Angels and Demons Go Pop Culture by Gene Edward Veith

FROM TABLETALK | July 2007

“I believe there are angels among us,” sang the pop-country group Alabama to the accompaniment of a children’s choir. And most Americans agree. According to a 2005 Fox News poll, 79 percent of Americans believe in angels. This belief …Read More

The Devil in the Details by R.C. Sproul Jr.

FROM TABLETALK | July 2007

The Christian is engaged in a three-front war. The Bible, replete with martial language, bears this out. The great evil trinity against which we fight is the world, the flesh, and the Devil. In our day we have made …Read More

Kingdoms in Conflict by R.C. Sproul Jr.

FROM TABLETALK | June 2007

It is the special gift of the serpent that he is not only able to construct his own diabolical versions of the things of God but that he is able in turn to disguise what he is doing. He …Read More

Cultural Evangelism, Seventh-Century Style by Gene Edward Veith

FROM TABLETALK | August 2007

Christians today often talk about evangelizing the culture, transforming the culture, and finding ways to communicate with people of another culture. What that looks like can be seen in seventh-century English literature. J.R.R. Tolkien was as great …Read More

When Christianity Shaped the Arts by Gene Edward Veith

FROM TABLETALK | August 2007

Christians today often talk about influencing the culture through the arts. This often means, in practice, Christians letting themselves be influenced by the culture through the arts. In the seventh century, though, we see Christianity as a powerful imaginative and …Read More

Believing God by R.C. Sproul Jr.

FROM TABLETALK | August 2008

We live in an age of spin and propaganda. We no longer weigh careful arguments and reach our conclusions judiciously. Instead, we inhabit what one cultural critic called a “sensate culture.” We do not think, we feel. We do not …Read More

Where Is Your Treasure? by John Petersen

FROM TABLETALK | March 2008

As I was flipping through the television channels recently, I was overwhelmed to see how secularism is influencing our culture today, particularly through advertising. In the teaching series Christian Worldview, Dr. Sproul describes secularism as that which looks at reality …Read More

Christ and Culture by Keith Mathison

FROM TABLETALK | January 2009

In the first centuries following the death and resurrection of Jesus the Messiah and the inauguration of the new covenant under which the people of God became a trans-national people crossing all borders, the church had few choices in the …Read More

The Death of Pride by R.C. Sproul Jr.

FROM TABLETALK | October 2004

I once had a girlfriend who was a classic liberal. Don’t misunderstand. She wasn’t a classical liberal, that is, one with a profound desire for liberty, one who was skeptical about the role of the state. No, strangely …Read More

Beacon of Holiness by Alistair Begg

FROM TABLETALK | October 2004

“If the Word does not dwell with power in us,” wrote Puritan John Owen, “it will not pass with power from us” (The Works of John Owen, vol. 16, p. 76.). This godly minister personified this truth in his personal …Read More

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by Gene Edward Veith

FROM TABLETALK | August 2004

The Edict of Milan in A.D. 313 legalized Christianity. Toleration of this new faith in Rome was not a gradual development. It happened suddenly, right after some of the most brutal persecutions of Christians. Soon, Roman officials were kissing …Read More

Changing the World by R.C. Sproul Jr.

FROM TABLETALK | September 2005

Pop culture is a sanitizing force. No, it doesn’t make the world a cleaner place. It just makes us all the more the same. We are a world awash in golden arches, swooshes, and the real thing. Because people …Read More

Civilization & Its Discontents by R.C. Sproul Jr.

Sometimes the lofty are rather low. Paul in writing to the Corinthians enjoins them, and therefore us, to “destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God.” Though the giddy optimism of our Enlightenment fathers has dimmed …Read More

Don’t Look Back by R.C. Sproul Jr.

FROM TABLETALK | January 2004

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. I’ll admit I got taken in the first time. As a grade school child my conception of cool included too tight silk shirts and blue jeans with …Read More

The Antidoe to Post-humanism by Albert Mohler

FROM TABLETALK | July 2005

Are you ready for the posthuman future? We are living in an age of radical transformations in science, technology, and worldview. Standing at the center of the worldview now dominant in our society is an affirmation that human beings have …Read More