ITS: A Life-Giving Oasis

In the July 2016 issue of Tabletalk Magazine, Al Mohler, President of THe Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, proffers a sobering assessment of the challenges facing the church in America. He writes, “The Christian church in the West now faces a set of moral challenges that exceeds anything it has experienced in the past.” Many pastors, theologians, and orthodox Christian thinkers would not disagree with Mohler. It can be sobering and somewhat alarming to conclude that indeed the church no longer occupies a central place in the public square. Are we a moral minority? Perhaps not yet. Nevertheless, the times we live in require much of us. ...

ITS Distinctives, ApologeticsSteve SandvigOctober 12, 2016 Comment

Truth & Unity at 499 Years

Next month marks the 499th anniversary of what is typically called the dawn of the Protestant Reformation. On October 31st, 1517 Martin Luther pinned 95 theses to the Wittenberg castle-church door in the hopes of engaging other ecclesiastics in theological debate. The theses were originally written in Latin, the theological lingua franca of the day. His zealous students, however, seeing the value of a wider circulation, took the theses down, translated them into German—the local lingua vulgaris of the day—and rushed them off to this new thing called the “printing press.” From there many copies could be made and disseminated, eventually, all over Europe. ...

ITS Distinctives, Church HistoryNicholas PiotrowskiSeptember 12, 2016Reformation, Church Unity Comments

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