TOPIC INDEXChristianity in America (10)

  1. What If I Am Not Saved?

    book
    07/27/20
    14 mins
    By Zack James Cole
    I rededicated my life as many times as I could when the guilt was unbearable. I would read my Bible more and pray more, yet I still struggled. I knew deep down, I was breaking God’s heart with my failure at being his child.

  2. Is The American Church Spiritually Sick?

    book
    07/17/20
    9 mins
    By Donavon Riley
    In our attempts to conform the Gospel of Jesus Christ to material, therapeutic, and mystical standards of religion and spirituality we've arrested, inhibited, distorted, and handicapped God's Word and gifts of salvation.

  3. Is Christianity a Civil Religion?

    book
    07/09/20
    11 mins
    By Donavon Riley
    We must not submit ourselves to false gods and godless men. Instead, we may hold fast to Christ, because He’s holding fast to us.

  4. An American Myth Meets the Gospel of Jesus

    book
    02/05/20
    10 mins
    By David Rufner
    This is our frontier religion: God is waiting to shower blessings upon us if only we will unlock those blessings with the right kind of works, and a sufficient quantity of the same.

  5. Is America A Christian Nation?

    book
    08/14/19
    14 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    A person, not a nation, can be a Christian because only a person can be saved by grace through faith in the work of Christ.

  6. Happy Birthday, John Newton! Hymn Writer and Slave Trader (Or, what to do when our heroes turn out to be scoundrels)

    book
    07/24/19
    14 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    John Newton was a scoundrel, a pirate, and a slave trader.

  7. George Whitefield Arrives in America

    book
    05/03/19
    11 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    He is significant, not as a founder of his own movement, but for setting the procrustean bed of the particularly American church with its dogmatizing yet broad ecumenical stances.

  8. How Churches Become Morality Clubs of Religion

    book
    11/19/17
    10 mins
    By Chad Bird
    We strive, in short, to master the art of swatting mosquitoes. And all the while, we remain blind to the fact that in pulpit after pulpit, the Gospel of Jesus Christ is as rare as Merry Christmas inside a synagogue.

  9. Who’s Afraid of Statistics?

    book
    08/30/17
    13 mins
    By Bob Hiller
    These studies can expose some very disturbing truths about Christianity in America.

  10. Postmodernism, Charlottesville and the Hope to Come….

    book
    08/16/17
    15 mins
    By Bruce Hillman
    "Are you Republican or Democrat?” “Liberal or conservative?” “Yankees or Red Sox?” “Star Wars or Star Trek?”