by Ron Henzel | May 13, 2021 | #metoo, Cancel Culture, Christian living, Culture and Society, Online Shaming, Social Media, Spiritual Abuse
No one with a modicum of cultural awareness could have missed the fact that in the past few years a rather intense media spotlight has been shined on all types of abuse—physical, sexual, emotional, spiritual, etc. And nothing has served to more clearly train this...
by Ron Henzel | Jan 7, 2021 | Gay Marriage, Gender identity, Gospel, Homosexuality, Identity Politics
C.S. Lewis said many famous things, but one of the most striking was his declaration, “You have never talked to a mere mortal.”1The Weight of Glory, (San Francisco, CA, USA: HarperSanFrancisco, 2001), 46. Lewis was reflecting on the biblical teaching that, after the...
by Ron Henzel | Oct 25, 2018 | Abortion, Donald Trump, Evangelical, Evangelicalism, Politics, Sociology, Uncategorized
It’s been a long time since the word “evangelical” meant anything specific in common currency. Back in 1971, long before it became a focus of pollsters like Gallup,1Cf. “5 Things to Know About Evangelicals in America,” by Frank Newport,...
by Ron Henzel | Oct 10, 2018 | Free Speech, Freedom, Offended, Offending Words, Political Correctness, Politics, Progressives
I would be very interested to know what the weather was like in Washington, DC on Thursday, May 22, 1856. It had been an unusually long winter across the Midwest and Eastern seaboard of the United States that year. The capital itself had seen remarkably cold...
by Ron Henzel | Aug 2, 2018 | Creeds, Confessions, and Catechisms, Emerging Church
For most of the 20th century, American evangelicals became increasingly out-of-touch with something that served as one of the most important sources of theological cohesiveness for the previous 1,700 years: the historic creeds. Many Bible-believing Christians still...
Ron, great research, insight, and a fair differentiation between MacArthur and Gothard. I had to laugh at the "Gothard 5:8"…
Lordship salvation and the "Umbrella of protection" are different things. Bill Gothard is an eclectic mystic who hears ideas he…
Question? Does this have anything to do with Lordship Salvation's concepts that MacArthur teaches? I am glad you brought this…
“ Now, in every theological error, there is usually an element of truth.” There is always real cheese in a…
That is an interesting and, as it turns out, a false accusation. The criteria we draw on are not of…