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The conscience is a built-in warning system that signals us when something we have done is wrong. The conscience is to our souls what pain sensors are to our bodies: it inflicts distress, in the form of guilt, whenever we violate what our hearts tell us is right.
John MacArthur
Pastor and teacher John MacArthur has entered into the presence of the Savior. His faith became sight. He faithfully endured until his race was run.
2 Timothy 4:1-8
“All death can do to the believer is deliver him to Jesus.”
— John MacArthur [1939- 2025]
"For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain."
— Philippians 1: 21 (ESV)
Legacies of Courage and Truth
The passing of Voddie Baucham, John MacArthur, and Charlie Kirk reminds us of the preciousness of a life lived boldly for Christ. Each of them, in their own unique way, stood unashamed of the Gospel, proclaiming God’s truth in a world desperate for hope. Voddie’s fearless defense of biblical truth, John’s unwavering commitment to sound doctrine, and Charlie's powerful debates despite their short time on earth all shine as powerful examples for us. Their lives call us to courage, obedience, and love for Jesus a reminder that our time is short, but our impact for the Kingdom can be eternal.
Rest in peace, faithful servants of God.
“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” – 2 Timothy 4:7
True Christianity is not about adding Jesus to my life. Instead, it is about devoting myself completely to Him–submitting wholly to His will and seeking to please Him above all else.
John MacArthur
Misogyny, racism and homophobia held a special place in the megachurch leader's heart.
Greg Owen at LGBTQ Nation:
John MacArthur, an influential evangelical pastor and Biblical originalist who espoused misogyny, racism, and homophobia over a sixty-year career behind the pulpit, died on Monday. He was 86. MacArthur was noted for his expository preaching, narrowly focused on the meaning and historical context of a particular piece of scripture. In thousands of sermons delivered from his 3000-seat megachurch in Sun Valley, California, MacArthur walked his congregation line by line through a single Bible passage to reinforce his view that “Authority and submission pervade the whole universe.”
Late in life, MacArthur became an outspoken culture warrior, denouncing critical race theory and an epidemic of “wokeness” in the church and American society. He was also an unrepentant supporter of President Donald Trump in the wake of COVID-era lockdowns. In August 2020, Mr. MacArthur told an interviewer for a podcast associated with Liberty University that Trump had called to thank him for “taking a stand” on church closures, The New York Times reports. The two men discussed why “Christians could not vote Democratic,” MacArthur said. “There’s no way that a Christian could affirm the slaughter of babies, homosexual activity, homosexual marriage, or any kind of gross immorality,” he said.
MacArthur clashed with other perceived enemies within Christianity, including the Roman Catholic Church, Baptists, and leaders espousing charismatic theology and the prosperity gospel, among them televangelists Robert Schuller and Joel Osteen. According to MacArthur, American evangelicals had led millions of people astray with the “damning false assurance” of “insidious easy-believism.” Christians who believed they were filled with the power of the Holy Spirit were teaching a counterfeit, “aberrant” Christianity, he said. He called them “harebrained people … prompted by Satan” and decried the charismatic movement’s widespread presence in Christian media.
[...] Grace grew rapidly under MacArthur’s leadership, and demand for his sermons exploded. By the end of the 1970s, more than 100,000 Christians nationwide were receiving MacArthur’s recorded sermons every week. The church later launched a separate ministry, Grace to You, to broadcast MacArthur’s messages on Christian radio.
In 1979, MacArthur taught on Titus 2 and the apostle Paul’s instructions that women “be busy at home” and “subject to their husbands.” Women, MacArthur maintained, should not work outside the home, and families should not require two incomes. He consequently removed all women from staff positions at Grace. “God has designed that men be given the position of authority, and women the position of submission. … A woman, whether she is married or single, must recognize the fact that in general, as a woman, she must have a spirit of submission to all men.” MacArthur was unstinting in his condemnation of gay people. When a society “turns to sexual immorality, homosexual immorality, and a reprobate mind, God gives them up,” he told far-right website Breitbart.
[...] No tenet in his preaching defined MacArthur’s worldview better, however, than the special place slavery held in his heart. “To throw out slavery as a concept simply because there have been abuses, I think, is to miss the point,” he said. “There can also be benefits. For many people, poor people, perhaps people who weren’t educated, perhaps people who had no other opportunity, working for a gentle, caring, loving master was the best of all possible worlds.” “Slavery is not objectionable if you have the right master,” MacArthur claimed. “It’s the perfect scenario.”
Earlier this week, far-right Calvinist evangelical pastor John MacArthur died at 86. MacArthur served as the head pastor of Grace Community Church and had a Grace To You ministry for his TV and radio shows.
He had a long history of anti-LGBTQ+, antifeminist, anti-abortion, and pro-slavery apologia bigotry.
