by John Ensor | May 5, 2020 | Biblical Thinking, Blog, Culture, Food for thought, Missions
Getting Back to Dangerous Living and Cross-Bearing Work COVID-19, death, social-distancing, recession, trillion-dollar spending, lost civil liberties, lost income—does not all this leave us sad beyond words? How will we move forward? Can we return to normal? Grieving,...
by John Ensor | Dec 6, 2019 | Biblical Thinking, Blog, Food for thought, Missions
After Satan enticed Adam to join him in breaking faith with God, God announced his plan to fight for life and to wage a war of love against the powers of death. He said to Satan, “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her...
by John Ensor | Nov 22, 2019 | Biblical Insights on Abortion, Biblical Thinking, Blog, Culture, Food for thought, Missions
In Oradea, Romania, Mihaela and Gabby Visan run a pregnancy help center inside a women’s hospital. Their effectiveness is severely limited by one fact: women must pay for their abortion before they can talk to anyone, committing them to abortion, even if they arrive...
by John Ensor | Nov 7, 2019 | Biblical Insights on Abortion, Biblical Thinking, Blog, Culture, Missions, Music
Percy Bysshe Shelly once said, “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” In A Defense of Poetry, he explains, “The great secret of morals is love, or a going out of our nature. . . . To be greatly good, [a man] must put himself in the place of another....
by John Ensor | Nov 1, 2019 | Biblical Thinking, Blog, Culture, Food for thought, Missions
Almost eight years ago, I wrote to encourage the church to pray for the Third Wave. I argued that the end of abortion as a business would be in sight when the prolife movement was not only joined, but led, by Black and Latino Christians. I was wrong, at least...
by John Ensor | Oct 25, 2019 | Biblical Insights on Abortion, Biblical Thinking, Blog
I have learned something in recent years. People come to cherish words like atonement and justification when you expose them to other words like bloodguilt and reckoning. I’ve tried to teach gospel-centric words effectively as stand-alone concepts. It has produced a...
