1 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. 2 Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days. 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. 5 You have lived on the […]

  Phil Boatwright KANSAS CITY, Kan. (BP)–Last month I wrote a piece entitled “26 good films, from A to Z,” which concerned the relevancy of older movies and reminded that each generation of filmmakers has made movie moments that reflect both their evolving outer surroundings and the changeless inner spirit of mankind.

by Phil Johnson To review one more time, these are the characteristics that define “gambling”: 1.    Something valuable is placed at risk 2.    Something belonging to someone else is staked as a prize 3.    An element of chance supposedly determines the outcome And finally— 4. In all gambling, wealth is either lost or changes hands; no new wealth or other benefit is created. Gambling violates every biblical principle of economics.

Pastor John Scripture Reference: Numbers 32:1-27

  by Michael Foust NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)–Six years after the evangelical world debated the merits and appropriateness of making Bible translations more gender inclusive for words dealing with people, the divide is becoming evident once again.

Consider the following scenario. What if someone approached you and told you that “words are the most powerful things in the universe” and that the “natural world” could literally be reshaped by the words that you speak?1 What would you call such a person? To what worldview would he subscribe? You might rightly think that the person is a postmodernist—someone who does not believe that there is an objective reality that is fixed and unyielding. Or, you might conclude that he practices some form of mysterious Eastern religion that considers the world to only be an illusion. But such guesses, […]

In 1800, John Mitchell Mason published his book The Voice of Warning, to Christians, on the Ensuing Election of a President of the United States. During the election of that year, many Christian pastors spoke out in opposition to the election of Thomas Jefferson as President. Jefferson’s supporters, in a shrewd retaliatory move, attacked these ministers with the notion that religion should have nothing at all to do with politics, that there should be a strict separation between Church and State and thus a strict silence about politics in the pulpit. Jefferson enshrined this wall-of-separation perspective in his oft-quoted, 1802 […]

APPLIED MINISTRY: THEOLOGY Course 44910, Spring Semester, 2013 Dr. John Gauger Phone (410) 642-6865 Fax (410) 642-6991 Email: pastor@perryville.org I. Introduction In addition to a field supervisor, all Applied Ministry students will have a faculty supervisor. In most cases, the student will receive faculty supervision from a professor in a classroom setting. This syllabus is designed for students receiving their faculty supervision in a classroom setting at the seminary extension in Columbia, Maryland. In addition to this syllabus, the student must also read and follow the Applied Ministry Handbook at: http://www.sbts.edu/current-students/files/2013/01/Applied-Ministry-Handbook-Spring-20131.pdf II. Course Description Through lectures, class discussions, and assignments […]

  The publication of The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of Creation in 1691 was a literary sensation. Taking its title from Psalm 104:24, the book went through over 20 editions in the next 150 years and remains the most popular work of its author, John Ray. Critics marveled at its comprehensive coverage of virtually the whole natural world, but Ray intended it to be more than a mere compendium of ecological facts. As a Christian minister and scientist, he longed that others would see the great design of the Creator in the wonder of His creation.