Dr Paul Allen

“The information that was left out of our announcement is that I have undergone a massive shift in regard to my faith in Jesus. The popular phrase for this is ‘deconstruction,’ the biblical phrase is ‘falling away.’ By all the measurements that I have for defining a Christian, I am not a Christian. Many people tell me that there is a different way to practice faith and I want to remain open to this, but I’m not there now.” – Joshua Harris When anyone walks away from the Lord Jesus Christ, it is a devastating thing. When a respected leader who wrote books, pastored a large church, and who led many people to Christ does it, it can be all the more devastating. But when it is a respected leader whom God used, not only to help someone grow spiritually but who led them to Christ, it can prove to be earth-shattering. In a bathroom in Seoul, South Korea, a young man crying his eyes out as he read Dug Down Deep by Joshua Harris . Right then and there he asked the Lord to save him a...

Joshua Harris, the author of the Christian self-help bestseller I Kissed Dating Goodbye, recently announced that he is both divorcing his wife and no longer considers himself a Christian, in the process apologizing to “the LGBTQ+ community” for having previously espoused a traditional Christian sexual ethic.  The book’s publishers bill I Kissed Dating Goodbye as presenting a “call to sincere love, real purity, and purposeful singleness” while providing “solid, biblical alternatives to society's norm.” In the book, Harris advocated a more courtship-like model of forming relationships, including greater involvement of both partner’s parents and getting to know potential spouses in group settings. Harris has come under fire over the years for several aspects of the book, and in a statement on his website says he no longer stands by everything he wrote. “I now think dating can be a healthy part of a person developing relationally and learning the qualities that matter most ...

Top theological posts from a reformed position  Diabolical Ventriloquism: A 1-Sentence Summary of Each of Screwtape’s Letters How should churches relate to others with same-sex attractions? Read Peter Hubbard. 3 Reasons I Don’t Enthusiastically Recommend the History Channel’s “The Bible: The Epic Miniseries” Wayne Grudem on the Jason Bourne Films Piper Illustrates for Children How Faith Glorifies God Keller and Carson: Greco-Roman Slavery ≠ Race-Based Slavery Don Whitney: How Can I Be Sure I’m a Christian? Top 10 Tips for Being Clearer How a Recent Thesis Defines the Glory of God 6 Discontinuities between the Old and New Covenants Carson: The most painful things I’ve ever borne are betrayals by Christian friends How to Listen on Double Speed with an iPhone or iPod How Reliable Is Your Memory? 3 Practical Lessons Murray Harris’s 6-Page Expanded Paraphrase of Colossians Joshua Harris’s New Book: Humble Orthodoxy The Best Book on Sexual Purity MacArthur: “It’s very...

Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia Understanding God ’s Design for Sex and Marriage by Challies.com The Meaning of Marriage  by Tim Keller. This book looks at the friendship and companionship and sex and everything else God has packaged into the marriage relationship. It celebrates it all and it does it within the greatest context of all—the gospel of Jesus Christ . (Check out some of the  free resources  related to this book.) This Momentary Marriage  by John Piper . Piper puts a lot of effort into writing about the link between the union of husband and wife and the union of Christ to his church.You can listen to or watch (for free) the  sermon series  this book came from. Sex, Romance, and the Glory of God  by  C.J. Mahaney . Mahaney does a good job of challenging men to be godly husbands. The enduring wisdom here is never to touch your wife’s body until you’ve touched her heart and her mind. Read...