I appreciate Kent’s patience with my slow response. My studies have kept me quite busy. I’ll start with a few brief comments: I’m glad that Kent has written on this topic in some detail. I believe this issue may be the most important issue our generation addresses. I’m glad that

  “Before you can get someone saved, you first have to get them lost.”   The primary need of our day is to help lost people realise they are sinners. And that is difficult in a society of relative morality. There is a school of thinking in Fundamentalism that focuses

I’m at that busy point in the semester where if it’s not an exam it’s an assignment due! So I’ve decided to let someone else—namely A. W. Pink—take my post for the week. This is from his The Attributes of God. If you haven’t read it yet, I encourage you

Two weeks ago, I addressed the question of why they think we’re dangerous (and why they might be right). My conclusion was that fundamentalism is not dangerous except in two cases: When we have an unholy book. When we interpret a holy book improperly. Well, we can be sure that

Several years ago, I spent the better part of a year studying a particular issue which has raised significant discussion in Fundamentalism in recent decades. It became apparent to me through that study that the real issue in the discussion really had very little to do with the issue itself.

The word “fundamentalist” tends to invoke fear and disdain in modern Australian culture. To be labeled a fundamentalist is to wear a stain, to be marked as intellectually inferior and a menace to society. In short, society thinks we’re dangerous. But why? Probably the biggest reason modern society believes we’re

“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” This oft-quoted and helpful mantra raises the question of what is “the main thing”? I think I’m fairly safe to say the typical Independent Baptist answer is “missions.” Though it might be surprising to some, Bill Hybels and

This post was originally written and posted in 2005. Due to the controversy it caused it was removed a short time later. I post it again at this time because I believe the issues at stake are worth having controversy about. I trust it will be helpful to some. What

From time to time, someone who is unfamiliar with the internet in all its applications will ask me to explain it to them. They want to know what is a blog, a forum, a social networking site. I usually spend a few minutes explaining how these three mediums work and

Evolution is a theory. A theory. You don’t “discover” a theory, you create it. To say that a theory was “discovered” is nonsensical. Now if by “evolution” you mean micro-evolution (development of a species within itself), a scientific reality which is observable and repeatable, then it would be accurate to