A Brilliant, Profound, Complex Credo on Covid and Liberty
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…
Some on Broken Pieces, by Salle J. Sandlin
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…
One Crusader’s Calling
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 Make — and Keep — Promises
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.
God’s Ways Are Normal and the World’s Ways Are Weird
Exposing a great deception by the Father of Lies. A short, blunt message for Christian young people. Listen here.
Answered Prayers Should Be Routine
The Bible does not hold up the saints of those eras as enjoying more successful prayer lives than ours. Listen here.
Christian Worldview Versus Gnosticism, Escapism, Pietism, and Defeatism
Alien worldviews in the church have rendered it impotent against an unbelieving cultural onslaught. Listen here.
No Longer Together 4 the Gospel
“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.
Prayer Changes Things, and Prayer Changed Me
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…
Cultural Bipolar Disorder
Rebuilding Christian culture demands restoring the multi-polar society.
Critical Theory Is Neither Meat Nor Bones — It Is Alien
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…
The Ruinous Calamity of the Ruling Class
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 as Toleration
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…
The Fundamentalist Temptation
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.
Vaccine Mandates and Crony Statism
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…
Prayer, Fuel of the Kingdom
No single human factor contributes more to the advance of Christ’s kingdom than mighty, faith-drenched, persevering prayer. Listen here.
Apostasy, Perseverance, and Assurance
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.
Reformational Christianity, Now, More Than Ever
“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…
Apostasy and Assurance
“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.
Save the Date for CCL’s 2021 Symposium on Economics
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 Outward Turn
“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.
Let’s Celebrate Christian Pride Millennia
“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.
ATF 2021R-08, “Factoring Criteria for Firearms With Attached ‘Stabilizing Braces,’” by Brian G. Mattson
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…
The Collision Course of Christian Exclusivity
“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…
Allegiant Baptism
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…
New Book — Defend the Faith: Christian Warfare for Our Time
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…
Jesus, Jews, and Jerusalem
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…
Eschatologies Have Consequences
Why is the church weak, emaciated, and defeated? She expects to be weak, emaciated, and defeated. Read the article here.
Spiritual Masochists
A perversely pious gush diabolically inspired to derail God’s aggressive, kingdom-expanding work in the world is the last thing we need. Read the article here.
Knowing Your Cultural Marxism
Cultural Marxism is a complicated ideology and I’ve given a simple explanation, but here I’ll lay out several points by which you can identify this increasingly pervasive intellectual poison. 1.…
Political Insurrection Versus Creational Insurrection
The January 6 Capitol breach by several hundred members at the massive Trump rally was instantly labelled an “insurrection” by the Washington Post and other Leftist mainstream news outlets and…
David L. Bahnsen on Stimulus Bills, Covid Lockdowns, and Interest Rates
David L. Bahnsen is Senior Fellow of Economics and Finance for the Center for Cultural Leadership and Founder, Managing Partner, and Chief Investment Officer of The Bahnsen Group, a bi-coastal…
Easter Eschatology
“When Christ declared on the cross, ‘It is finished!’ he meant the atonement was forever over. But when he rose, he didn’t declare, ‘It is finished!’ Easter isn’t over.” Read…
Brian G. Mattson on Classical Theism, Critical Race Theory, and N. T. Wright
Brian G. Mattson is a public theologian, Senior Scholar of Public Theology for the Center for Cultural Leadership as well as Adjunct Professor of Systematic and Public Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary. He holds…
Jeffery J. Ventrella on the Supreme Court, Christian Worldview, and TransTyranny
Jeffery J. Ventrella, J.D., Ph.D., is Distinguished Fellow of Law and Culture at the Center for Cultural Leadership and Senior Counsel and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs & Training for…
Cultural Orthodoxy, Not Just Ecclesial Orthodoxy
When criteria of right belief are limited to the church, even Christian orthodoxy is jeopardized. Read the rest here.
“Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” Isn’t
Today the CalPers board considered the widely implemented Diversity & Inclusion Report and Framework. CalPers is a massive agency for California employees, retirees and their families and manages the largest pension fund in the…
Realized Religion : Victory Already, Before the “Not Yet”
“One of the most prominent errors in the history of the church is postponing massive blessings of creation and the gospel to the eternal state. If the liberal churches wish…
Gnostic Funerals
“Funerals are a gauge of the impact of Gnosticism in Christianity. Underlying the Gnostic attitude in modern Christian funerals is the most troubling assumption of all: a theology of escape.”…
James White, Postmillennialist
Dr. James White is a Reformed Baptist theologian and apologist and founder and director of Alpha Omega Ministries who, formerly premillennial and amillennial, recently shifted his eschatology to postmillennialism. I…
Ghost Churches
Introduction A new term in ecclesial nomenclature is “ghosting.” It denotes church members’ dropping out of their congregations without informing their church leadership, simply disappearing. In our age that increasingly…
The Creed of Leftism
1. There are no absolute, transcendent standards for this world and, therefore, humanity must create them. 2. The central standard humanity must create is the widest possible human autonomy. There…
Gospel or Salvation?
Many Christians calls themselves “evangelical,” but actually they’re soterians. They’re not Gospel Christians, but soteriological Christians. These two aren’t the same. Read the article here.
The Degeneration into Political Soteriology
“This insurrection is sometimes called ‘conservative counter-revolution,’ but it never is. It claims to be restoring the moral order overturned by Leftists, but it is actually an attempt to reverse…
The Human Types that Make Statism Necessary
Three kinds of individuals are particularly attracted to statism, the ideology that that there is no social problem for which increased political control isn’t the best solution. It is impossible…
Will You Help CCL this Year’s End?
Dear friends and supporters: A number of you have already sent a generous year-end donation. Thank you deeply. Most Christian ministries receive a large proportion of their income at the…
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