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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 […]
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 […]
Sing the Nicene Creed in Greek
Nicaeno-Constantinopolitan Creed, A. D. 325/381 (with Filioque) on the holy Trinity (sung to the tune of “Of the Father’s Heart Begotten”) Πιστεύομεν εἰς ἕνα Θεὸν Πατέρα παντοκράτορα, ποιητὴν οὐρανοῦ καὶ γῆς, ὁρατῶν τε πάντων καὶ ἀοράτων. Καὶ εἰς ἕνα κύριον Ιησοῦν Χριστόν, τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ θεοῦ τὸν μονογενῆ, τὸν ἐκ τοῦ Πατρὸς γεννηθέντα πρὸ […]
Tolkien and Lewis: Preference for Masculine Clothing in Rejection of Dandyism
Speaking of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, Humphrey Carpenter writes in J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977): [H]is [Tolkien’s] choice of clothes in middle age was also the sign of a dislike of dandyism. This he shared with C. S. Lewis. Neither could abide any manner of […]
2 Peter 2 and John 13: The Relationship Between Lust, Authority, Heresy, and Apostasy
Apostates deny the Lord who bought them (2 Peter 2:1). Their problem with Jesus is His sovereign lordship, that is, they don’t want Him in charge. Why? Their lust. They want what they want, and only what He wants when it’s what they want. On earth in real time, however, they don’t clash with Jesus. […]
Maybe the Worst Thing about Social Media
Wikipedia lists what social media is, and I looked, because getting that accurate might be important to someone with a strong support for social media, so I don’t mind representing it with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. I know it’s more, but those suit the discussion. Anymore, I don’t look at Facebook at all. In […]
The Deliberate, Convenient Ineptitude of Professing Christians at Applying the Lust Passages of Scripture, pt. 3
Part One Part Two Since Peter commands “abstain from fleshly lust” in 1 Peter 2:11, a believer can know what “fleshly lust” is. Someone can’t abstain from something he can’t ascertain. God doesn’t have a word that is indecipherable. God wants us to know it and do it. In the first two parts, we have […]
Andy Stanley Exposed and Crushed in Debate with Jeff Durbin
Anyone who reads here would know I don’t endorse or associate with someone such as Jeff Durbin, pastor and found of Apologia Church in Arizona, the Phoenix area. James White has joined him as pastor there. I would characterize Durbin as one of the new Calvinists, new not chronological as much as it is a […]
Israel in the Land of Canaan: Perfect Spot to be a Light to the Nations
The nation of Israel, in the land of Canaan, was God’s institution for His worship, for passing on the truth about the coming Messiah, and for preaching the gospel to the nations both in picture through the sacrificial system and through direct calls to the nations to repentance and faith in Christ in texts such […]
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