Trump and Intemperance and Chaos
What the Left Wants The left tells many of you and me that Trump is intemperate and brings chaos (chose to use description of the left). I can say that — it’s true — but the left cannot. Why? The left has no objective standard for morality. This is also why the left is relativistic […]
Baptist History in Light of Available Historical Material
Historical Material This might seem really obvious, but the further back we go in history, the harder it is to prove something from available extra-scriptural historical material. Consider Adam and Eve. Understatement alert — we don’t have historical material from the time of Adam and Eve outside of the Bible. Nothing survived from them archaeologically. […]
What about the Influence of the Pope over United States Policy?
The United States and the Pope Sometimes, but not much, I deliver my opinion on what’s happening in government and politics. People should consider and apply what God says about everything. The recent Roman Catholic Pope, Leo XIV, came out against President Trump in recent days. If I can and should say and write about […]
The Concept or Idea of “God Moving” and Pragmatism in Churches
Part One God Is Moving? The phrase, “God is moving,” does not appear in the Bible. Instead, it is a theological abstraction that emerged from the intersection of vaguely scriptural, rhetorical imagery, 19th-century revivalism, and 20th-century Pentecostalism. The lineage of this language follows a distinct path. The expression, wording, or verbiage arose in the United […]
Drawing the Line on Masculinity: Getting a Male Role Back (Part Seven)
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six Three Primary Instruments for Male Role Return By three primary instruments will the male role return. It starts with individual, believing men out of personal conviction wanting the male role back for themselves. Second, parents, […]
Review of Children’s Book (Age 3-8) — Mrs. Legume’s Story: The Triumphs of Annie Ant
Day unto day utters speech, and how? God’s creation, growing plants, insects, and men and women working in fields all over the world. When Heather Ross makes her debut in the children’s picture book genre with her Mrs. Legume’s Story: The Triumph of Annie Ant, she enters a valuable space in the current landscape of […]
The Insidious Pragmatism of Churches in Towns in America
For my first twelve years, I grew up in and attended a church in a small rural town in Indiana. Our town was 2,600 and that was my world at the time. I didn’t know anything else. We very rarely got out of town and mainly to visit my grandparents at their farm near an […]
Should “Good Friday” Actually Be “Good Wednesday”?
The Rise of the Issue of Wednesday Rather Than Friday Death of Jesus I don’t separate over the timing of the crucifixion during “Holy Week.” My position for many years, after preaching through every one of the four Gospels verse by verse, is that the Lord Jesus Christ died on the cross by Roman crucifixion […]
The Perfect Preservation of Scripture Through True New Testament Churches: A Presuppositional and Historical Defense
From a presuppositional standpoint grounded in scripture’s own testimony, the perfect preservation of God’s words is not open to neutral debate. It is a divine promise that must shape how we understand all historical evidence. The Bible preservation issue starts with scriptural teaching on it. When you believe what God said, you come to perfect […]
Hyper-Dispensationalism: A Dangerous Perversion of Dispensationalism (Part Two)
Part One A Third Problem Interpretationally with Hyper-Dispensationalism Sermon on the Mount Hyper-dispensationalism brings extremes in discontinuity between the Old and the New Testament. Two dangers of the extreme discontinuity are, one, two salvation plans, a different one for the Old Testament than the one in the New Testament, and, two, antinomianism, a version of […]