by Peter James | Aug 22, 2024 | Benjamin Tucker Tanner
You can make the Bible say most anything you want. Here’s how it works. Extrapolate a passage from its immediate context, ignore its original intent, and exploit it to suit your own agenda. The practice is called proof-texting, and it’s lethal in its...
by Peter James | Aug 21, 2024 | Matt Mayer/Matt Redman
When our children were young, they loved watching Sesame Street. True confession: I enjoyed watching it with them. The puppets are simply the best. Forgetful Jones, dressed in cowboy attire with his girlfriend Clementine, were among my favorites. True to his name,...
by Peter James | Aug 20, 2024 | Dorothy Day
Doubt gets a bad rap in church circles. To my way of thinking, unbelief is the antithesis of faith, not doubt. Doubt is somewhere in the middle, suspended halfway between belief and unbelief. Doubt can go either way. There are two kinds of doubt in Scripture. There is...
by Peter James | Aug 19, 2024 | Robert Boyd Munger
It may be the most widely distributed sermon of the twentieth century. Robert Boyd Munger (1911-2001) first preached his “My Heart–Christ’s Home” sermon at the Berkeley Presbyterian Church in California in 1949. It was published a few years...
by Peter James | Aug 18, 2024 | Harry D. Clarke
Let me take you back to an evangelistic meeting in the early 1920s at Trinity Evangelical Church in Shamokin, Pennsylvania (yep, it’s an actual town). A man who, in the opinion of those present at the meeting, “was under the influence of alcohol”...
