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Two Items of Interest
We have the audio sermons coming on our church website again. You can listen and download both now at the same location. Just click on the sermon to get the download function. However, there is an audio player you can listen to right at the site. Also I’ve invited Thomas Ross to be a guest […]
Should We Use “Good Things” to Attract Unbelievers for Evangelism?
Once again, I have places I visit with the interest of contemporary theological matters. I decided to comment here about a program a pastor considered for the stated cause of evangelism. Sometimes this is called “outreach.” I’ve noticed in evangelicalism and often in fundamentalism that almost anything under the heading of “outreach” becomes acceptable by […]
Immediate Pop Culture Relevancy
If there is anything that should not be relevant to pop culture, it is worship. Worship is all about God. And yet, in evangelicalism and in a growing way in fundamentalism, it has become important for the “worship” to be relevant to pop culture. I recently got a form letter from John MacArthur with some […]
BLAME FOR DEFICITS FOR DUMMIES
With this post, I hope to provide some assistance in sorting out the blame for the United States national debt, which is over 12 trillion dollars, amounting to over $113,000 per taxpayer and over $40,000 per citizen. First, President George W. Bush deserves blame for the national debt. When he took office, the national debt […]
Did Anabaptists Believe in Justification by Faith Alone?
Theologian Timothy George, the founding dean of Beeson Divinity School, wrote in his Theology of the Reformers in 1988 (p. 269): Menno, and Anabaptists generally, did not accept Luther’s forensic doctrine of justification by faith alone because they saw it as an impediment to the truth doctrine of a ‘lively’ faith which issues in holy […]
Answering the SharperIron Article on Preservation part five
What is superior, so-called external evidence or Scripture? None of us have seen Jesus. None of us have witnessed His return. Peter saw the Lord in His second coming glory, an “eyewitness of His majesty” on the Mt. of Transfiguration, and yet he said that he had “a more sure word of prophecy.” The predictions […]
Answering the SharperIron Article on Preservation part four
How do most false doctrines and then false religions start? They do when people try to fit the Bible into something that isn’t in the Bible. They attempt to conform the Bible to somebody’s life or problem. They scramble through Scripture looking for a way to explain something that they want. And then they find […]
Answering the SharperIron Article on Preservation part three
The Bible was complete in the first century A.D. All the doctrine we were ever to believe is found in Scripture. Any doctrine that was not in the Bible when it was finished would be an additional doctrine, a new teaching. It would also be something different than what God’s Word says. For instance, the […]
Answering the SharperIron Article on Preservation part two
Aaron Blumer in his article, Preservation: How and What?, finishes with this line: “Divine authority cannot be properly claimed for either position.” We came to know the two positions to which he refers as those he titled “discrete preservation” and “dispersed preservation.” Aaron concludes that there is no Divine authority, and by that he means […]
Answering the SharperIron Article on Preservation part one
Here is my answer to the Aaron Blumer article on SharperIron, entitled, Preservation: How and What? I say thanks to Aaron, who is also Pastor Blumer of Grace Baptist Church of Boyceville, Wisconsin. I respect him for going at this issue. And I mean no disrespect in saying that he misses it in a big […]
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