2001 Newsletter Archive

Winter 2001 - Left Behind Novels Flawed

Many of the LEFT BEHIND series of religious novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins made the New York Times best seller's list. They are now being produced into a series of motion pictures with video releases. Fiction it is. Biblical teaching it is not.

April 2001 - A "Faith-Based" War on Poverty? "Compassion . . . compassion. . . compassion. . . .compassion. . . ."

The keynote word in the presidential inaugural speech was "compassion." Almost immediately upon occupying the nation's highest office, the new president established a White House office for coordinating "faith-based charities" with the government. Yes, the poor need more compassion than ever in this stampeding world of inflation, job instability—and corporate giants. . . .

May 2001 - Evangelical Doctrinal Changes

Although the Reformation began in AD 1518, its progress has been slow. The early 1800s witnessed a major revulsion to the rabid predestination views of the Protestant establishment as reflected in the preaching of Jonathan Edwards. He set the theological tone of the 1700s.

October 2001 - A Bible in Stone

While the Great Pyramid has not revealed any great cosmological constant, it confirms the Bible’s answers to mankind's most important questions.

November 2001 - Hope Beyond the Terror

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, still fresh in our minds, have thrust us all into a new and seemingly more ominous world, one that is less safe than we had imagined it to be.