Resurrecting Liberalism
Modern conservatives know that they’re actually old-time liberals and should reclaim the term. Read the article here.
P. Andrew Sandlin, Center for Cultural Leadership
Modern conservatives know that they’re actually old-time liberals and should reclaim the term. Read the article here.
Those celebrating the repeal of Roe v. Wade should not be limited to the pro-lifers who rightly see it as an avenue towards reduced abortions, but it should be pro-choicers…
Creating a church environment safe for the self-satisfied, unrepentant same-sex attracted ( = tempted) is really a gateway drug to the practice of homosexuality. Read the article here.
The utopian revolutionaries are savaging every last residue of Christian culture, and the church’s double-decker Christianity has abetted the savagery. Read here.
The ascended Lord is presently ruler of the nations, trampling down his enemies by Spirit, gospel and law, and our prayer, evangelism, and life should aggressively reflect this cosmic reign…
Satan offers man an alternative reality to God’s good created world, but God in Christ is de-privileging, deconstructing, and demolishing that world. Listen here.
Only jot-and-tittle Christianity can vanquish the evils in the modern church and world. Read the rest here.
The self-appointed champions of the oppressed menace the world. Read it here.
“Leftists lust to kill … because they lust to lust.” Read the article here .
“Every church and every pulpit is political. The only question is: Whose politics?” Read here.
“True liberalism holds much more in common with modern conservatism than either does with 21st century progressivism.” Read it here.
“Ancient pagan views of man infested the church and have led to Christian withdrawal from God’s good world. Easter radically overturns this error.” Read the rest here.
PEOPLE MAKE CULTURES, but cultures make people. In The Character of Nations, Angelo Codevilla shows that over time, the distinctives of a political regime create a particular kind of individual…
Deeply entrenched ideas die hard, and this includes bad ideas, even (perhaps especially) bad ideas in Christian history. Examples abound, but one of the most prominent is the gradual shift…
We must not refuse to stand with majorities when they are right, any more than we may stand with majorities when they are wrong, simply because they are majorities. Read…
Books, like people, shape and reshape our lives. Here are the ones that shaped and reshaped mine. Read it here.
Stephen C. Perks’ latest iconoclastic essay bluntly dismisses Protestantism as a failure and offers a renaissance of the apostolic kingdom of God as the only viable replacement. Read the article…
David L. Bahnsen is Founder, Managing Partner, and Chief Investment Officer of The Bahnsen Group, overseeing the management of over $3.5 billion in client assets. Prior to launching The Bahnsen…
Jesus’ victorious Satan-crushing gospel = Paul’s cross-and-resurrection salvation gospel. Read the post here.
To lure sinners with the delights of eternal life while obscuring the demands of Christ’s Lordship over them is a supreme evangelistic cruelty. Read the post here.
“There is no God standing behind or above Jesus Christ. To try to get behind the Bible to the “real” God is a form of idolatry, framing God in man’s…
I Corinthians 16:13….”act like men”. There is something which has struck me over the past couple of years, as it relates to men in our culture. That is, the jettisoning…
If you want to get vaxxed, get vaxxed. If you don’t want to get vaxxed, don’t get vaxxed. If you want to wear a mask, wear one. If you don’t…
Of the many hundreds of articles my late godly mother wrote, none has moved me as deeply as this one. If you feel your life is an irreversible series of…
If we don’t have Christian crusaders in the culture, Christian crusaders in family and church won’t matter much. Read the article here.
God loves to bury His people beneath an avalanche of promises. It’s remarkable how our orthodoxy tends to extend to everything except trusting his promises. Listen here.
Exposing a great deception by the Father of Lies. A short, blunt message for Christian young people. Listen here.
The Bible does not hold up the saints of those eras as enjoying more successful prayer lives than ours. Listen here.
Alien worldviews in the church have rendered it impotent against an unbelieving cultural onslaught. Listen here.
“T4G has painfully learned that because theology is the fruit of worldview, a generally sound theology, while creditable, is no guarantee of biblical fidelity.” Read the rest here.
A short autobiographical message on the power of prayer to change a life. Listen here. Also: One striking difference between our Christian forebears and us is their repeated emphasis on…
Rebuilding Christian culture demands restoring the multi-polar society.
As I observe from a distance the current debate in major conservative denominations over the possibility of employing aspects of Critical Theory (CT), including Critical Race Theory, keeping the meat and…
Never assume the U. S. has escaped the caste system. The late Angelo Codevilla has devised the monikers “Ruling Class” and “Country Class” to describe the castes that bitterly divide…
Statism is tolerant of any ideas and actions that will guarantee and enhance its own authority, and undermines or dilutes institutions like the family and the church that compete with…
Fundamentalism, while sincere, sold virile Christianity into 20th century cultural bondage, and wherever it rears its head, it ends up emboldening that cultural depravity. Read the article here.
Biblical law relating to protecting human life is preventive, not preemptive. Aside from preventing the reckless, direct threat to human life, civil law may not intrude on human liberty. Read…
No single human factor contributes more to the advance of Christ’s kingdom than mighty, faith-drenched, persevering prayer. Listen here.
All of those justified in Jesus Christ are eternally secure, but all who abandon the Faith are without hope and destined to eternal judgment. Listen here.
“To de-objectify the Faith is to overturn divinely established institutions like the church. To de-subjectivize the Faith is to undercut divinely mandated internal consecration. Both are fatal.” Read the article…
“If we’re united to Jesus Christ, we will persevere and cannot apostatize, and we can have rock-solid assurance that we cannot.” Read the rest here.
Saturday, December 4 Center for Cultural Leadership Annual Symposium in San Francisco 9 AM — 3 PM Includes catered lunch in a four-star hotel on the Bay Theme: Un-Virtuous Economics:…
“The ‘inward turn’ of modernity has finally transformed every autonomous human into a rebellious reality-manufacturer and reduced muscular public Christianity to a jejune private mystery religion.” Read the rest here.
“The worldview that gave us Gay Pride Month could never have given us the free society, and, if unchecked, will decimate it.” Read the rest here.
Brian G. Mattson is a public theologian, Senior Scholar of Public Theology for the Center for Cultural Leadership, and adjunct professor at Westminster Theological Seminary. He holds a Ph.D. from…
“What has changed over my lifetime is the self-consciousness of Leftists and secularists. They can no longer peacefully coexist with Christians. As in imperial Rome, Christians must go.” Read the…
Introduction Few topics generate more theological debate with less productivity than baptism. I observed recently a reignition on social media of the baptist-paedobaptist dispute; and as nearly always, it included…
The Christian life is a battle, and battles presuppose enemies. The chief enemy of Christians is Satan (and demonic spirits aligned with him [Eph. 6:12]), but a leading strategy in…
Hi Dr. Sandlin, I hope all is well with you. I have been struggling through Old testament prophecies and I am having a hard time seeing how Jesus fulfilled the…
Our work as biblical Christians is to de-privilege, de-normalize, and decimate the LGBTQ++ agenda. Read here.
We cannot take for granted about our culture what the earliest first-century evangelists did about theirs. Read here.