cartoon: God at gunpoint

nakedpastor May 14th, 2012

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(If you're on the front page of the site, click the title of this post to see the cartoon.)

These guys are using the bible to hold God hostage. They are using the bible to affirm their own ideas about God, then imposing these ideas on God. Their God is not free, but a god who does everything they believe and say.

Convenient and rampant. But catastrophic.

nakedpastor is David Hayward. David is an artist, cartoonist and writer. Go to nakedpastor.com for more carto … (Read More)

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The Last Christian on Earth – Os Guinness on SBE

Erik Guzman May 21st, 2010

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The modern world is choking the life out of the Church in the West. Don't believe me? Watch this. Then join bestselling author and social critic Os Guinness on this week's Steve Brown Etc.

(If you're on the front page of the site, click "Read More" to see the video link and audio player options.)

If you're saddened by the shallow and ineffectual state of the Church in America, listen as we talk with Os Guinness about his new book, The La … (Read More)

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Sometimes, I don’t like any of the answers.

Michael Spencer July 28th, 2009

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Sometimes, I don't like any of the answers.

Let's take the problem of suffering. My friend Glenda recently had a serious bleed-out in her brain. It looked for a while like she wasn't going to make it. After a coma, two surgeries and some miraculous responses to treatment, she's at a rehab center dealing with a relatively small amount of residual consequences.

This weekend at church, we were rejoicing in Glenda's recovery. One person kept saying … (Read More)

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What is Just War Theory?

Kenneth Samples August 21st, 2007

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Through the centuries Christian thinkers have taken different positions on the controversial subject of war. Three broad theories concerning the morality of war for the Christian can be identified: activism, pacifism, and selectivism. Activism asserts that it is virtually always right to participate in war. Strict pacifism insists that it is never morally right to partake in war. Selectivism argues that it is sometimes right to take part in war.

Just war theory is a typ … (Read More)

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Watching Theology, Etc.

Erik Guzman July 13th, 2007

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Christians and Hollywood have a checkered past. It seems that if we're not shunning movies altogether (or watching "Christian" films); we're fishing for sermon illustrations, Christ figures, and redemptive themes in movies where they just don't exist.

Joe and Melissa Johnson from the podcast Watching Theology are a different breed. They approach a film the way a theologian examines a Biblical text, looking at its philosophical and thematic ele … (Read More)

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The Good News of Cheap Grace

Erik Guzman July 9th, 2007

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For years, Steve Brown has been giving away free sins (as an aside, now you can too, click here). As you can imagine, this gets some people's undies in a bunch. To them, it's "cheap grace" and foolishness. But to those who are so bad as to need God's unconditional love and acceptance, it's incredibly good news…even the power of God for salvation.

Now, if you really believed God likes you and that you don't have to worry about … (Read More)

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