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The View on the Decision for the Iraq War that Rings True with Me
I’m not a Bush apologist. I’m ambivalent about party loyalty. I didn’t vote for him in either 2000 or 2004. I voted American Independent/Constitution Party along with all the other less than 1% of Americans. Did I waste my vote? No. Presidents are elected by an electoral college. President Bush wasn’t going to win California […]
Former Reagan Economist Debunks the Idea that Drilling Would NOT Immediately Lower Fuel Prices
Obama and others (including my congressman, George Miller) make the inane argument that offshore drilling would take 20 to 30 years to impact oil prices. On the other hand, they say that costs skyrocket mainly to fuel “speculators” (actually investors, their politically charged word). They say about anything that they think will work to calm […]
The Supreme Court Ruling on the Second Amendment
I wasn’t happy about the very recent Supreme Court ruling that disallowed states to punish child rapists with the death penalty. I don’t see anything in the Constitution that would disallow that. The moderate Reagan appointed Justice Kennedy is the new swing vote on the Court and he said NO to killing child rapists. Too […]
The Basis of our Fellowship with Others
We’ve been considering the issue of fellowship and separation in some of my recent posts. This last Sunday evening in our church, I preached just a basic sermon on this issue, entitled “The Basis of our Fellowship with Others.” I recognize that in the sermon, some who read here will find some disagreement, as I […]
Multi-Cultural Gobblygook from Young “Fundamentalist”
Do you see this article (click for link) as representative of a Scriptural way of thinking? Jason Janz, recent former owner of online fundamentalist forum, SharperIron, wrote this as a guest commentary for the Denver Post. I guess that this fits one of the stated “core values” for the work that Janz has started in […]
The Elephant in the Room of the Separation Discussion Between Conservative Evangelicals and Fundamentalists
I think the conservative evangelicals and the fundamentalists are wrong on separation. I can understand a Southern Baptist like Mark Dever’s frustration with fundamentalists. I would feel the same way about it if I were him. They’re not consistent. They can’t even explain their inconsistency and yet they want him to be a separatist like […]
A Critique of the 2008 Fundamental Baptist Fellowship International, Resolution One pt. 1
I wandered over to SharperIron and the new administration there posted the first two resolutions of this year’s Fundamental Baptist Fellowship International. Reading both these resolutions makes me so glad not to be a part of the FBFI, oh so glad. Baptists historically are first characterized by having the Bible as their sole authority for […]
Dialogue about Separation: The 2008 Dever-Minnick 9Marks Interview part two
Since I wrote part one of this series on the Dever-Minnick interview, a mini-stir has erupted on the internet regarding an interpretation like mine of what Pastor Minnick said in his answers. The fundamentalist Baptist pastor on Vancouver Island in BC, Canada, Don Johnson, has written a few evaluations of this interview (here [before I […]
Dialogue about Separation: The 2008 Dever-Minnick 9Marks Interview part one
Not often can we eavesdrop on a conversation about separation between a well-known evangelical and fundamentalist. When Mark Dever interviews Mark Minnick as part of the 9Marks organization, we can, and I did. A Duke graduate and PhD from Cambridge, Mark Dever is senior pastor of the SBC Capital Hill Baptist Church in Washington, DC. […]
Romans 10:9-13: Are “Confess” and “Call” Post-Justification? part five
THE PRODIGAL SON: A CASE STUDY IN PRE-JUSTIFICATION CONFESS AND CALL In Luke 15, Jesus answers an accusation of the Pharisees with three stories—a story of the lost sheep, then the lost coin, and finally the lost son. The third of these three parables is the tale of two sons. I want to explore the […]
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