Salt & light

Salt & light

Engaging the hearts and minds of individuals and society in general with our God’s revealed Word.

Thoughts on 9.11.01…And 2025

By Len Pine and Julian Gibbs September 11, 2025 Terror comes in all kinds of forms: planes flown into buildings, a knife on a train, a bullet on a platform, shots in a schoolyard, or arson and buckshot on an Idaho hillside. In all of these there are common threads: (1) ignorant, hateful, irrational cowards are the perpetrators; (2) those cowards are all traitors to their homes, their families, themselves, to humanity itself; (3) stupidly, those cowards arrogantly assume that…

A statement on marriage & sexuality

God immutably creates each person as male or female. These two distinct, complementary sexes together reflect the image of God. Rejecting one’s biological sex repudiates the Creator’s sovereignty. (Gen 1:26-27.) “Marriage” is the monogamous covenantal union of one man and one woman for life (Gen 2:18-25), reflecting Christ’s relationship with His Church (Ephesians 5:21-33). Sexual intimacy is only for a man and woman married to each other (Heb 13:4). All sexual immorality is an abomination to God and destructive to…