say bad things about CBF, CBF-affiliated churches, and CBF-friendly individuals. Here are some of my responses: –The false teachers in the Bible are not the people who rely on God’s grace but the fundamentalists, the people who mistakenly...

Born On the Fourth of July

We were born as a nation on the fourth of July 229 years ago. We celebrate this beginning annually with fireworks and flag displays and a faithful re-telling of the story. We pay homage to our founders—to their vision and courage. We do this even though we know our...

The Challenge of Praying For Our Enemies

Last month my wife slipped, hit her head on the bathtub and cut a gash in back of her head. When it appeared breakfast was burning I got up to see what she was doing. Seeing her head in a pool of blood (I never saw so much blood, having never been in combat), I...

‘War of the Worlds’

With “War of the Worlds,” the man who invented the movie blockbuster proves again why he owns the patent. Steven Spielberg is the best director there is. Period. And though the former boy wonder is now handling hostile instead of friendly aliens, this...

Nation Needs Truth to Trust Government at War

President Bush tried to turn around falling public support for his invasion and occupation of Iraq in a speech before troops at Fort Bragg, N.C., on Tuesday, the very day that a U.S. Chinook helicopter with 17 crew members was reportedly shot down in Afghanistan, the...