Daniel C. Elliott Jr.

A Widower’s Story of Redemption It’s December 2025, and I’ve recently become engaged to the woman I love. I call her Kat, though her given name is Karen. After a bit of online conversation, we met in person for the first time back in June at a little café ironically called Karen’s Bakery. From the […]

It was 2013 when LGBTQ activist Matthew Vines launched a ministry called the Reformation Project, whose sole agenda was to “advance LGBTQ inclusion in the church,” denying that the practice of homosexuality is sin. Since then, many churches have become fully LGBTQ-affirming, and many others are headed in that direction. The lie used to promote

Salvation is not a single event but a journey of grace, carefully guided by God from beginning to end. Throughout Scripture, we see that coming to faith in Christ and growing in Him is not dependent on human effort—it’s the result of God’s gracious work in our lives. This process, often referred to as the

In contemporary theological discourse, a growing number of Christians have embraced the idea of soteriological inerrancy—the belief that the Bible is error-free only in matters directly pertaining to salvation. While this perspective seeks to reconcile faith with the complexities of modern biblical scholarship, it raises significant concerns. Though appealing in its apparent simplicity, soteriological inerrancy is

Growing up in the Church of the Nazarene, I was taught since the day I was capable of grasping such things, that the Bible is inspired by God, infallible in its purpose, and inerrantly true. In every instance the subject came up, the inerrancy of Scripture was consistently affirmed. No Nazarene pastor or teacher, in

In the whimsical world of childhood nostalgia, there lurks a grinning purple theropod tirelessly romping through the memories of children now grown up. This behemoth of jolly chaos is none other than Barney the Dinosaur. Every weekday morning on the PBS Network from April 1992 until November 2010, after approximately 30 minutes of mind-numbing befuddlery,

In the classic movie “On The Waterfront,” former boxer turned dockworker Terry Malloy, portrayed by Marlon Brando, grapples with internal conflict amid the violence and corruption dictated by the ruthless union boss, Johnny Friendly. Haunted by regrets and unrealized dreams from his boxing days, Terry finds himself entangled in the union’s corrupt practices. The pivotal

In recent years, there has been a growing trend within some Christian circles to employ feminine terminology or to erase biblically consistent masculine terminology when addressing God, and particularly the Holy Spirit. While these developments are often motivated by a desire to reflect modern concerns regarding inclusivity and equality, they raise significant theological and hermeneutical

Eighteenth-century Anglican priest John Wesley spoke of salvation as having two general parts—justification and sanctification (The Scripture Way of Salvation). When we first come to faith in Jesus Christ, we become justified, which is to say, saved from the guilt and condemnation of our sins. Simultaneously, the lifelong process of sanctification begins, which is the