by Ralph Blair “Gifted with GOD’s Way as Our Way!” is Dr. Ralph Blair’s Keynote at the 78th EC Summer ConnECtion, June 1-3, 2018 at The Kirkridge Retreat Center atop the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania. (For PDF version click here.) Who knows folks who think everything needs to go their way? Anyone come to mind? …
(PDF version available here) EC’s 2018 ConnECtion will come together over June 1 – 3, 2018 up on the mountain at Kirkridge, where our eastern ConnECtion has met each summer since 1980. Registration can be done online on the first page at www.ecinc.org And, here’s a complete list of all of EC’s summer…
“Mississippi Church Pushes Back Against History of Racism” by Zoe Erler, byFaith, Q1.18; “A Mouthful of Bluff” by Joel Belz, World magazine, April 14, 2018; “Look Out. Christianity Will Soon be Labeled ‘Hate Speech’ ” by David Rupert, Red Letter Believers: Salt and Light, at Patheos’ Evangelical channel, April 16, 2018; “Did Evangelicals ‘Kidnap’ the…
“Does Genesis 2 Support Same-Sex Marriage? An Evangelical Response” by Brian Neil Peterson, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, December 2017. by Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here) Peterson is distracted by recent “cultural changes in the West”, but he fails to take note of the far greater conceptual and cultural changes from ancient…
(PDF version available here) Following his death, Billy Graham was honored with a special issue of Christianity Today, the flagship evangelical periodical he founded in 1956. CT recognizes that, “the forces gathered and unleashed at the Berlin, Lausanne, and Amsterdam meetings [initiated by Graham] constitute a third worldwide ecumenical movement, every bit as important as…
(PDF version available here) Justin Lee founded and, for some 16 years, led the evangelical Gay Christian Network in support of biblically-serious Christians in faithfully living their lives as same-sex attracted persons, whether in a monogamous partnership or in celibacy. But, the GCN Board suddenly announced: “Justin and the Board have come to realize they…
The Grace of Shame: 7 Ways the Church has Failed to Love Homosexuals by Tim Bayly, Joseph Bayly, Jurgen von Hagen (Warhorn Media, 2017), 165 pp. by Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here) Tim Bayly’s dad was the late Joe Bayly, IVCF editor, author of The Gospel Blimp, and, for a quarter century, a…
“I’m a gay man, happily married to a woman. And I’m not the only one”, LifeSiteNews, March 27, 2017; “The Case for Dating Non-Christians” by David and Constantino Khalaf, Progressive Channel, Patheos, December 7, 2016; For Those Tears I Died by Marsha Stevens-Pino (Canyon Walker Press, 2016), 249 pp.; To Drink from the Silver Cup…
(PDF version available here) The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW), in cahoots with the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), has released “The Nashville Statement”, the latest big antigay manifesto. The Southern Baptists published their first antigay declaration, along with their protest against Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson’s proclamation…
LUTHER 500 The 500th Year of Luther’s Reformation The 15th Annual Evangelicals Concerned Preaching Fest Ocean Grove, New Jersey, October 6-8, 2017 An Introductory Lecture and Three Sermons Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here.) Three Sermons available here: Luther 500: Sola Scriptura Luther 500: Sola Gratia Luther 500: Sola Fide LUTHER 500: An Introductory…