(PDF version available here.) “Donald Trump’s More Accepting Views on Gay Issues Set Him Apart in G.O.P”. This was The New York Times headline on April 22, 2016. Given the LGBT anxiety over the election results – Columbia professors even wrote, “the cluster of suicides this month can have no other meaning” [since retracted] –…
“Religious Freedom for Me but Not for Thee?” by Paul Crookston, National Review, February 21, 2017; “Europe’s Islam Problem and U.S. Immigration Policy” by Shannon Gilreath, Washington Blade, January 19, 2017. by Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here.) National Review’s Collegiate Network Fellow and Gordon College graduate, Crookston, rightly notes: “America’s enshrinement of religious…
(PDF version available here.) The 2017 Evangelicals Concerned calendar includes our 30th Presidents Day Winter Weekend Bible Study, our 75th ConnECtion and our 15th Fall Preaching Festival. The Presidents Day Weekend Bible study will be February 18-20 at The Turning Point at Kirkridge Retreat in the mountains of eastern Pennsylvania. ConnECtion2017 will be June…
“Keller, Moore, De Young on How to Speak to Our Culture About Sex”, Ryan Troglin, ed., The Gospel Coalition, August 23, 2016. by Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here.) In 1954, C. S. Lewis was asked about homosexuality. He recalled 1918, when he was an atheist and his closest friend, a devout Christian, confided…
The 2016 Evangelicals Concerned Ocean Grove Preaching Festival Columbus Day Weekend October 7-9, 2016 “Five Centuries of Reformation Proclamation” “1516, 1616, 1716, 1816, 1916” John Foxe John Owen John Berridge Francis Asbury J. C. Ryle Eugenia Price Including Three Sermons by Dr. Ralph Blair “Our Sufficiency in The All-Sufficient One”, “Affirming The All-Merciful’s Affirmation of…
“Our Sufficiency in The All-Sufficient One” “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Philippians 4:13 Dr. Ralph Blair, Speaker (PDF version here) Martin Luther said: “The Bible is alive. It speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me, it has hands, it lays hold of me.” The very most significant…
“Affirming The All-Merciful’s Affirmation of Us” “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16 by Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version here) Along with Philippians 4:13, Tim Tebow’s favored eyeblack is John 3:16, the second most…
“Participating in His Providence” “ ‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future’.” Jeremiah 29:11 (PDF version here) Each of the three top-tweeted Bible verses reveals that God initiates our relationship with Him and…
“Sexuality and Gender” by Lawrence S. Mayer and Paul R. McHugh, The New Atlantis, Fall 2016. by Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here.) Plain Reasons for the Growth of Sodomy in England, a 1728 tome, blamed tea and the “pernicious influence” of Italian opera. Today, there’s still alarm over the growth of what folks…
(PDF version available here.) Kirk Franklin, black contemporary Gospel singer, is apologizing to gays for the homophobia in the black churches. Says Franklin: “More than anything, I’m trying to peel back those layers [that] keep people away from God and keep people away from experiencing the love of God, [and all that] gets in the…