People know such depravity (sexual sin being the immediate context) is evil, but they not only do it, they approve of others doing it. And the nation of Canada has just put this on display for the world with a 5-4 decision made by their Supreme Court. The decision ruled that it’s unconstitutional to impose “one-year mandatory minimum jail sentences for accessing or possessing child sexual abuse and exploitation materials.”
I remember once at a conference a secular scientist said something like, “I don’t see any evidence for a global flood, all you find are fossil layers all over the world.” So blind! The evidence was staring him in the face. The violent deaths of billions and billions of creatures in rock layers all over the globe point to something very different happening in the past—a massive catastrophe.
According to a new study from George Barna’s Cultural Research Center, “Americans are changing their understanding and definition of ‘sin,’” which, the article says, “signals a dramatic shift in the nation’s moral compass and builds on earlier reports documenting widespread confusion about the existence and nature of sin.” Not surprisingly, younger generations showed more moral confusion than their older counterparts.
It’s appalling to me as a Christian to see “pastors” taking to social media platforms like Tik Tok to share with potentially millions of viewers that they doubt God’s existence, that the Bible never says that sex outside of marriage is wrong, that God is “queer,” that the Bible is not pro-life, or that it has errors
And no matter how lifelike and seemingly sentient AI becomes as programming gets better and better, it will never be a person. Why? Because ultimately being a person means we’re made in the very image and likeness of God. And a computer program is just made in the image of man, not the image of God: "Then God said, 'Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness...” (Genesis 1:26).
Want a direct line to Jesus Christ where he speaks to you personally? Well, apparently you need look no further than “Text with Jesus,” one of a variety of apps that allow you to “chat” with Jesus, Moses, and other biblical figures. Do these kinds of apps help people “explore Scripture,” as the creator claims? Or are they utter blasphemy?
There’s a wave of so-called “pastors” on social media spreading messages that completely twist Scripture. Today, I respond to some of these clips and...
In the most recent study, Barna found that “43% of men reported attending church weekly, compared with 36% of women.” This is the largest gap in church attendance between men and women since Barna first began tracking this decades ago. And what’s really interesting is which young men are “leading the way in church attendance”: “married fathers with children under 18.”
Christians “are good” because Jesus said, “If you love me, you will keep my commandments” (John 14:15). Because of the mercy and grace God has extended to us, his people follow after him, walking in obedience to his commandments. It has nothing to do with earning God’s favor and a place in heaven but everything to do with loving the One who died for us and therefore desiring to honor and glorify him. Yes, this nation needs to be “one nation under God” if we want to be a moral nation. But “being good” (however you define that!) won’t save any individual person
Basically, any chapter that gives women a specific command feminists don’t like is “harmful” to women (based on their arbitrary standard of “harmful,” of course). But, no worries—you can just explain them away! How much more literal could she have been in showing her distain for the very words of God? Rather than wrestle with the Scriptures, comparing Scripture with Scripture, to determine what God intended for us to understand from his Word, just throw the Bible away and listen to the culture!
Christians must do the same. We cannot leave our Christian beliefs—our biblical worldview—at the door when we engage in politics as a citizen or as a politician. We’re not neutral, and neither is the sphere we’re entering. We’re to seek the good of the nation we’re in and use our influence to be salt and light for such a time as this as we do the King’s business until he returns.
The state of theology among so-called Evangelicals is sobering. It really should be a wake-up call to both pastors and parents. We’ve raised generations on “Bible stories” without giving them the meat of God’s Word, teaching them to think biblically, or shaping their biblical worldview. Instead of being guided by Scripture, they’re guided by a mishmash of biblical teaching and our culture’s beliefs.
You won’t hear this talked about in many churches. In order to attract people and keep them in the pews, many churches downplay man’s sin, focusing instead on inspirational and uplifting messages. This almost singular focus on the “positive” is unhealthy because it’s not what God does in his Word. He shows us our sinfulness, even giving us his law as a mirror to highlight it!
Many Christians love to use the big bang as “proof” of a Creator. They’ll say, “Look, science shows there had to have been a beginning. God was the ‘first cause’ who started everything.” But what do those Christians do now that scientists are abandoning or seriously rethinking the big bang?
Think back to your high school or college biology textbook, or any evolutionary documentary on “early earth” you’ve ever watched. How was early earth described? Probably as some “hellish” landscape with bubbling lava, no liquid water, and absolutely no life. That’s the story kids are still being told—and even evolutionists don’t really believe it anymore.
By studying God’s Word—including Genesis 1–11—Christians can develop a Biblical worldview that will help them respond to any moral issue today. The apologist and founder of Answers in Genesis shared that addressing the culture is less about knowing facts and figures. It’s more about standing on the authority of Scripture and sharing that with others.
It’s the biblical worldview that says children are worth the sacrifice. It’s the biblical worldview that says the household matters and is vital for the flourishing of society. Yes, the family was the first and most fundamental human institution that God ordained—marriage and children matter to him. It’s the family that is the backbone of the culture and that God uses to transfer a spiritual legacy from one generation to the next.
According to reports, the very doctor who led this remarkable surgery “committed several second-trimester abortions. Reasons given for these abortions included myelomeningocele—the very condition she was able to successfully treat when the child’s life was deemed worthy of being saved.”
Evolution had nothing to do with this incredibly complex design! The genetic information to create these stunning feathers was put in the landfowl kind (which includes peafowl) when God created them on day five of creation week. The complexity of biological lasers points to the handiwork of the Creator, not random chance over millions of years. A reminder that God thought of lasers first!
There are certainly strange phenomena out there that are difficult to explain, but the answer won’t be visits from extraterrestrials. Instead of obsessing over the possible existence of life in outer space, I pray Americans will become concerned with the one from eternity who stepped into history to live as the perfect God-man and die on the cross in our place. He then rose from the grave and ascended into heaven, and someday He will return again.
How should Christians respond when they’re accused of being intolerant? Here’s my answer to that question. I point out that Christians and non-Christians have...
Christian ministries will load Bible passages, sermons, or gospel presentations in local or trade languages onto the devices and drop them for the Indigenous people to find. When missionaries are unable to physically reach a people, it’s a wonderful way to expose those people to the gospel. But, of course, those with a secular (really, anti-God) worldview don’t like it.
Answers in Genesis was recently slapped with a “fact-check” (community notes) on X. But the so-called “fact-check” needed some fact-checking because it repeated a major piece of evolutionary propaganda that’s been disproven by the evolutionists’ own research!
Evolutionary thought is finally catching up with what creationists have said (and been mocked by secularists for saying) for decades—“junk” DNA is not junk!
In a fallen world, there are horrible diseases, like mitochondrial defects, with tragic consequences. But the answer to fighting the effects of the curse in our bodies, and in the bodies of our children, isn’t to create and then end the life of another human being made in the image of God. Each of those babies, unhealthy mitochondria and all, was made in God’s image and deserved the right to life.
This kind of misinterpretation of Scripture because of a lack of belief in the authority of Scripture (often coupled with biblical illiteracy!) is sadly very common, not just among professing Christian celebrities, but within churches, Christian colleges and universities, and even seminaries. It’s tragic, and we see the fruit as more and more Christians abandon the truth of God’s Word for the wisdom of our age. As I’ve always said, once you abandon the truth and authority of God’s Word beginning in Genesis, more compromise follows.
Talarico is completely twisting Scripture to support the murder of babies! He is absolutely no different from the “Christians” and “pastors” who likewise twisted Scripture to support slavery in the pre–Civil War era. He’s relegated a class of human beings to “subhuman” and then said it’s okay to treat them any way you want. It’s vile. It’s atrocious.
Should pastors be using AI to write their sermons? I recently saw a website for a company that advertises itself as “Your AI-Powered Sermon Assistant” designed to help pastors “create better sermons in less time” using artificial intelligence. A video on the website claims you can just type a word (like “forgiveness”) into the sermon builder tool and “instantly have a sermon ready to preach” and if you like the sermon “copy it, paste it, you’re ready to preach.”
A French scientist, Étienne-Émile Baulieu, who recently died at the age of 98, is being hailed in headlines around the world as “a beacon of courage” and a world-changer, a hero for women’s rights. But his legacy isn’t one that uplifts women—it’s a legacy of bloodshed and brokenness. A legacy of death.
Franklin did not appeal to the authority of God’s Word or the application of a biblical worldview. Instead she mentioned her “own opinion” and “I do not believe.” Yes, it’s her opinion, not God’s Word or an application of Scripture, that informs her position on this life-and-death issue. We need to make sure we all have a biblical worldview that is founded in God’s Word and do not force our opinions on Scripture.
I recently saw a study from the Pew Research Center on “The Experiences of LGBTQ Americans Today,” marking the 10-year anniversary of Obergefell. They said they believe cultural acceptance of LGBTQ lifestyles has increased because of “more support from religious leaders and... greater representation in politics and entertainment.” In other words, LGBTQ individuals believe it’s religious leaders who have had a huge part in dulling the national conscience toward sexual sin!
There’s been such a focus in American churches on entertaining young people so they’ll want to come to church and very little emphasis on doctrine, theology, apologetics, and the gospel. So many young people grow up with a shallow faith, no answers to the skeptical questions of our day, and a worldview foundation that says man determines truth (the same foundation our culture has).
What a dismal view of God and His Word from so many so-called pastors! But this isn’t surprising, given the liberal trajectory of the mainline denominations. They abandoned the authority of God’s Word long ago, and that compromise just leads to more compromise (and more doubt!).
We don’t get to be the arbiters of who lives and who dies. God has fearfully and wonderfully made each and every human life, in his image, and he alone holds the power of life and death. The foundational principle that man is made in God’s image and that human life begins at fertilization enables us to speak authoritatively on the topic of abortion.
Now, at first glance, this just seems silly or maybe like a sad reaction to the loneliness, anxiety, and depression that so many young people feel and that keeps them from forming deep relationships or even being willing to leave their homes. But I think it points to something deeper—a rejection of God’s design.
Mass graveyards, like this one, point to the reality of a global flood. Such a flood would’ve rapidly overwhelmed creatures, including whole herds of large herbivores like these, deeply burying them away from scavengers or microbes. These dinosaurs were overwhelmed in an instant—by a massive global flood.
This is a massive blow to the evolutionary worldview as the supposed similarity between chimp and human DNA is touted as one of the strongest “proofs” of evolution—and it’s found to be completely false when you actually do observational science without the evolutionary assumptions! Maybe that’s why Nature didn’t make a big deal about the researchers’ stunning findings.
Ever since the ideas of millions of years and biological evolution became popular, there have been Christians who have attempted to fit long ages and evolution into the Bible. But it just doesn’t work! Not only does it put death and disease before sin and contradict the clear teaching of Scripture, but it elevates man’s fallible wisdom above God’s Word.
God’s Word is not the standard for Dr. Collins or the organization he founded—man’s word ultimately is. So it’s no surprise that compromise with man’s ideas has gone beyond the origins debate. Since our entire Christian worldview is grounded in Genesis 1–11, as soon as you reject that history, other compromise follows.
The Bible commands us to “take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness,” which, in context, include sexual immorality—and yet many in the church are bending over backward to find creative ways to accommodate sexual immorality to “lower the entry bar” for unbelievers or the discipleship hardships for professing believers, especially those who identity as LGBTQ.
Some things should make Christians angry. In this powerful presentation, Ken Ham challenges believers to reclaim righteous anger, stand firm on the authority of...
It’s no shock that the evolutionary story is changing again. It’s nothing but a fairy tale, a made-up story to try to explain life and the universe without God. When we start with God’s Word, we can properly interpret the evidence, and it confirms God’s Word.
But there is no “climate crisis.” The science is far from the settled research the media would have you to believe—that’s why the predictions made by climate models are wrong over and over again! And historically, climate has always varied, warming or cooling based on a variety of factors that have nothing to do with our modern carbon emissions.