Was Calvin a Calvinist?

IT IS AN INTERESTING QUESTION. If John Calvin were alive today, would Calvin be a Calvinist? Oxford reformation scholar, Diarmmaid MacCulloch, doesn’t think so.”It is a mistake to see predestination as the dominant idea in Calvin’s theology, although for...

Elizabeth Elliot on Gender Confusion

ELIZABETH ELLIOT, the grand lady of Evangelicalism, recently died. In the decade before her death she wrote these prescient words. They are a soothing balm for those utterly astounded by the gender confusion that swirls around us, a confusion so profound that no one...

What Are The Most Productive Decades of Life?

BETWEEN SEVENTY AND EIGHTY million baby boomers are going to hit age sixty five in the next fifteen years. If 20% are evangelicals and they decide to serve a  local church this means 20-30 unpaid volunteers at each place of worship. Tragically, we have bought the lie...

How To Become More Masculine

ALTHOUGH GOD ASSIGNS our biological sex at conception,  masculinity is learned behavior. That means that you can have a man’s body but be feminine in behavior and orientation. Likewise, you can have a woman’s body and be thoroughly masculine in your...