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The Kingdom of God Is Not a Personal Salvation Cult
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 here. Continue reading
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Christian Youth Should Be the Best Christians
One of the most pernicious myths of the church is that children must grow up before they can be zealots for Jesus Christ. The most productive Christians in history were following the Lord before they can remember. Listen here. Continue reading
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False Antinomy: Jesus’ Kingdom Gospel Versus Paul’s Salvation Gospel
Jesus’ victorious Satan-crushing gospel = Paul’s cross-and-resurrection salvation gospel. Read the post here. Continue reading
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The Kingdom Point of View
“No sacrifice is too great for the Kingdom to invade lives, families, and churches, as well as business, education, politics, science, entertainment, music, and economics.” Read the rest here. Continue reading
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Can You Help CCL by 11:59 Tonight?
Dear friends and supporters, I hope that you enjoyed your most rewarding Christmas in your life. You likely know that many Christian ministries and other charities derive a bulk of their annual income in December due to the year-end cut-off for tax-deductible donations. CCL is no exception. Many of you have already sent a sizable Continue reading
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Thoughts on Self-Respecting Manhood and the Use of Public Language, by Eric Anderson
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 of manly self-respect in what is said and what is not said public-ally. I think, by both common grace and saving grace (as a Christian Continue reading
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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 want to wear a mask, don’t. If you want to stay 6 feet away from people all the time, do that. If you don’t want Continue reading
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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 hardships and disasters, this article is for you. “And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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Christian Worldview Versus Gnosticism, Escapism, Pietism, and Defeatism
Alien worldviews in the church have rendered it impotent against an unbelieving cultural onslaught. Listen here. Continue reading
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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 prayer and our comparative de-emphasis of it. They prayed frequently and fervently. We pray infrequently and languidly. They called prayer meetings. We call staff meetings. Continue reading
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Cultural Bipolar Disorder
Rebuilding Christian culture demands restoring the multi-polar society. Continue reading
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You Don’t Know What’s Good for You, But the Left Does
Joe Biden, Merrick Garland, the Democrat Party and the U. S. Left have wormed their way into the bosom of the Romantic radical Rousseau. Read more here. Continue reading
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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 its authority. Read the article here. Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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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 here. Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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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: Political Interventionism, Woke Capitalism, and Church Pietism “David L. Bahnsen: “Politicized Economics in One Lesson” and “Pietized Economics in One Lesson” Jerry Bowyer: “The Maker Continue reading
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