“Marriage and Politics” by Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson and Robert P. George, National Review, February 11, 2013 Cal Thomas, “When Public Opinion Trumps Eternal Truth”, Washington Examiner, March 27, 2013 (PDF version available here) Sixty years ago, a homophile monthly’s cover read: “HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE?” (ONE, August 1953) In 1963, its cover dropped the question…
EC Connection 2013 Keynote by Ralph Blair (PDF version available here) Here’s how Jesus wrapped up what’s called, “The Sermon on the Mount”. Let’s hear God’s Word. “Don’t sit in judgment on others, unless you want to be judged with the same harshness. For, it will be on the basis of your judging others that…
Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes by E. Randolph Richards and Brandon J. O’Brien (InterVarsity, 2012), 240 pp; Kent Van Til, “Singleness and Celibacy”, Perspectives, December 2012; “Opposing the Truth-Trashers” by Joel Belz, World, November 17, 2012; “Our Culture of Deceit” by Joel Belz, World, December 15, 2012; “Where ‘little lies’ Lead”, by Joel Belz, World,…
(PDF version available here) The 100th person to keynote an EC summer retreat will be Shari Johnson. She’s the author of Above All Things: The Journey of an Evangelical Christian Mother & Her Gay Daughter. Johnson is president of P-FLAG in Odessa, Texas. The 101st person to be an EC keynoter will be Jared Porter…
(PDF version available here) On November 6, voters in Maine, Maryland and Washington legalized same-sex marriage and Minnesotans voted down a constitutional amendment that would have banned same-sex marriage. Six states (New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, Iowa and New York as well as D.C.) had already legalized same-sex marriage. Thirty-two states have voted to restrict…
Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christian Debate by Justin Lee (Jericho Books, 2012) 259 pp. (PDF version available here) Since lesbian and gay youth are ridiculed, caricatured, guilt-tripped, kicked out of families, churches and Christian schools, it’s not inexplicable that they’d try to steer clear of their abusers – including the religious ringleaders of…
1912 ~ The Centennials ~ 2012 Lottie Moon – William Booth – Francis Schaeffer – Jacques Ellel This is the opening talk by Dr. Ralph Blair given at the 2012 Preaching Festival. The 2012 weekend focused on a group of centennial, historical Christians whose journeys and testimonies are an encouragement and inspiration to all. Sermons…
The first in a series of three sermons given by Dr. Ralph Blair at the 2012 Preaching Festival held in Ocean Grove, N.J. Jesus: The Original Evidence “Who Invented Christianity?” This provocative question popped up on my computer screen. It was an ad for “an all-star lineup [in] scenic Durham, North Carolina [this weekend]. Four…
The second in a series of three sermons given by Dr. Ralph Blair at the 2012 Preaching Festival held in Ocean Grove, N.J. Jesus: The Ongoing Evidence The original evidence for Jesus is his resurrection. His ongoing evidence is the Church, his Bride, and what she, by God’s Spirit, gives, in love, to the welfare…
The third in a series of three sermons given by Dr. Ralph Blair at the 2012 Preaching Festival held in Ocean Grove, N.J. JESUS: THE EVIDENCE IN OUR LIVES It’s Sunday morning. We’re meeting on this Sunday morning in the 21st-century because of that 1st-century Sunday morning when God raised Jesus from the dead. Since…