Columbia Faith and Culture Examiner

There is an underlying reason why some Christians never mature past the spiritual infancy stage. From the very beginning of their Christian walk, they have no idea what it truly means to be “born again.” They have an understanding of conversion more akin to Nicodemus than to Jesus. ...

Of the many errors which infect the church today, there is perhaps none more disruptive to her unity than the accommodationalism of those who wish to be referred to as the "radical middle." The term itself is an oxymoron. ...

"Fundamentalism" is every secularist's favorite insult to hurl at anyone and everyone who take their faith seriously. But the term is rightly defined within a very narrow historical, theological, and ecclesiastical context. ...

There is a logical contradiction between evolution and the biblical account of creation which is often overlooked. Evolution teaches that man evolved upward from a lower form of life. Scripture teaches, conversely, that man fell downward from a higher form of life. ...

For every believer, prayer is an essential element of a life wholly devoted to God. There was a time when I thought of prayer as occurring at two levels: the public prayers of the gathered faithful and the private prayers of the individual believer. ...

Idolatry is born of the fallen human desire to see that in which we believe. It is so much easier to place our faith in a visible image created by our hands than it is to trust in the invisible God who created us in his image. ...

There is a world that is passing away and, along with it, all the temporal pleasures and desires which make it something less than the world God intended. But the love of the Father for the world he created endures forever, and that love will abide throughout the world to come. ...

If the Nobel Peace Prize were a prestigious award, it would be difficult to take seriously its being awarded this year to Barack Obama, whose brief tenure as President of the United States has been, up to this point, unremarkable. ...

The hope of Israel is tied directly to the resurrection. Nowhere in the Old Testament is this made more explicit than in Ezekiel's vision of the valley of dry bones (Ezekiel 37:1-14). Here, the image of ...

I noted in a previous article that there is perhaps nothing more pertinent to the application of one's faith to matters of culture than how one views the last things. One of the leading evangelical thinkers ...

In Christ, we can do all things to the glory of the Father. Apart from Christ, we can do nothing and, in fact, are nothing. At the end of the day, there is no middle ground. We are either in Christ or apart from Christ. ...

Among the most pugnacious and disagreeable of Paul's opponents were the so-called "super apostles," those who claimed a superior knowledge of the mysteries of God and derided Paul as a novice. ...

In our fallen human condition, we are oriented toward seeking that which is best for ourselves. We scoff at God's commandments and reject his ways as unjust. It is a perspective that is upside down and backward, for in the end, we will destroy ourselves with the worldly pleasures of self-indulgence....

Legalism is a pointless and self-defeating exercise in self-righteousness. On the outside, the ritual of following rules and regulations may give one, as Paul says in his letter to the believer in Colossae, ...