Josh Benner

Category: Commentary

  • Contrary to past media reports, Hurricane Harvey shows most Americans aren’t so hateful, after all

    I see those videos, and no one cares who voted for whom. No one cares how rich or poor someone is. No one cares what color someone’s skin is, in fact you see people of different races coming together. There’s no discrimination, or hatred, or malice.

  • Society shows why we need the gospel as it vilifies Osteen

    In the court of social media, you make a mistake, and there is no forgiveness. It’s a shame culture, and no matter what a person does to make things right, it’s too little, too late. It’s just them doing good because “they got caught,” it’s just them doing good because there was a backlash, it’s…

  • Is Harvey Osteen’s Katrina?

    There have been numerous articles criticizing Houston mega-church pastor Joel Osteen, the pastor of Lakewood Church, the largest church in America for not doing enough in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, and for not letting people stay in the expansive church facility as a shelter. In terms of his prosperity gospel theology, there are many…

  • Love, justice, and the heavenly way

    God is perfect and righteous. And the only way for imperfect and unrighteous people to be with him was for Jesus to pay the price of sin. To absorb the wrath of God. And for some reason, the world is so twisted that that idea is offensive. That the Lord paid the penalty for our…

  • Why Jesus? Couldn’t there be another way?

    “Atonement” is a theological word that gets mentioned. In short, atonement refers to the work that Christ has done for those who have faith in Him to earn their salvation. I think people sometimes approach the gospel with skepticism. Jesus died for the sins of all who believe in him. I know I used to…