
How Dangerous Hermeneutics Can Inform False Teachers
False teachers abuse God’s word to build their own kingdom, not Christ’s church. A sure sign of trouble is when a preacher abandons careful handling of the text and fails to determine what a passage meant to the original audience.

“Cannabis is in the Bible?”: Debunking an Interpretative Myth
Marijuana advocates often repeat this claim in an effort to gain leverage for the moral permissibility of smoking pot. The claim is so strange and peculiar, pastors, church leaders, and parents can be caught off guard and find themselves ill-prepared to answer this bit of cannabis urban legend.

Medical Marijuana and Christian Ethics
Willie Nelson may be America’s most famous marijuana user. In a recent interview in Rolling Stone, he said: “It’s nice to watch [marijuana] being accepted — knowing you were right all the time about it: that it was not a killer drug. It’s a medicine.”[1] Nelson’s description of marijuana as “medicine” reflects wider confusion in […]

Covid-19 Vaccines and Abortion-Derived Human Cell Lines
How do I respond when a profoundly effective method of preventing disease – vaccination – intersects with my moral opposition to abortion?

Will Democracy Survive in the United States?
A democracy with a citizenry whose conscience is informed by Biblical categories offers the best chance for ensuring basic liberties and self-correcting abuses

Medical Marijuana and Christian Ethics
When listening to claims about medical marijuana, remember Proverbs 14:15, “The naïve believes everything, but the sensible man considers his steps.”

Acts 15, Infanticide, and Using the Bible in Ethics
The Bible gives us the necessary worldview and the essential principles needed for thinking through these issues with the right perspective.

Simple Suggestions for a Successful Church Business Meeting
While business meetings can be a great cause for anxiety, they need not be. Here are a few ideas for avoiding acrimonious business meetings in a local church.

Marriage: A Covenant, Not a Contract
Marriage is a covenant and not a contract. Marriage is intended to be commitment to which we maintain trust and fidelity until separated by death.

The Lies of Romantic Sexual Morality
Often, arguments against the biblical sexual ethic are based on a very poor grasp of Scripture and a shoddy handling of the texts in question.