Producer's Desk — evangelicals

Come see Richard Land in Richmond, VA on Saturday, Feb 13.

He’ll be speaking at Grove Avenue Baptist Church at the In God We Trust conference. Other guests include, David Barton, Steven McDowell, Craig Parshall.

Register here. (Conference & lunch = $24, Conference only = $17)

Richard will broadcast Richard Land LIVE at the conference.

Special Guest Dr. Cal Beisner

• Global-warming theology - Washington Times

• Join the Declaration

• BOOK: Prospects for Growth: A Biblical View of Population, Resources, and the Future - Cal Beisner

• More books by Cal.

Marvin Olasky (World Magazine has published highlights from a discussion at The King’s College (NY) with Richard Land and Eric Metaxas.

Excerpt:

Land: When we look at our culture today, we have to try to understand, and ask God to help us learn, how to explain the gospel to people who don’t have ready biblical references. I read an article in Time magazine about the lack of religion in some parts of America. One couple came to see an Episcopal priest after they had been to a service, and they said, “Our teenage son wants to know who the man is hanging on the plus sign.” They didn’t know it was Jesus and they didn’t know it was a cross. That sounds far-fetched to some of us, but I’ve been some places in our country where it’s not as far-fetched as you might think.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to live a whole gospel before that world out there. The idea that there’s a social gospel and a spiritual gospel is an invention of the devil. There is only one gospel, and it is a whole gospel for whole people. It is blasphemous to go out and seek to feed the hungry and not tell them about the bread of life, or to seek to house the homeless and not tell them that in our father’s house are many mansions, or to seek to give water to the thirsty and not tell them about the rivers of living water. It is also a denial of the incarnation to go preach the gospel and ignore the fact that people are hungry and thirsty and naked and homeless. We are to do both.

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• Executive Summary on Sotomayor from the ERLC
  • Sotomayor Fact Sheet
• Is There Hope for the American Marriage? - Time Mag
• Mapping America Project
• Is Christianity in the U.S. doomed? by Marvin Olasky
• Ready to Compete - Olasky interviews John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
  • God is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith Is Changing the World by Micklethwait and Wooldridge
• ANALYSIS: God is not dead and neither is Christianity in America - by Will Hall
• ANALYSIS: What do the numbers mean — is the SBC in decline? Part 1 -by Will Hall
• ANALYSIS: What do the numbers mean — is the SBC in decline? Part 2 - by Will Hall
• ANALYSIS: Are evangelicals fractured & losing influence in the public square? - by Will Hall

Health Care

• Free Our Health Care Petition
• Guest bio: John Goodman

Church & State

• Guest: Erwin Lutzer’s website
• Book: Is God on America’s Side?: The Surprising Answer and How It Affects Our Future - Erwin Lutzer
• Hitlers Cross - Erwin Lutzer
• Slandering Jesus: Six Lies People Tell about the Man Who Said He Was God - Erwin Lutzer
• Is God on America’s Side? audio interview CD - For Faith & Family

This interview with Richard Land from Dan Gilgoff of U.S. News and World Report:

Interview: Southern Baptist Convention’s Richard Land on Obama Transition Team’s Religious Outreach Offensive

“For my story today on the Obama transition team reaching out actively to religious groups as it crafts a policy agenda and prepares to set up its own version of the Bush White House’s Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives, I wanted to know if conservative religious groups were receiving the same red-carpet treatment as their faith-based counterparts on the left. So, I called Richard Land, president of the public policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest evangelical denomination. Here’s our interview…”

Read the complete interview…

” The new evangelicals, just in case anyone missed the storyline, were not so backward as to vote on issues like abortion and gay marriage. They were enlightened about the environment and favored government aid to the poor.

Well, whoever these new evangelicals were, they didn’t show up at the polls on Tuesday.” - Naomi Schaefer Riley

My latest post at Casting Stones:

As Sally Quinn reasoned in the Washington Post, if Southern Baptists are opposed to a woman being the pastor of a local church, why would they support a woman as vice president? Aren’t they being inconsistent, if not hypocritical?

Now we have David Gushee (a self-identified “moderate evangelical”) discussing the “Palin Predicament,” which he described as “how can the theological vision that women are subservient to men jibe with a Palin vice presidency?”

As a Southern Baptist, a conservative Evangelical, and a member of both the committee that formulated the Southern Baptists’ confessional statement on “The Family” in 1998 and the committee that revised the denomination’s confession of faith in 2000, I feel compelled to respond…

Read the complete column…

Dr. Richard Land will be on Fox & Friends Saturday morning at 6:50 AM CT/7:50 AM ET on the Fox News Channel.

He will be discussing McCain’s VP pick, Governor Sarah Palin, as well as the Senator’s outreach to Evangelicals.

My latest post at Casting Stones:

At the Saddleback Civil Forum, Sen. McCain said that he was pro-life and would have a pro-life administration. The first selection of a prospective McCain administration has been made, and the senator could not have made a more pro-life appointment. I have already received two calls from pro-life Evangelical women who are delighted almost beyond words that they will now have a prominent pro-life woman who is the mother of five as one of the most prominent spokespersons for their cause. Gov. Palin is a person of faith and a devoted wife and mother whose oldest son volunteered to serve his country and will be deployed to Iraq shortly…

Read the complete post…