Resources by Topic: Doctrine and Theology

The good news that Christ died for our sins, and that he rose from the dead to open eternal life, and that salvation is by grace through faith—all that is for everyone who believes.

This week is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion in America in 1973.

God does not inflict upon us the psychological battering of the cross in order to leave us in a tormented condition. It is at the cross where we are offered through the gospel the very righteousness of Jesus Christ.

I’m often asked why I use the term “Elyon” in reference to God in my novel Deadline (and again in Dominion).

The evidence from daily headlines “violence, corruption, bizarre cruelty” has accumulated to the point that it cannot be ignored. You no longer have to be a conservative Christian to see that our civilization is tottering.

The following are notes and overhead transparencies developed by Randy Alcorn and used in his Contemporary Social Ethics class.

This is the course syllabus for Contemporary Social Ethics. 

I used this article in a course I taught at Multnomah Bible College—Soc 111, Contemporary Social Ethics.

The issue is not “Is capital punishment always right?” No one maintains that capital punishment is right for every crime, or when carried out by just anyone. When it is mistakenly carried out against the innocent it is horribly wrong. The real issue should be phrased, “Is capital punishment ever right, and if so in what cases?”