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 […]
The Biblical View of Church History: Succession or Perpetuity of True New Testament Churches (Part Two)
Part One Someone should believe true New Testament church perpetuity based upon biblical presuppositions. God promised He would keep or preserve both His Words and His church. Both of those relate to authority of God on earth and how He works in the world. Jesus rules through the church as the Head of it, but […]
Hyper-Dispensationalism: A Dangerous Perversion of Dispensationalism
Explaining Dispensationalism Versus Hyper-Dispensationalism Dispensationalism and Hyper-Dispensationalism Opponents of a grammatical-historical interpretation of scripture, the desert island approach, originalism, also called “premillennialism,” will, either purposefully or not, characterize hyper-dispensationalism as what is dispensationalism. I’m saying, they equate hyper-dispensationalism with dispensationalism. I have not found that most critics of dispensationalism even understand dispensationalism. If they do, […]
The Biblical View of Church History: Succession or Perpetuity of True New Testament Churches
The Gates of Hell Shall Not Prevail The Lord Jesus Christ had and still has all authority in heaven and in earth (Matthew 28:18), which means He possesses all authority. When Jesus says something, it’s as sure as it gets. It doesn’t matter how impossible it may seem. He is God. In a pivotal passage […]