What Every Christian Must Know about People
Volume 29, Issue 7, September 2023 by Gary E. Gilley, Pastor/teacher Southern View Chapel There are very few issues that are more confusing than trying to understand people, including ourselves. Few have credible answers to the questions such as who we are, why are we here, and what is our destiny? This does not mean there are not many opinions about these questions. As a matter of fact, we are flooded with philosophical, scientific, and psychological theories, which keep us off-balanced and confused. But very few people know and believe what God, our Creator, has to say about who we are, why we are here, and where we are headed. In the Ligonier Ministries and LifeWay Research, State of Theology survey for 2022,[1] statement #15 reads, “Everyone is born innocent in the eyes of God.” 71% of Americas agreed with this statement, but amazingly 65% of evangelicals did as well. That means that two-thirds of evangelical Christians do not have a biblical worldview regarding human beings, and that filters down to a muddled understanding of
What Every Christian Must Know about the Holy Spirit
Volume 29, Issue 6, August 2023 by Gary E. Gilley, Pastor/teacher Southern View Chapel According to the 2022 Lifeway/Ligonier survey, fifty-nine percent of those who identify as evangelical Christians believe the Holy Spirit is a force but not a personal being. And this is in light of the fact that about ninety percent claim to believe in the Trinity composed of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. At the very least, we have to admit that
What Every Christian Must Know about Jesus Christ
Volume 29, Issue 5, July 2023 by Gary E. Gilley, Pastor/teacher Southern View Chapel Returning to Ligonier and LifeWay Research 2022 survey of “The State of Theology,” we discover that to the question: “Is Jesus the first and greatest of beings created by God?”, amazingly, only 50% of evangelicals agree. This means that up to half of evangelicals believe Jesus is a created being. To the statement “Jesus was a great teacher but not God,”
What Every Christian Must Know about God
Volume 29, Issue 4, June 2023 by Gary E. Gilley, Pastor/teacher Southern View Chapel Every two years, Ligonier Ministries and LifeWay Research partner to find out what Americans believe about God, salvation, ethics, and the Bible. The findings are always shocking, but more so are the results of evangelical Christians who take the survey. Before we advance, we must first define what it means to be an evangelical. A hundred years ago, “evangelical” would describe
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Book Reviews
Discovering Dispensationalism, Tracing the Development of Dispensational Thought from the First to the Twenty-First Century
Discovering Dispensationalism seeks to correct the many misconceptions that some have of dispensational theology (p. 6) and present a clear and accurate understanding of its teachings. Editors Cory Marsh and
Dispensational Hermeneutics, Interpretation Principles That Guide Dispensationalism’s Understanding of the Bible’s Storyline
Michael Vlach is currently a professor at Shepherds Theological Seminary and is one of the leading promoters and defenders of dispensational theology. In this slim but packed volume, he skillfully
The Toxic War on Masculinity, How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes
The concept of toxic masculinity permeates our Western society. Men are regularly depicted in movies, on social media, and in the political arena as evil, abusers, and oppressors—in short, the
Orthodoxy, with Annotations & Guided Reading
G. K. Chesterton is often quoted positively in evangelical literature, and he is considered by many to be an articulate and reliable apologist for Christianity. Orthodoxy, written in 1908 when
Precious Truths in Practice, Holding Fast to God When You Are Overwhelmed
Certain biblical truths are like load-bearing walls in a house. Remove such walls and the ceiling collapses and, similarly, remove essential doctrines and Christianity crumbles. Martha Peace, recognizing this fact,
Reader, Come Home, The Reading Brain in a Digital World
Reader, Come Home is Maryanne Wolf’s sequel to her ground breaking Proust and the Squid written a decade earlier. She admits that during the seven years she was writing the
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At the time of writing this book, Maryanne Wolf was a professor of child development at Tufts University and the director of the Center for
The Good Life, Lessons from the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
In 1938 the Harvard Study of Adult Development was initiated to try to determine what made people thrive. Beginning with 724 participants, it is still
Do More Better, A Practical Guide to Productivity
Do More Better is a short book with the goal of enabling its readers to live a “calm and orderly life, sure of your responsibilities
Climate Change, A Convenient Truth by Jim Hollingsworth
Jim Hollingsworth is a retired building contractor who has obviously devoted much time and energy to researching the issue of climate change. He does not
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs
The Pleasures of Reading, in short, is a pleasure – if you love to read. Alan Jacobs is a professor of English at Wheaton College,
Taking America Back for God by Andrew L. Whitehead and Samuel L. Perry
Andrew Whitehead and Samuel Perry are both professors of sociology at respected American universities. This co-authored volume reflects their scholarship and painstaking research on the
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Christian Nationalism = Christendom
Volume 28, Issue 8, December 2022 The first paper in this series, “Christian Nationalism and the Great Hibernation,” demonstrated that Christian Nationalism is an often misunderstood term, defined in several ways. Andrew Whitehead and Samuel Perry, in their book, Taking America Back for God, offer several definitions including, “An ideology
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Christian Nationalism and Eschatology
Volume 28, Issue 7, October 2022 “If we change our eschatology, we will change the world — and take dominion of it for the glory
Christian Nationalism and the Great Hibernation
Volume 28, Issue 6, September 2022 Christian attempts at hibernating from corrupt world systems, people, and governments, are nothing new. From monasticism in post-apostolic times
The Battle for God – Part 5
Volume 28, Issue 5, June 2022 In the previous “The Battle for God” article,” I affirmed general agreement with Classical Theism and its Nicene and
The Battle for God – Part 4
Volume 28, Issue 4, May 2022 Since publishing the first three parts in “The God Debate” series, I have read Matthew Barrett’s Simply Trinity and
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