Douglas G Shearer

Over the course of the last forty years or so, expository teaching has fallen into disfavor among Gen-Xers and Gen-Yers. It’s a trend rooted in the postmodern mindset that has become so chic among American and European intellectuals. Fifty years ago it was “de rigueur” for a “Western Lit” college pr...

This book courageously probes the many challenges now facing the evangelical church here in America - challenges that far too many Christian leaders are ignoring. With the whole world spinning out of control and events now taking place that clearly correspond to the End Times scenario the Bible spel...

The timing of the Church's Rapture has been and continues to be among premillenarian Christians (i.e., they who affirm a literal 1,000-year reign of the Son of David upon the Earth in the person of the glorified Son of Man) a most contentious issue. They who refrain or boast that they are, consequen...

At the moment, there are two powerful trends developing within evangelicalism: • a pernicious postmodernism that demeans moral and intellectual certainty and presses for accommodation among competing "truths" - a postmodernism that's now "institutionalizing" itself among many of the so-called "emerg...

Throughout the Bible, the description given of persons in a first encounter is very significant: it provides a glimpse of the role they’ve been assigned in God’s Redemptive Plan. Here in Matthew 4 we have Jesus calling his first disciples; and notice carefully what he says: “Follow me, and I will ma...