by Mark Marshall | Jan 26, 2023 | Anglicans, Apostasy, Baptists, False Teachers and Their Enablers, LGBTQIetc, Orthodox, Religious Freedom, Totalitarians, Woke Church
Sometimes, I think people get the wrong impression about me and about the rest of us at Stand Firm. People might think we are gloomy, cranky, and downright cantankerous about the advances of gay marriage and gender multiplication and general inclusion in church and...
by Anne Kennedy | Jan 20, 2023 | LGBTQIetc, Religious Freedom, Sexuality, Social Justice, The Gospel, Totalitarians
Well, this was a bad week of bad news. There was that horrible abuse of those two young boys by their adoptive “parents.” I didn’t make it through even one story about them without having my stomach turn over in distress. And then also this one about...
by Anne Kennedy | Nov 20, 2022 | Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, Corrupt Media, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Freedom of Speech, Garden-Variety Malaise, Jesus, LGBTQIetc, Religious Freedom, Woke Church
The Church Year is drawing to a swift close and the final Sunday, Christ the King, is upon us. Besides being a moment to sing some glorious hymns, it is also a fitting hour to make a most essential declaration–that Christ is the ruler over the world, over time,...
by Matt Kennedy | Oct 21, 2022 | Justice, Podcast, Religious Freedom, U.S. Politics
On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick talk about Christian Nationalism, wonder if there’s any way to keep one’s deeply held beliefs out of politics, and discuss our overriding hope: the reign of King Jesus. Need more Stand Firm?...
by Matt Kennedy | Jan 21, 2022 | LGBTQIetc, Podcast, Religious Freedom, Sexuality, The Gospel, U.S. Politics
On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick discuss Canada’s new anti-“conversion therapy” law, some Finnish criminal charges, and the centrality of conversion to the Christian Gospel. Need more Stand Firm? Subscribe to the pod on...
by Anne Kennedy | Jan 16, 2022 | Church Year, Garden-Variety Malaise, Religious Freedom, The Gospel
I had some things to say about that piece about proselytizing back on Friday—there was so much there that I couldn’t then, nor now, possibly comment on. But as I was pondering the lections for today, this paragraph struck me afresh: By contrast, I believe that...
