Hank Speaks Out Archive

I want to start the broadcast by talking about the new Christians. In fact, there is a book I just read by Tony Jones called The New Christians, it’s subtitled, “Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier”. What’s interesting to read in this book is a clarion call that not only the methods of Christianity must change [...]

We start today’s broadcast with a Facebook question from Sean, who asks, “Hank is America mentioned in the Bible?”   The answer is, of course, no, America is not mentioned in the Bible, only prophecy pundits with a Bible in one hand and a newspaper in the other find the U.S. in biblical prophecy.   [...]

We start the broadcast today with a Facebook question from Richard who writes, “I would love help understanding what Hebrews 7:3 is communicating?” Of course that is the very enigmatic passage that you find concerning Melchizedek. He is described as “king of righteousness, and “king of Salem,” which means king of peace” (Heb. 7:2). He [...]

Let me answer a Facebook question from Alison, who writes, “Should we ever try to control the number of children we have? More specifically, should a woman ever have her tubes tied, or should a man get a vasectomy?”   I don’t know why people ask me these questions? I have twelve children, nine natural [...]

I want to answer a Facebook question from David. Here’s his question, he asks, “Can anything involving human beings contain the inerrant Word of God”?   The short answer to that question is “yes.” It’s true that humans are fallible vessels that they’re prone to error, but that in no way precludes the inerrancy of [...]

Over the last few years in particular there are so many Christians that ask me about the mark of the beast. They are fearful of taking on the mark of the beast inadvertently and particularly so, since the Food and Drug Administration approved the marketing of a microchip that you can implant under the skin [...]

If you ever wonder about the significance and relevance of the Christian Research Journal all you have to do is look at what is happening in our culture. The other day in California (8/4/2010), a Federal Court Judge ruled against Proposition 8, the law that banned same sex marriage in California. The judge said that [...]

I was just reading USA Today this morning that Chelsea Clinton who is Methodist marries Marc Mezvinsky a Conservative Jew. The article points out that President Bill Clinton is a Baptist and Hillary Clinton a Methodist. The article is entitled, “Family and Faith in the Mix.” And as you read through the article the predominant [...]

I am just back from Orlando, Florida, which is one of my favorite trips of the year as I participate in Student Leadership University. I did a series on worldview issues as well as answered questions for students, and one of the questions asked was “If you can’t see God, how can you really know [...]

From a recent front page article in USA Today, we learn that evangelical Christians are leaving evangelical Christianity en masse, particularly children—70% of them leaving the Christian faith, no longer believing that the Bible is the infallible repository of redemptive revelation or that Jesus Christ is the only way to God.   Today, tolerance is [...]