A Farewell Letter to Our Students

My Beloved Students in Christ: I greet you in the precious name of our blessed Savior, The Lord Jesus Christ. I want to thank you for your prayers for me and my family. I have received the most touching letters from our students that will always remind Continue Reading

A Thank You to Prayer Partners

Dear Friends in Christ and Prayer Partners: Greetings to you in the precious name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Since November 1, 2007, when I accepted the role of president at RTS and subsequently was elected Chancellor of RTS, leaving my Continue Reading

Green and Evergreen: The Secular Environmental Movement and Biblical Care for Creation

The current cultural climate is a veritable greenhouse for growing ever-mutating myths about Christians, particularly evangelicals, and their concern for the earth.[1] The charge that there is a “huge burden of guilt”[2] to be born by evangelical Continue Reading

Stay Alert-Stay Alive: Boston Bombing was One Front in an Ongoing War

Boston Red Sox

It was enough to choke up even the hardest core Yankee fan. When the Boston Red Sox fans, players and coaches, police, government officials, marching bands, military, and more American flags flying since George Bush stood on top of the rubble of the Word Continue Reading

There’s Leadership and then there are Leaders

There are many who are called to positions of leadership. Yet leadership is not about a title. It is not about gaining a consensus. Leadership is about burden, conviction, a fire burning deeply, a holy discontentment, a righteous indignation. There are Continue Reading

They Can Try to Disrupt Her Funeral, But They Cannot Dishonor Her Legacy: The Boston Bombing and Why Margaret Thatcher Matters Now More than Ever

The Boston bombing has only heightened the need for her style of unflinching leadership in today’s world. Yet The Daily Mail and others are reporting that this Wednesday, 17 April, as the funeral cortège bearing the body of Great Britain's only female Continue Reading

More Meddling with the Military

It wasn't supposed to be this way. It was supposed to be an easy integration of progressive thinking on human sexuality into the United States military. It would be the right thing to do. Despite the overwhelming protests from within its ranks, the Continue Reading

War on the Military

So now the Secretary of Defense has announced the military will allow women in combat. This egalitarian move supposedly clears the way for better promotion opportunities for women in the Army, heretofore, barred by law from combat roles. The Continue Reading

Biblical Vision for Church and Your Life Urgently Needed

On the day of the tragic Connecticut shootings, I shared personal time with Michael Reagan, son of the 40th president of the United States. It just so happened, that Michael and I were to be speaking about an upcoming book. What really came out of that Continue Reading

“Do You Get the Picture?”—Classic Christmas Films through the Lens of Creation, Fall, and Redemption

The greatest stories are stories that show in some way the drama of Creation, Fall and Redemption.Such stories are great not merely because that is the very drama that we are all experiencing (or may experience, for of the three movements, only redemption Continue Reading