The Areopagus Blog features insightful articles, reflections, and commentary on a wide range of topics related to faith, culture, and contemporary issues. Written by Dr. Jefrey D. Breshears and other contributing authors, the blog offers thoughtful Christian perspectives designed to inform, challenge, and inspire readers. Explore the latest posts below to engage with ideas that encourage deeper understanding and meaningful dialogue.
📄The Areopagus Update - October/November 2024 Discerning the times in which we live... and a faithful Christian response American Crisis: Cultural Marxism and the Culture War – A Christian Response by Jefrey D. Breshears The philosophical and historical origins of...
Many Christians have been led to believe that we should be apolitical so as to eliminate any unnecessary distractions or impediments in our witness to others. After all, they say, what really matters is the Gospel. The implication of their argument…
📄The Areopagus Update - Oct/Nov 2024 A Vital Component in the Christian Response to a Changing Society and Culture “When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do?” – Psalm 11:3 “ I doubt if there has been a period in all of Christian...
SUNDAYS Beginning August 4th 11:15 am Johnson Ferry Baptist Church Room 276 "A HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN AMERICA: THE HOLINESS AND PENTECOSTAL MOVEMENTS" An overview of the history, theology, and notable people associated with the Holiness movement of the late 1800s...
📄The Areopagus Update - Aug/Sept 2024 A CALL TO WHOLISTIC DISCIPLESHIP Many Christians have been led to believe that we should be as apolitical as possible so as to eliminate any unnecessary distractions or impediments in our witness to others. What really matters,...
Over the past fifteen years, my wife Dollie and I have sought to set aside a Sunday or two each year to visit churches that have particular theological, social and cultural influence and significance in American history – either for better or for worse. This past...
📄The Areopagus Update - Jan/Feb 2024 Eric Metaxas, Letter To the American Church Nancy Pearcey, The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes Greg Koukl, Street Smarts: Using Questions to Answer Christianity’s Toughest Challenges Neil Shenvi,...
📄The Areopagus Update Jan/Feb 2024 Are we living in “the last days” of our uniquely Christian-influenced society and culture? Since its founding in the late 18th century, America has been a unique nation in all of world history – one founded on such revolutionary but...
Following the controversial “Unconditional Conference” sponsored by North Point Community Church on September 29-30, 2023, Pastor Andy Stanley commented in his sermon on October 1 on a critical article written by Dr. Albert Mohler, President of Southern Baptist...
Areopagus Special Seminar HISTORY OF THE JESUS MOVEMENT:WHAT EVERY CHRISTIAN SHOULD KNOW Beginning THIS SUNDAY Dr. Jefrey Breshears will present a 4-part series, "HISTORY OF THE JESUS MOVEMENT: WHAT EVERY CHRISTIAN SHOULD KNOW." You've...
📄The Areopagus Update Aug/Sept 2023 FOUNDATIONS FOR CHRISTIAN FAITH In 1963 Bob Dylan wrote and recorded perhaps the defining song of the decade – and American social and cultural history ever since – with his folk/protest classic, “The Times, They Are A-Changin’.” If...
Last night I saw the Jesus Revolution movie with some friends. Unlike so many "Christian" movies that are notoriously simplistic, this one actually has some depth, and I was not disappointed. (If possible, see the movie with friends – especially if you know anyone who...
We all have a stake in the education of our children. Two years ago, none of us would have dreamed that our tax dollars would be used to transform our schools by advancing an ideological agenda that is anti-freedom, anti-parent, and anti-God. We hope you will join...
September 15-25, 2023 C. S. Lewis was one of the most influential Christians of the 20th century and a prolific author whose writings have impacted Christians across all denominational lines and traditions. In a poll taken by Christianity Today in 2000, Lewis was...
📄The Areopagus Update – Jan/Feb 2023 One of the most important books of 2022 was Letter to the American Church by Eric Metaxas, a best-selling author and host of “Socrates in the City” and the nationally syndicated Eric Metaxas Radio Show. The book is a bold and...
Why are pastors shrinking from speaking God’s Word in all its truth? A prime reason I’ve heard been given is because they are afraid of turning people off to the Christian faith. To this I would say that it’s not the pastor’s responsibility to change people’s hearts....
📄The Areopagus Update – Aug/Sept 2022 Our Areopagus fall seminar is “HOW SHOULD WE NOW LIVE? PART 1: THE LIFE & LEGACY OF FRANCIS SCHAEFFER.” Unless you’re a young adult or a relatively new Christian, you’ve undoubtedly heard of Francis Schaeffer who, along with...
📄The Areopagus Update – Summer 2022 The latest eruption in America’s ongoing culture war exploded prematurely on May 2, 2022 with the unauthorized leaking of a draft opinion from Associate Justice Samuel Alito indicating that the majority of justices on the U.S....
📄The Areopagus Update – Mar/Apr 2022 This past week we witnessed quite a spectacle as the U.S. Senate’s Judiciary Committee held hearings on Joe Biden’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson – perhaps the most radical and least qualified person to ever...
As I wrote in my book, Critical Race Theory: A Critical Analysis (CentrePointe Publishing, 2021), Critical Race Theory (CRT) is a derivative of Marxist Critical Theory, a comprehensive assault on the spiritual, moral, cultural and institutional foundations and...
📄The Areopagus Update – Jan/Feb 2022 CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS Jefrey D. Breshears, The Case for Christian Apologetics: Defending the Truth of the Christian Faith in a Post-Christian and Skeptical Culture (CentrePointe Publishing) Alisa Childers, Another Gospel? A...
📄The Areopagus Update – Jan/Feb 2022 Exploring the Depths of Christian Spirituality and Discipleship Our upcoming Areopagus seminar, "The Inner Journey: Exploring the Depths of Christian Spirituality and Discipleship,” begins on Wednesday, January 12th (for details,...
“In the Fullness of Time” In Galatians 4:4 the apostle Paul writes that “In the fullness of time” God sent forth his Son to redeem us so that we might become true [spiritual] children of God. In other words, Jesus appeared at the most propitious time in history — a...
NOTE: This Thanksgiving – November 25, 2021 – marks the 400th anniversary of the original Thanksgiving feast as celebrated by the “Pilgrims” of Plymouth colony and their Native American neighbors in the autumn of 1621. Although generally a familiar story to many...
Thoughts on the New Film About C. S. Lewis’ Journey from Atheism to Christianity This is a movie that all Christians should see, whether or not they have a particular interest in C. S. Lewis. And there’s a fair chance that if they don’t have that interest “going in,”...
To borrow from Romans 6:23 [“The wages of sin is (spiritual) death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord”], I contend that the wages of critical race theory is cultural death, but the gift of God is the understanding that all people are created...
Last week I wrote an essay on our Areopagus Facebook page and website entitled “Don’t Trust Anyone’s Judgement Who Didn’t See This Coming” that began with this warning: Here is a simple lesson in prudential judgment:Don’t trust anyone’s judgement on any political,...
Friends, See the link below related to Megan McCain’s recent criticism of Joe Biden's Afghanistan policy. Here is a simple lesson in prudential judgment: Do not trust anyone’s judgement on any political, social, cultural, or moral issue of our day who was too ignorant...
📄The Areopagus Update – Aug/Sept 2021 An excerpt from Critical Theory and Critical Race Theory: A Critical Analysis by Jefrey Breshears The Bible and Critical Race Theory Critical Race Theory is not only blatantly Marxist, racist and antiAmerican, but it is...
📘American Crisis: Cultural Marxism and The Culture War: A Christian Response Centre•Pointe Publishing, 2020 No. of pages: 425 Price: $22.95 Available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08DDRM6JQ The Purpose American Crisis is an incisive study and analysis of the origins,...
“The Revolution won’t happen with guns, rather it will happen incrementally, year by year, generation by generation. We will gradually infiltrate their educational institutions and their political offices, transforming them slowly into Marxist entities.” – Max Horkheimer
Do COVID-19 Vaccines Contain Aborted Fetal Cells? Michael B. Sabom, M.D. originally posted 01/22/2021 Note: The following information is based on my experience in the medical field (Internal Medicine and Cardiology), my understanding of the best epidemiology research...
📄The Areopagus Update – May/June 2021 “I am astonished that you are so quickly… turning to a different gospel – which is really no gospel at all. Evidently, some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ.” (Gal. 1:6-7) Like...
📄The Areopagus Update – March/April 2021 “The most comprehensive assault on Christianity ever written into law.” In the January/February edition of The Areopagus Update I wrote of “The Looming Deluge” in which “a ferocious cultural, moral and spiritual storm is...
📄The Areopagus Update – Jan/Feb 2021 One of my favorite recording artists in the 1970s was Jackson Browne. Most of those who know of him remember his music for songs such as “Rock Me on the Water,” “Take It Easy” (a hit single by the Eagles) and “Running on Empty,”...
In keeping with the old Chinese curse, “May you live in ‘interesting’ times,” this has certainly been an ‘interesting’ year. In fact, it has been in many respects a ‘perfect storm’ marked by an unprecedented degree of domestic chaos, dysfunction and disruption as...
~PART 1 ~ I know that many Christians are disheartened and apprehensive as a result of yesterday’s election. The final count is still undecided, and we should pray for a fair and honest counting of all legal votes in states such as Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, North...
Orwellian Hardcore and Huxleyan Softcore Tyranny In their book, How Now Shall We Live?, Charles Colson and Nancy Pearcey contrast the dystopian predictions of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932) with those of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). Both...
The Most Consequential Election Since 1860 –And the Choice Could Not Be Clearer Those who endured the first presidential “debate” (or more accurately, “brawl”) of 2020 on September 30th witnessed perhaps the most disgusting public debacle in the annals of American...
Current Political Realities For the first twenty years of my adult life I sought to be as nonpartisan as possible, realizing that neither party is ideal. But the Democratic Party of the last fifty years – since its lurch leftward in 1972 with the nomination of George...
On Loving One’s Neighbor as Oneself Many Christians have been led to believe that we should be as neutral as possible on the great social and political issues of our time so as to eliminate any unnecessary distractions or impediments in our witness to others. After...
📄The Areopagus Update – Aug/Sept 2020 American CrisisCultural Marxism and the Culture War:A Christian Responseby Jefrey D. Breshears(Centre•Pointe Publishing, 2020)Available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08DDRM6JQ The Purpose American Crisis is an incisive study and...
[Note: I address these issues in considerably more depth in my forthcoming book, American Crisis: The Historical Origins and the Social and Political Consequences of America’s Culture War... and a Christian Response, due for release in July 2020.] Two Foundational...
“Absence of Evidence is NOT Evidence of Absence” Through an online article in the Daily Beast entitled “Everyone’s Favorite Gospel is a Forgery,” Professor Candida Moss has recently brought attention to an academic paper by Professor Hugo Mendez of UNC-Chapel Hill,...
In the apostle Paul’s epistle to the church in Philippi, he writes: “Finally,… whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, If anything is excellent or praiseworthy, think about such things.” Paul...
📄The Areopagus Update – March/April 2020 Writing in the March 12, 2020 edition of the Gospel Coalition website, managing editor Matt Smethurst notes the following: “It’s now clear that COVID-19 is a deadly serious global pandemic, and all necessary precautions should...
📄The Areopagus Update – Jan/Feb 2020 (Excerpts from the new book by Jefrey D. Breshears, C. S. Lewis on Politics, Government, and the Good Society: Relevant Insights and Sage Wisdom for Contemporary Christians (CentrePointe Publishing, 2020) C. S. Lewis is generally...
Part 2 Instructor: Dr. Jefrey Breshears Times and Locations: Tuesdays, 7 - 8:30 PMJanuary 14th - April 14thPerimeter Church / Fellowship Hall. Study Guide and Supplemental Readings: The Late Great Jesus Movement: A Retrospective ($10). Outline notes will be sent out...
On December 19, 2019 the editor in chief of Christianity Today magazine, Mark Galli, published an editorial entitled "Trump Should Be Removed from Office," Galli’s analysis was so flawed that one is tempted to respond with something like “Mark Galli Should Be Removed...
📄The Areopagus Update – Oct/Nov 2019 To paraphrase a famous quote by the renowned English essayist, Dr. Samuel Johnson: “The realization that one is scheduled to hang in the immediate future has a wonderful effect in terms of focusing one’s mind.” I feel somewhat the...
C. S. Lewis was one of the most influential Christians of the 20th century and a prolific author whose writings have impacted Christians across all denominational lines and traditions. In a poll taken by Christianity Today in 2000, Lewis was voted the most popular...
The following books are recommended for Christians who want to build a substantive core library that includes some of the best works in five key areas: (1) The Bible and Biblical Studies; (2) Christian History; (3) Christian Apologetics; (4) Cultural Apologetics and...
📄The Areopagus Update – Aug/Sept 2019 While Paul was in Athens he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols. So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace with those who were there. A group...
Check out our four new seminar courses beginning in early August.Click the titles to see more details. TUESDAYS, BEGINNING AUGUST 13th: Fall 2019 Seminars Frontline Apologetics: How to Effectively Share Your Faith and Values with Spiritual Seekers, Religious...
One of the most enjoyable ways to broaden and deepen our understanding of the past is through the integration of history and the arts, and for much of the 20th century no cultural artform was more attuned to the times than popular music. “American History Off the...
📄The Areopagus Update – March/April 2019 How Did We Get Here... And Why Does It Matter? A recent article in The Epoch Times featured the headline, “More Than 1,000 Scientists Dissent from Darwinism.” Written by Ivan Pentchoukov, the article focuses on two of the most...
📄The Areopagus Update – Jan/Feb 2019 In 1963 Bob Dylan wrote and recorded “The Times They Are A-changin’,” an anthem that helped crystalize and mobilize the massive social, political and cultural protest movements of the decade. Not only was it one of the defining...
📄The Areopagus Update – Oct/Nov 2018 On Loving One's Neighbor As One's Self: The Political Component Many Christians have been led to believe that we should be as apolitical as possible so as to eliminate any unnecessary distractions or impediments in our witness to...
WHO INVENTED GOD? The Evidence for Original Monotheism A special Areopagus Forum with Dr. Winfied Corduan Retired Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Taylor University,and author of In the Beginning God: A Fresh Look at the Case for Original Monotheism WEDNESDAY,...
Many Christians have been led to believe that we should be as neutral as possible on the great social and political issues of our time so as to eliminate any unnecessary distractions or impediments in our witness to others. After all, they say, what really matters is...