One of the areas we talk about often at the Red Brick Church is retaining our youth. Marc at 5 Solas recently shared why he believes we are losing our youth. The post begins: We all know them, the kids…
What Should Excite You About Going to Church
John MacArthur with an excellent thought about what should excite us about going to church. When you think about coming to church, what aspect do you look forward to the most? For the sake of this discussion, let’s assume your…
No Babies, No Future
Eric Metaxas on the economic implications of declining birth rates. Taro Aso, Japan’s finance minister, has only been on the job for a month but he’s already stirred up enough controversy to last a lifetime. In January, he made headlines…
A Brief Introduction to Presuppositional Apologetics
Mike Riccardi provides a brief introductory article on presuppositional apologetics: a key distinctive of presuppositional apologetics is that the apologist must presuppose (hence the name) the truth of the Bible and the Christian worldview. We should not, even for the…
Sweeter than Ever on Jamie
I am thankful for my pretty, smiling wife. Here is a picture of Jamie and her dad, the late Jack Limbaugh, at our wedding rehearsal: pretty then, more beautiful now.
God Allowed 42 Boys to be Mauled by Bears? Seriously?
My friend, Pastor Roy Summers, interacts with an Old Testament text that is often raised as an objection against the Old Testament. “I can’t believe because of the harsh stories in the Old Testament” No doubt there are some difficult…
Why the Yawns Across America and Around the World? (I need your help with sermon prep)
Why, even amongst Christians, are some of the most incredible statements in human history greeted with yawns of apathy? Help me meditate on this question in advance of my sermon. The next sermon from 1 Timothy will focus on the…
Profound Thoughts for Suffering and Depressed Christians
Carl Trueman has written an excellent article reflecting on the book of Job. Just breeze through the bit about Driscoll and read what he has to say about the book of Job. Do we make too much of suffering? Is…
Reasons Local Churches Dwindle Away
Number three is the one that really got my attention. You will have to click through to read it. But I think #3 is absolutely a central reason why many churches dwindle away. Chuck Lawless writes: I love the local…
Losing Adam
Increasingly, it seems, theologians who have identified themselves as evangelicals question the historicity of Adam or the need for believing that Adam existed. Jeremy Walker recently considered how the trajectory of rejecting an historical Adam would work out in our…