Are You Poor in Spirit?

On Sunday, the greatest preacher that I have ever known was our speaker at Thomas Road Baptist Church. It was my father, Jerry Falwell. We went back and found a message dad gave in 1975, wherein he discussed the proper way for Christians to live for God. It was so...

When God Builds a Team

Isn’t it great to see what God does in the lives of people through the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ! That is the statement I made last Sunday after Russ Dean, our missions outreach pastor at Thomas Road Baptist Church, baptized four people, including a young...

Speaking of the Resurrection

“Without the resurrection, the death of Christ was only the heroic death of a noble martyr; with the resurrection, it is the atoning death the Son of God. It shows that death to be of sufficient value to cover our sins, for it was the sacrifice of the Son of God.”...

The Need for Christian Integrity

“The supreme test of goodness is not in the greater but in the smaller incidents of our character and practice; not what we are when standing in the searchlight of public scrutiny, but when we reach the firelight flicker of our homes; not what we are when some...

God and the Universe and You

Someone recently sent me an article that said, “Though it’s been burning for some 4.5 billion years, the sun is only about halfway through its life.” As believers, we don’t buy into this age of the sun, nor do we believe the sun will one day just peter out.  In fact,...

Truth in a “Fake News” World

We hear a lot these days about “fake news” — news that isn’t news, rather information designed to defame or damage or inflame.  It’s nothing new, really, because people have been trying to hurt their adversaries over the course of human history, in one form or...