Theologian and philosopher Ronald Nash authored more than 35 books explaining and defending the Christian worldview. He taught at both secular and Christian institutions, including Western Kentucky University, Reformed Theological Seminary, and The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Pastor John Scripture Reference: II Timothy 3:1-9

  22 And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, 23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way. Ephesians 1:22-23 (NIV)

  On December 14, 1973, the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) made a monumental decision: it voted to remove homosexuality from the publication long considered the authoritative list of psychological disorders. The following month, the entire APA upheld the board’s decision by a vote of 5,834 to 3,810, and homosexuality was deleted as a pathology in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, 2nd edition (DSM).1 Suddenly, what had been regarded for millennia as wretched and shameful was classified as less abnormal than fear of water, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, or depression.

   4 Do not trust in deceptive words and say, “This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD!” . . . 9 Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not known, 10 and then come and stand before me in this house, which bears my Name, and say “We are safe”—safe to do all these detestable things? Jeremiah 7:4, 9-10 (NIV)

Reverend Michael Christ Scripture Reference Psalm 63

  On August 24, 410, the unthinkable happened: a Gothic army marched into the mighty city of Rome, having besieged it twice and driven its inhabitants to starvation and cannibalism. Then, for three days, they sacked the city. As it burned, onlookers expressed their shock that so powerful a symbol of the Roman Empire’s might could be defeated. The British monk Pelagius wrote, “Rome, the mistress of the world, shivered, crushed with fear, at the sound of the blaring trumpets and the howling of the Goths.”1 In the wake of this event, a host of demoralized Romans fled Italy to […]

  Edmund Burke was a statesman, author, and spokesman for conservative values, whose most famous book is Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). In that work, written soon after the revolution had begun, he criticized the French attempts to discard all inherited tradition and accumulated wisdom. (This included a desire to completely eradicate the Church—even to the extent of establishing a new calendar, which declared 1789 to be the new year “one.”)1 In 1796, he penned letters denouncing the emergent French “system of manners,” including their contempt for traditional marriage. In France, divorce became easy and a radical egalitarianism […]

  32 Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common . . . 34 There was not a needy person among them, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold 35 and laid it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need. Acts 4:32, 34-35 (ESV)

Pastor John Scripture Reference: II Timothy 2:14-26