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The Parable of the Prodigal Son Could Be Titled “Two Sons Who Both Hated Their Father”
Jesus tells three parables in Luke 15, all of which reveal the love of God the Father for the lost, unlike the religious leaders in Israel. He searches for them like a lost coin, first parable, lost sheep, second, and lost son, third. That states the correct view of God the Father and, therefore, also […]
What Does This Mean? “He That Feareth Is Not Made Perfect in Love” (1 John 4:18b)
Part One Today many millennial professing Christians have made themselves prey to superficial and self-help style preaching in postmodern evangelical churches. They are not set in these churches by God, but they’ve searched them for agreement with a world of their own imagination. The look or imagery is the pastor on a dark stage in […]
What Is Perfect Love and the Fear That It Casts Out in 1 John 4:18?
You can find a pretty horrific description of the pain and suffering of the coronavirus. You can read the mounting deaths and see the graph of the steep upward curve of infections. You can hear about the precipitous drop in employment and your retirement investment. You could be afraid because of such information. The Apostle […]
The Rejection of the Man of Sorrows
Philip Paul Bliss was a revivalist hymn writer in the mid 19th century, who in 1875 penned among others the well-known, “Hallelujah, What a Savior!”, the first line of which reads: Man of Sorrows! what a name for the Son of God, who came ruined sinners to reclaim. “Man of sorrows” originates from Isaiah 53:3 […]
Proportion: Not Celebrating Superficial, Trivial Things Like They Are High Value
When Jesus said, repeating Old Testament law (Ex 21:24), eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth (Matt 5:48), some might call that overdoing or extreme. They mock scripture. In fact, God was modifying the typical overreaction to personal wrong. If someone takes an eye, you don’t get to take a head. The response […]
Tests for the Practice of the Doctrine of Separation for Fundamentalism
Sam Horn, Executive Vice President for Enrollment and Ministerial Advancement, Dean of the School of Religion and the Seminary at Bob Jones University, moves to head John MacArthur’s Master’s Seminary. Steve Pettit, president of BJU, makes a positive public statement about it. He meets with John MacArthur and speaks well of it. Maybe Bob Jones has […]
Self Medicating and Managing “Pressures and Disappointments, Terrors, Fears of Whatever”
Who feels sorry for former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for what he did with Monica Lewinsky? Not feel sorry for her, but for him? I think all of you know he was actually a victim. Did you know that? In a recent interview, Bill Clinton was asked “why he took such a […]
The Blame Game Versus Real Repentance, Saul or David
When someone repents, he doesn’t blame his sin on someone else. I’m not saying that he can’t consider what he thinks helped move things the wrong way, but in the end, it was his fault. When someone stops sinning, which is part of repentance, he isn’t going to talk about stopping because it helped himself. […]
Love Wars
Audio 2014 Session at Word of Truth Conference, Love Versus Sentimentalism Earlier Posts One and Two “Childish” is an adjective. It’s not usually applied to children, but adults. What is it when an adult is childish? It’s when the adult is selfish. The adult is behaving in a selfish manner. He’s being self-centered, self-interested, or self-obsessed. On the […]
Jessie Penn-Lewis & Evan Roberts: Applications From Their Lives and Doctrines, III (part 22 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 […]
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