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Send us Fan Mail TCW Minute: How Can the Divided Sates of America Become United? (Week of Oct. 22, 2018) by David Wheaton

Send us Fan Mail We live in the most prosperous, most powerful, most influential, most charitable, most free nation with the most opportunity in history. And yet despite all this, there is a level of aggrievement, protest, and division that has not been felt since the Civil War nearly fractured the country back in the 1860’s...

Send us Fan Mail What is Speech Act theory? This is David Wheaton, host of The Christian Worldview. The stated purpose of the recent Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel is to clarify the doctrines of God’s Word with regard to race, gender, and sexuality. When asked about the Statement, one highly regarded pastor referenced Speech Act theory saying, “You can’t just analyze words by what they...

Send us Fan Mail The reason the framers of The Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel wrote the document is spelled out in its Introduction: “We are deeply concerned that values borrowed from secular culture are currently undermining Scripture in the areas of race and ethnicity, manhood and womanhood, and human sexuality. The Bible’s teaching on each of these subjects is being challenged under...

Send us Fan Mail Lessons from the Kavanaugh nomination. After weeks of drama, including accusations of sexual assault, protests, and non-stop media coverage, the Senate narrowly voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. There are many lessons here. One is that elections matter. Imagine what kind of judge Hillary Clinton would have nominated had she been president. Consider Kavanaugh’s...

Send us Fan Mail The nomination process of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to fill the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court has been the biggest story of the year in America...

Send us Fan Mail The power of accusation. According to those who work with him, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy, has lived an upstanding life. But very late in the confirmation process, an accusation was brought forward that Kavanaugh, 36 years ago when he was 17, sexually groped a 15-year-old girl. Even without corroborating evidence, the damage...

Send us Fan Mail Last week on the program, we examined the question, “Is President Trump Making America Great” (as per his campaign slogan to “Make America Great Again”).We first looked at whether America is or isn’t a great nation and how humanistic and Christian-based worldviews arrive at very different answers to that question...

Send us Fan Mail Is President Trump making America great? Great nations typically have a strong military, prosperous economy, and domestic security and equity. President Trump has strengthened America in many of these categories. But Christians should pray for him to set a better moral and interpersonal example. Psalm 2 says: “Take warning, O judges of the earth. Worship the Lord with reverence …...

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Send us Fan Mail Back in August, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo stated, ”We’re not going to make America great again. It was never that great.”This is the sentiment of many on the political left, who view America as historically and structurally racist against blacks, sexist against women, intolerant toward Muslims and other non-Christians, bigoted toward homosexuals and transgenders, and not near...

Send us Fan Mail Social justice is a gospel issue? This is David Wheaton, host of The Christian Worldview. That statement—“Social justice is a gospel issue”—has become the rallying call of many evangelicals, as in Christians must work to end perceived oppression. But is that biblically supportable? Well, what did Jesus say and do? Did He work to end the structures of racism, sexism, and the myriad...

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Send us Fan Mail “Social justice is a gospel issue.” If you’ve heard this said once recently, you’ve likely heard it dozens of times. This phrase has become the rallying cry of prominent evangelical leaders, many of which are under 50, who believe that Christians and the church have the duty to rectify perceived injustices against blacks, women, homosexuals/transgenders, and other designated oppre...

Send us Fan Mail Once saved, always saved? This is David Wheaton, host of The Christian Worldview. It’s an age-old debate about whether a Christian can lose their salvation. Jesus gives a clear answer in John 10 where He says: My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; 28 and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. 29 M...

Send us Fan Mail The last two weeks on the program, we have discussed discernment and apostasy. Discernment is the call for the believer to measure everything, especially spiritual teachers and their teaching, against the truth of Scripture, so that sound doctrine can be elevated and errant doctrine can be exposed and removed. Where discernment is not exercised, all manner of false teaching fills...

Send us Fan Mail What is apostasy? The Bible says, “in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons…” (1 Tim. 4:1)That’s apostasy—departing from primary doctrines of the faith, such as twisting the nature and character of God or the parson and work of Christ....

Send us Fan Mail ast week on the program, Mike Gendron, founder of Proclaiming the Gospel, joined us to discuss the importance of discernment, which is the ability to distinguish between truth and error, especially when the error contains truth. Mike used the example in Acts 17 of the Bereans, who received Paul’s preaching with “great eagerness” but practiced discernment by “examining the Scriptur...

Send us Fan Mail Last week on the program, Mike Gendron, founder of Proclaiming the Gospel, joined us to discuss the importance of discernment, which is the ability to distinguish between truth and error, especially when the error contains truth. Mike used the example in Acts 17 of the Bereans, who received Paul’s preaching with “great eagerness” but practiced discernment by “examining the Scriptu...

Send us Fan Mail Are you practicing discernment? This is David Wheaton, host of The Christian Worldview. The apostle John said, “Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world (1 John 4:1).Do we really believe this, that there are many professing Christians sewing seeds of error that lead people...

Send us Fan Mail Discernment is the ability to distinguish between truth and error. It’s a sharp biblical worldview that follows Paul’s exhortation to “examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good; abstain from every form of evil” (1 Thessalonians 5:21-22 [Open in Logos Bible Software (if available)] ).The mantra in the Evangelical church today is to “Keep it positive—we need to b...

Send us Fan Mail Make America Great Again … Or Was It Never Great? This is David Wheaton, host of The Christian Worldview. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo recently said: “We're not going to make America great again. It was never that great.”Those who share Gov. Cuomo’s Leftist worldview point to America’s history of slavery and sexism to show that America has never been great. America, as all...

Send us Fan Mail New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) said at a bill signing event this past week, “We’re not going to make America great again. It was never that great.”Of course the impetus for this comment is in response to Pres. Donald Trump’s campaign slogan and repeated call to “Make America Great Again.”Governor Cuomo’s remark is representative of many with Left-leaning views that America has...

Send us Fan Mail Lessons from the implosion at Willow Creek Church. This is David Wheaton, host of The Christian Worldview. Willow Creek in Chicago is one of the largest and most influential evangelical churches. Founder and former senior pastor Bill Hybels innovated the “seeker sensitive” model of gearing church to non-believers or seekers. An implosion took place this past week at Willow Creek w...