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

Foundations of Political Action by Albert Mohler

FROM TABLETALK | August 2005

On August 24 of the year 410, the Visigoths under Alaric entered Rome, and they plundered the city for several days. Within weeks, word of the catastrophe had been conveyed throughout the Roman Empire, even to a small North African …Read More

Confessing Faith by R.C. Sproul Jr.

FROM TABLETALK | August 2005

While it may be true that there are two kinds of people in the world, (those who like to divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don’t), there are in turn myriad places to draw …Read More

Preserving the Godly by Robert Rothwell

FROM TABLETALK | July 2005

The older I get the more I become a news “junkie.” Some of my friends like to tease me because if they call or visit and I am watching television, it is invariably a cable news network of some kind …Read More

The War to End All Wars by R.C. Sproul Jr.

FROM TABLETALK | July 2005

It has long been my habit, which is fitting for the abiding theme of my column here, whenever I speak somewhere, to remind those to whom I am speaking of our historical context. Context is everything. My goal isn’t …Read More

Sanctity of Life by John Davis

FROM TABLETALK | July 2005

The simple but sublime words of Genesis 1:26 that God created mankind in His own image and likeness are some of the most important words in all of Scripture. The teaching that man is the image and likeness of …Read More

The Pornographic Seduction by Albert Mohler

FROM TABLETALK | June 2005

Every culture is challenged by its own seductions, but our culture is confronted with the present undeniable fact that we have transformed seduction into an art form. In essence, the cultures of the West are now examples of what the …Read More

Let It Not Be Named Once by R.C. Sproul Jr.

FROM TABLETALK | June 2005

A given culture’s depravity isn’t measured simply by the percentage of Christians in that culture. Vital to the equation are two other factors. First, and most important, is how spiritually mature those Christians are. Corinth remained a sewer …Read More

Committed Surrender by John Sartelle

FROM TABLETALK | June 2005

“Therefore, let those who suffer according to God’s will entrust their souls to a faithful Creator” (1 Peter 4:19). Whatever happened to dating? I first noticed a decline in dating when our daughter, Jamie, was in high school …Read More

Godly Living in a Sexually Immoral Culture by John Freeman

FROM TABLETALK | June 2005

The call came into my office several months ago. A woman requested to be taken off our mailing list. I assured her that we would comply with her request. I asked the reason she did not want to receive our …Read More

One Flesh by Jay Adams

FROM TABLETALK | June 2005

Liberals have a way of renaming things in order to make them acceptable. When former-President Clinton committed adultery he called it a “mistake.” Of course, it was sin. Everyone knows that the words “choice” and “fetus” have been used to …Read More

A Depraved New World by Gene Edward Veith

FROM TABLETALK | June 2005

Sexual immorality is nothing new, of course, as we can tell from the Bible’s warnings against it. What is new is that sexual immorality now has cultural approval. Men and women who had sex without being married to each …Read More

Cultural Revolution by R.C. Sproul

FROM TABLETALK | June 2005

In the early years of the 1950s the phenomenon of broadcast television was beginning to sweep America. In these early days, however, it was still a small minority of American households that proudly owned a television set. At this time …Read More

Grand Delusions by Burk Parsons

FROM TABLETALK | June 2005

A couple of years ago I met the pastor of an “evangelical“ church in our area. As he told me about the church where he served, he became overwhelmingly excited when he explained that, as a matter of principle, his …Read More

Machen’s Warrior Fathers by R.C. Sproul Jr.

There is no escaping that we serve a God of covenants. It is His habit to work through means. High on that list of means is faithful men with a vision that extends beyond their nose, men who purpose in …Read More