The Inner Life (Crucified) I would say that the greatest temptation is to be without temptations.  The greatest onslaught is to be without any onslaught at all.  Therefore be glad when you are assaulted.  With resignation, peace and consistency…abide.  There, in internal regions, walk and live. You must walk the path of temptation.  You will [...]

Below is a great video on legislating morality with Frank Turek. Key quote: All laws legislate morality, the only question is, whose morality? [Link to Video]

Are you supposed to have sex at work? I guess it depends on your profession, but for most of us the answer is “no.” Why then is corporate America obsessed with training about sex?

As described in several recent columns by Mike Adams, I was fired as a vendor by Cisco for my conservative beliefs about sex and marriage even though my beliefs were never expressed on the job. When a homosexual manager [...]

“The most glorious reward awaits such fidelity at the hour of Christ’s return, while the heaviest punishment threatens the selfish indolence that would decline active employment of what it has received.” ~Goebel “A crown is of value for what it implies rather than what it is.” ~D.M. Panton “Christ’s cross is Christ’s way to Christ’s [...]

[Link to Video] Recently Messianic Jew, Ron Cantor, gave an importunate message on the foreign policy of the White House.  Cantor holds both Israeli and US citizenship allowing him to both admonish and redirect the aspirations of the State Department.  He ‘felt compelled’ to deviate from his normal Bible teaching and provide this necessary history [...]

By Asher Intrater | www.revive-israel.org | Reprinted from Revive Israel Ministries with permission. This past year offered some unprecedented opportunities to discuss our faith on Israeli media. This included the educational television, television channel one, and the largest Hebrew newspaper, Yediot. During this time I have also attended a local Sephardic orthodox synagogue, because I [...]

Editor’s Note: Also published on Crosswalk.   It’s time for a gut check for conservative Christians in America. If we are on the right side of one of the greatest social, moral, and spiritual issues of our time, then we need to dig deep, hold our ground, strengthen our commitment, and redouble our efforts, regardless [...]

POVERTY “Blessed are the poor in spirit… …for theirs is the Kingdom (Matt. 5.3).” “Nothing in my hands I bring, simply to the cross I cling.” Turning in the core of my heart is a fire, not a fire for “power” or “passion,” but for the restoration of internal poverty in the Christian life.  I [...]

This month’s Christianity Today cover story concerns ‘The Search for the Historical Adam’, and includes thoughts from various Christian scientific and biblical camps on the historicity of Adam. Fuz Rana and Hugh Ross from Reasons to Believe (great scholars we’ve had on The Line of Fire multiple times) gave the following response to the article, [...]

There is a well known book among those who read of historic Christian revivals entitled “I Saw the Welsh Revival”, by David Matthews. It’s an eyewitness account of the remarkable outpouring of God’s Spirit in Wales, 1904. It was a time like no other, and there is ample literature and documentation available for those who [...]