God, the nations, and nationalism (pt 1)
Whose “side” is God on in the midst of this cacophonous din between intensifying nationalism and looming globalism?
Wallace B. Henley
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Wallace Henley is a former pastor, White House, and congressional aide. He served eighteen years as a teaching pastor at Houston's Second Baptist Church. Wallace, the author of more than twenty books, now does conferences on the church and culture, church growth and leadership. He is the founder of Belhaven University's Master of Ministry Leadership Degree.
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John MacArthur’s religious freedom shocker and its troubling implications
John MacArthur is respected for many reasons, but his attitudes about both Charismatic Christians and the fight for religious freedom are not among them.
Instruments of national suicide
In the hands of people who either don’t understand, or give little regard to Constitutional principle, these can be instruments of national suicide. They underscore that the greatest threats to liberty often come from within.
How to resist the 'new chaldeans' and the 'cancel culture'
“I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston phone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University,” William F. Buckley quipped in 1955.
Churchill, the New Chaldeans, and the cancel culture
Sadly, the Cancel Churchill crusade is now underway. Perhaps President Biden did not intend it, but his removal of a Churchill statue from the Oval Office recently could be interpreted as a dismissal of Churchill.
The Lord of time and the 'doomsday clock'
The scientists comprising BAS try to tell us what to expect on the way to “Doomsday”. In the Olivet discourse, the Lord of time and history prophesies the historical trajectory toward the consummate “Telosday”
The 'Doomsday Clock' and 'tick-tocks' to annihilation
According to the “Doomsday Clock” we are only 100 “seconds” from the “midnight” of apocalyptic doom.
Is this why Biden booted Churchill from the Oval Office?
Once again Sir Winston Churchill has been booted from the Oval Office. The bust of the old bulldog whose steely focus was on Donald Trump for the last four years is notably absent, to paraphrase a Washington Post report.
A conservative Christian and Joe Biden
So, did God elevate Donald Trump or Joe Biden to the presidency intentionally, or permissively? I cannot answer that. However, as a conservative Christian I must acknowledge that each is/was in the Oval Office by the will of God.
Romans 13 and revolution
America in this desperate hour does not need bloody, anarchic chaos from left or right, but a constitutional, biblically grounded revolution.
Reset to radical church: Reach back to the past for future sake (pt 3)
We said earlier that there are at least five categories of incarnational ministry that define Jesus’ work in the world.
Christ's Kingdom without Christ? Time to reset to 'radical' church (pt 2)
We are living through an era when people under secular banners are trying to force the coming of the benefits of Christ’s Kingdom and conformity to its high values of love, equality, respect for those unlike us, and caring for the disenfranchised and victims of discrimination.
Christmas and ages of suspension
Suspended time is not all bad. Faith grows in those temporal gaps like hidden seed in a sidewalk.
Reset and the ‘radical’ church (pt 1)
The idea began to stir in me that merely to rely on contemporary theory was not “radical” enough, and that the “roots” of church growth were in the incarnate ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The whole church for the whole world
I wrestled with the hard fact that had begun to haunt me as I traveled the world speaking to leadership groups: They could teach me more than I could teach them.
The 2020 election and untethered prophets (pt 1)
Fake news and false prophecies boiled around the 2020 presidential race like tempests stoking a hurricane.
The virtue of being hated
If the church is not hated for the right reasons, is she real? Is she truly virtuous? The word used in the New Testament often refers to “moral excellence.”
Standing firm in an age of weaponized information
They will be able to perpetuate their worldview across generations, impacting not just the contemporary moment, but history itself.
Healing the big hole in America's heart
God the errand boy is still around. Fetch us a healing... wealth... happiness, we demand. But the errand boy deity is not God the Father, and we miss Abba terribly.
Processing and profiting from failure: The view from Mount 'Hoary' (pt. 4)
Through failure I learned that I shouldn’t blame “God’s will” for my mistakes, but to note especially His sovereignty over the whole of my life — failures and all.
