The Watchman's Bagpipes

There has been a steady erosion of confidence in Scripture for several decades, cumulating in theological and/or practical elimination of th...

In his compelling book, A Letter to the American Church, Eric Metaxas notes the frightening similarities between the contemporary American ...

 

The evangelical church must shoulder much of the blame for the drainage of scriptural knowledge from our society, a knowledge that was co...

For two decades [as of 2006] the church-growth experts have told us that if we are to attract the unchurched, we must change the way we “...

Heresy Hiding in Plain Sight . 2 hrs/24 min radio program exposing Hillsong’s “worship music.” The first 10-15 minutes waiting to get int...

If I see aright, the cross of popular evangelicalism is not the cross of the New Testament. It is, rather, a new bright ornament upon the...

Children’s ministries have for years focused on playtime and coloring; teens have been treated like large children who need to be enterta...

There are more instructions given in the New Testament regarding elders than on other important church subjects such as baptism, the Lord’s...

Churches have gradually shifted away from offering basic Bible study in favor of studies that are topical or devotional, adopting formats...

Today, there is so much talk about how to make our church services more culturally relevant, especially to the unconverted. However effec...

Years of prosperity here in America have produced a younger generation that is not as loyal as their parents to their church and Christia...

Church architecture varies. Every church building communicates some kind of nonverbal message. In the past, the Gothic cathedral was desi...

These quotations are from 2009 posts, which I thought needed to be brought up again! On Modern "Praise" I’m always suspic...

Yet most probably the greatest danger in the coming generations will not be in the extremes but in the soft center of almost-anything-goe...

The greatest scholars of our age, liberal and not only conservative, along with the united voices of the greatest scholars of all the age...

For a generation now the air has been thick with talk of “changing the world,” but who is changing whom? There is no question that the wo...

It is really getting more and more difficult to determine what topics of news items is bad and what are just plain ugly!  There may be so...

A church fed on excitement is no New Testament church at all.  The desire for surface stimulation is a sure mark of the fallen nature, the ...

This past Sunday, while out to lunch at my favorite Mexican restaurant in a nearby small town, we saw a sticker on a car which said, “Inf...