Answering Questions About Homosexuality #7
Below is the seventh post from Pastor Bob in an ongoing blog series designed to help Christians think through the issue of homosexuality in a careful and Biblical way. For more on the reason for this series, click here.
Question 7: How can you say homosexuals are wrong when they are born with their sexual orientation?
Answering Questions About Homosexuality #6
Below is the sixth post from Pastor Bob in an ongoing blog series designed to help Christians think through the issue of homosexuality in a careful and Biblical way. For more on the reason for this series, click here.
Question 6: Why do Christians get so uptight about homosexuality when Jesus didn’t even talk about it?
Answering Questions About Homosexuality #5
Below is the fifth post from Pastor Bob in an ongoing blog series designed to help Christians think through the issue of homosexuality in a careful and Biblical way. For more on the reason for this series, click here.
Question 5: Isn’t it hypocritical for Christians to object to homosexuality while they actively engage in their own sexual sins?
Answering Questions About Homosexuality #4
Below is the fourth post from Pastor Bob in an ongoing blog series designed to help Christians think through the issue of homosexuality in a careful and Biblical way. For more on the reason for this series, click here.
Question 4: If you are going to condemn homosexuality as a sin, shouldn’t you follow the Bible and also approve slavery?
Answering Questions About Homosexuality #3
Below is the third post from Pastor Bob in an ongoing blog series designed to help Christians think through the issue of homosexuality in a careful and Biblical way. For more on the reason for this series, click here.
Question 3: What right does anyone have to judge homosexuals?
Answering Questions About Homosexuality #2
Below is the second post from Pastor Bob in an ongoing blog series designed to help Christians think through the issue of homosexuality in a careful and Biblical way. For more on the reason for this series, click here.
Question 2: Are homosexuals welcome at your church?
Answering Questions About Homosexuality #1
Below is the first post from Pastor Bob in an ongoing blog series designed to help Christians think through the issue of homosexuality in a careful and Biblical way. For more on the reason for this series, click here.
Question 1: How can we know whether homosexuality is a sin when there are so many interpretations of the Bible?
3 Reasons To Do a Blog Series on Homosexuality
Starting next week, I will begin a multi-part blog series that will seek to answer common questions about and objections to the traditional Christian position on homosexuality. Some of you might be sick of hearing about this issue, which is totally understandable, so let me offer three reasons why I think this is a good idea:
Is the PCA Traditional or Progressive?
There has been much talk lately in our denomination (PCA — Presbyterian Church in America) about its current state of health as a result of an article written by former Covenant Seminary President Bryan Chapell titled, “The State of the PCA.” The article is actually a “slightly edited” version of an address that Chapell is giving at the PCA’s General Assembly in Chattanooga this week.
8 Reasons For a Church to be ‘Confessional’
In my blog a few weeks ago about being Presbyterian, I mentioned that a distinguishing mark of our tradition is that we adhere to the Westminster Confession of Faith (WCF) (the Heidelberg Catechism is good too). As a follow-up to that idea, I thought it might be helpful to take this a step further and consider some good reasons why a church should be “confessional” — that is, why it should hold to an established confession of faith.
6 Reasons Why ‘Christianity Explored’ is a Good Way to Explore the Gospel
Are you curious about Christianity? Perhaps you were not brought up in the church, and you want to know more about the claims of Jesus. Maybe you come from a Mormon or Muslim family, and yet you are interested in orthodox Christianity. Or perhaps you’ve strayed from the church, but now feel a tug to go back. You want to know the basics of Christianity, but don’t know where to start.
3 Reasons to be Presbyterian
This is not an age when it is popular to belong to a particular church denomination. Most Christians shun such distinctives, mostly because denominational boundaries have become a symbol for the stereotype that Christians simply can’t get along with one another. Sometimes I am asked if it wouldn’t be easier if we just took the word “Presbyterian” off our sign in front of our church. Maybe it would be better if we just called ourselves, “New Life Community Church.”
Sufjan Stevens and ‘Christian Music’
As a fan of the singer Sufjan Stevens and the magazine The Atlantic, I was thrilled to see the two come together recently when the periodical posted an article on its Web site titled, “How Sufjan Stevens Subverts the Stigma of Christian Music.”
PCA Affirms Traditional Marriage After PCUSA Denies It
Here was the headline of a March 18 story reported by an ABC news station: “Presbyterian Church Approves Gay Marriage in Constitution.” “What?” I can imagine some people thinking after reading the headline. “New Life has approved gay marriage?”
Documentary on ‘The Doctor’ Ready for Release
It’s good to have heroes. The danger of course is that we might idolize our heroes, which is always to be avoided, but it’s also easy to go to the other extreme and downplay the outstanding godly example set by saints who have come before us. Most likely all of us have a hero of one kind or another, even if it’s just an athlete or rock star. The question is whether our heroes are truly worthy of the title.