Who Is Semipelagian? Does Someone Need to Be a Calvinist Not to Be Semipelagian?
Church historians will say that a big part of the history of the church is a reaction to major heresies or at least strains of heresy that caused major problems in the church. The true church starts with the truth, and a heresy would be a deviation or detour off that path. A heresy would […]
Selective Relativism: Love Isn’t Acceptance or Toleration
In 2011 I attended incognito the Evangelical Theological Society meeting in San Francisco, and listened to Robert P. George in a session entitled, “Ethics in an Age of Relativism.” He described students in general in today’s colleges and universities as selectively relativistic. They become very absolute usually only when they judge a personal offense. They […]
Jessie Penn-Lewis: the Christ-Life and Quietism (part 5 of 22)
The content of this post is now available in the study of: 1.) Evan Roberts 2.) The Welsh Revival of 1904-1905 3.) Jessie Penn-Lewis on the faithsaves.net website. Please click on the people above to view the study. On the FaithSaves website the PDF files may be easiest to read. You are also encouraged […]
Why Didn’t Jesus or Paul Try to Stop Slavery?
Whenever I get to a slavery passage when teaching the Bible, I like to talk about slavery. I taught Ephesians this year in our school and I had to talk about it in Ephesians 6:5-9. I couldn’t just say, let’s talk about the employer-employee relationship, since it starts with slaves being obedient to their masters […]
Apostasy and the Meaning of Stephen’s Sermon in Acts 7 with Special Application to Millennial Apostates
In the first half of Acts 6 Stephen along with seven others was chosen to service the Grecian widows of the Jerusalem church. In the second half of Acts 6, the focus stays alone on Stephen with his courageous gospel disputations in the Hellenistic Jewish synagogues. He is charged with blasphemy by them, which then […]
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