
Gods, Fathers, and Pastors
“Shall civil power require good motions of the mind and inward repentance? It cannot cause these things: yet it must wish they were had."
“Shall civil power require good motions of the mind and inward repentance? It cannot cause these things: yet it must wish they were had."
Homosexuality is not just “any sin,” but an egregious public sin that infects society.
The fact that political power may be used for evil provides no valid reason for it to be rejected or ignored. Power must be used for good.
But when submission becomes inconsistent with and destructive of the public good, the same veneration for and duty to the divine authority, commands us to oppose.
Slavery to political ideologies ought to be an impossibility for the Christian because he knows that service to earthly authority is an expression of his submission to his heavenly King.
Proverbs is addressed to Israel’s king, but just like all of the non-political proverbs in the book, the ones having to do with political order are timeless.
On hospitality: its limits, conditions, and relation to other moral duties.
Certain aspects of how God made the world do not cease to be operative simply because sin has twisted and deformed those institutions.
This effort will be a massive, long-term project because most radical manifestations of expressive individualism threatening us are the culmination of centuries of intellectual trends.
The amendment passed overwhelmingly with the support of approximately 80% of the SBC’s messengers by raised ballot.