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WHAT IS TRUTH, INDEX BY SPECIFIC TOPIC (as of January 2019)

All Articles and Essays Written by Kent Brandenburg unless otherwise Noted
(J) for Jackhammer article [all of my articles from Aug 2006 to Feb 2011]
(T) for Thomas Ross article

BEAUTY, MUSIC, WORLDLINESS, AND WORSHIP

Beauty (Orthopathy)

An Irretrievable Irony

John Piper, Evangelicals and Fundamentalists, and Aesthetic, Cultural, Entertainment, and Attire Consistency

The Kaufman, Kafkaesque Performance “Art”/Hoax That Is Most of Professing Christianity Today

The Kaufman, Kafkaesque Performance “Art”/Hoax That Is Most of Professing Christianity Today, pt. 2

Mark These Words: Capitulation on the Diversity of Truth and Beauty Yields Apostasy, Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism

The Revision or Redefinition of Art, Related to False Worship

Music

Sing Koine Greek (T)

Music: Psalm Singing

What About Singing Psalms?

Music: Standard

Can or Should God Be Worshiped Merely by Musical Instruments without the Words or Lyrics?

Christian Rock Equals Andres Serrano

A Critique: Worship Wars by Robert Bakss

A Critique: Worship Wars by Robert Bakss, pt. 2

A Critique: Worship Wars by Robert Bakss, pt. 3

Does Your Music Check?

Does the Bible Have a Play Button?

The Foundation for Teaching Music to Children: Why Music? (J)

The First Worship War

Fundamentalism Associating with Syncretistic, Pagan Profanity

Hillsong: If Nothing Is Wrong, Then Nothing Is Wrong

Inerrancy Summit, Shepherds Conference, 2015: Keith and Kristyn Getty

Instrumental in Practicing (part one) (J)

The Irony of the Resolved Conference

Judging Music: You Can and Should, Here’s How

Judging Music (Part Two): Blurring the Distinction Between the Sacred and the Profane

The Man from Moscow Misses It On Music

The Musical Style We Offer to God: Can It Be Inherently Sinful? (J)

The Place to Start in Evaluating Music (J)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop?

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part two)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part three)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part four)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part five)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part six)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part seven)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part eight)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part nine)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part ten)

What the Worship War or Music Issue Really Is About (part eleven)

Rock and Rap Music Are Becoming a Non-Issue in Fundamentalism part 1

Rock and Rap Music Are Becoming a Non-Issue in Fundamentalism part 2

The Role of Discernment In Music (J)

Reverent Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs–and Handel’s Messiah (T)

Sacred Music

Six Positions on Church Music, pt. 1

Six Positions on Church Music, pt. 2

Toward Your Children Growing Up to Be Excellent Musicians (J)

Updated Music Resources at the “Theological Compositions” website

Was David Cloud Right in His Exposure and Reproof of West Coast Worship?

We Know What We’re Singing at Christmas, But Do They?

What About Special Music in the Church?

What Kind of Music Should Be Used in the Church

Who Is the Audience of the Singing and Playing in Church?

Why Would Rock Music Be Permissible But a Rock Concert Is Horrible?

Worldliness

The Capitulation of the Church Hastened Transgenderism

Complicit: The World’s Knowledge of and Hypocrisy In the Doctrine of Separation

Crossing Over: Proving the Resolved Trailer

A Defense of the Peter Masters’ Article with Criticism of its Bad Reviews

A Defense of the Peter Masters’ Article with Criticism of its Bad Reviews part two

The Destructive Instinct of Evangelicalism and Now Fundamentalism for and with Celebrity

Doctrine Is Not the Biggest Challenge to the Gospel in the Church Today

The Fear of “Externalism” In Preaching against Worldliness and for Personal Separation

Highway Work

Hillsong: If Nothing Is Wrong, Then Nothing Is Wrong

How Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism Have Invented and Continue to Reinvent A Socially Acceptable Impostor and Placebo Christianity

The Hypocrisy of Contemporary “Conservative” Evangelicalism pt. 2: Dovetailing with ‘Reacquiring a Christian Counterculture, pt. 2’ (J)

“I’m Gunna Use Worldly Lust to Lure Kids to Christian College”

John Piper, Evangelicals and Fundamentalists, and Aesthetic, Cultural, Entertainment, and Attire Consistency

Join Me in the Campaign against BABEL: Bigotry Against the Bible Executed Legally

Join the Campaign against BABEL: Bigotry Against the Bible Executed Legally

The Myth of ECx Internalism and Grace

The Myth of Only Internal Worldliness (J)

The Normalization of Aberrant Behavior Now in Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism

Nothing Is Weird Anymore

The Pot and the Kettle: MacArthur and Driscoll

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop?

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part two)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part three)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part four)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part five)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part six)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part seven)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part eight)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part nine)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part ten)

What the Worship War or Music Issue Really Is About (part eleven)

Russell Moore, Exhibit One in Ingratiation of Gospel Hipsterness

Schemes That Avoid Consequences Scripture Guarantees for True Followers of the Lord

Schemes That Avoid Consequences Scripture Guarantees for True Followers of the Lord, pt. 2

Schemes That Avoid Consequences Scripture Guarantees for True Followers of the Lord, pt. 3

Were We Wrong, Can Something Like This Change, or What?

Why Doesn’t Tim Keller Include the Younger Son?

Avalanche toward Gomorrah

Worship

The “Altar Call”: James 1:21 and the Circumstances of Worship

Can or Should God Be Worshiped Merely by Musical Instruments without the Words or Lyrics?

A Critique: Worship Wars by Robert Bakss

A Critique: Worship Wars by Robert Bakss, pt. 2

Evangelical Mumbo Jumbo: Ziplines and Worship Wars

The First Worship War

Images and Pictures of Jesus Christ Forbidden by Scripture

I Thought They Believed This?

A Modern Perversion of the Temple

The Necessity of Poetry in the Praise of God

On Paper or In Practice

“On Spiritual Worship,” Stephen Charnock (1628-1680)

Oxymorons (Joy in Worship)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop?

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part two)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part three)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part four)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part five)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part six)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part seven)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part eight)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part nine)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part ten)

What the Worship War or Music Issue Really Is About (part eleven)

Reverence and Solemnity: Essential Aspects of Biblical Worship, part 1 of 8 (T)

Reverence and Solemnity: Essential Aspects of Biblical Worship, part 2 of 8 (T)

Reverence and Solemnity: Essential Aspects of Biblical Worship, part 3 of 8 (T)

Reverence and Solemnity: Essential Aspects of Biblical Worship, part 4 of 8 (T)

Reverence and Solemnity: Essential Aspects of Biblical Worship, part 5 of 8 (T)

Reverence and Solemnity: Essential Aspects of Biblical Worship, part 6 of 8 (T)

Reverence and Solemnity: Essential Aspects of Biblical Worship, part 7 of 8 (T)

Reverence and Solemnity: Essential Aspects of Biblical Worship, part 8 of 8 (T)

The Revision or Redefinition of Art, Related to False Worship

Trinity Doctrine or Worship Music, Which Is More Important?

Was David Cloud Right in His Exposure and Reproof of West Coast Worship?

What Is Worship?

Who Can Say Who’s Wrong?

Why “Blended Worship”?

Worship and the Ark Narrative in 1 Chronicles, pt. 1

Worship and the Ark Narrative in 1 Chronicles, pt. 2

Worship and the Ark Narrative in 1 Chronicles, pt. 3

Worship and the Ark Narrative in 1 Chronicles, pt. 4

Worship and the Ark Narrative of 1 Chronicles, pt. 5

WHAT IS TRUTH, INDEX BY SPECIFIC TOPIC: CERTAINTY, CULTURE, EPISTEMOLOGY, MEANING, TRUTH, WORLDVIEW

Does Uncertainty Come from Certainty?

WHAT IS TRUTH, INDEX BY SPECIFIC TOPIC (as of January 2019)

All Articles and Essays Written by Kent Brandenburg unless otherwise Noted
(J) for Jackhammer article [all of my articles from Aug 2006 to Feb 2011]
(T) for Thomas Ross article

CERTAINTY, CULTURE, EPISTEMOLOGY, MEANING, TRUTH, WORLDVIEW

Certainty

Doubt, Lack of Willingness to Believe, and Atheism

Is Certainty Hubris?

The Path to Postmodern Subjectivity Comes Through Fear, Pragmatism, and, Yes, Covenant Theology

The Root of Uncertainty: Not Can’t, Not Don’t, But Won’t

The Self-Centered Hypocrisy of Nuance

The Strategy of Doubt

Uncertainty Now Considered Supreme Form of Christianity

Unattainable: A Certain Very Important Thing that God Promised Is Impossible with God to Evangelicals and Many Fundamentalists

Culture

The Absence of Shame in This Country

Ann Taylor, Wear the Pants Campaign: The World Gets It, Just Like It Gets Rock Music

Beauty, Worldly Lust, Effeminate and Truth in the Real World

Biblical Evangelism and an Approach to the Possible Success of Bill AB 2943 in California

Brett Kavanaugh: Alcohol and the Party Culture

Capitulation to Meaning Obliviousness: A Case of Berkeley and Oakland

Churches and their Popular Inclusion of Dress Information on their Websites

Cultural Issues Are Essential for Evangelicals, Just for Bad Reasons

Culture Decay—The Attack on Standards (J)

Culture Decay—But Who Cares? part one (J)

Culture Decay—But Who Cares? part two (J)

The Culture War: Sacred, Common, and Profane Culture (J)

Deconstructing the Destruction of Youth Culture (J)

Discerning the Required Differences between the Cultures of the Saved and the Unsaved (J)

Dishonoring A Game of Honor

The Duggars: Christianity and Hypocrisy

Embarrassment: Leviticus 18, NY Times, and Albert Mohler

Fundamental Stupidity

Have Pastors Been Lying about the Bible’s Application to Cultural Issues? That’s What Tim Jordan Says

Hillary Clinton, Legal Relativism, and the Church

How Much Diversity Should a Christian Allow and What Is His Responsibility to Error?

I Am Not a Cultural Fundamentalist (J)

Is It Gospel Centered to Ignore or Disparage Cultural Applications of Scripture?

Is It Scriptural To Stereotype Certain Cultures or Ethnicities?

John Piper, Evangelicals and Fundamentalists, and Aesthetic, Cultural, Entertainment, and Attire Consistency

The Kaufman, Kafkaesque Performance “Art”/Hoax That Is Most of Professing Christianity Today

The Kaufman, Kafkaesque Performance “Art”/Hoax That Is Most of Professing Christianity Today, pt. 2

My Take on the Support of Same Sex Marriage

Nothing Is Weird Anymore

The Now Irrelevance of Cultural Relativity

Perversion of Justice

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop?

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part two)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part three)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part four)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part five)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part six)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part seven)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part eight)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part nine)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part ten)

What the Worship War or Music Issue Really Is About (part eleven)

Race and Culture

Reacquiring a Christian Counterculture pt. 1 (J)

Reacquiring a Christian Counterculture pt. 2 (J)

“Redeeming the Culture” (J)

Repudiating the Fake Playboy Manhood, Partly of Trump

Salvation Is Cultural Separation (J)

Scriptural Realism in Application to Television (J)

Scrutinizing Scruton in the New York Times

Some Cultures Are Better Than Others

The Surrender of a Sanctified Culture (J)

Transcendence, Immanence, and Culture part one

Vulgarity, Meaning, Evangelicalism, Politics, and Hypocrisy

We’re Getting our Comeuppance for the Church’s Compromise in the Culture Wars pt. 1

We’re Getting our Comeuppance for the Church’s Compromise in the Culture Wars pt. 2

We’re Getting our Comeuppance for the Church’s Compromise in the Culture Wars pt. 3

We’re Getting our Comeuppance for the Church’s Compromise in the Culture Wars pt. 4

We’re Getting our Comeuppance for the Church’s Compromise in the Culture Wars pt. 5

Were We Wrong, Can Something Like This Change, or What?

What Is Diversity and Is It Right Now Welcome in the United States?

What Many Professional Athletes Really Think and Other Observations

What NT Churches can Do to Oppose Sodomite Marriage, Abortion, and Economic Theft (T)

What’s the Protest: NFL and NBA Athletes

Epistemology

The Erroneous Epistemology of Multiple Version Onlyism part one

The Erroneous Epistemology of Multiple Version Onlyism part two

The Erroneous Epistemology of Multiple Version Onlyism part three

The Erroneous Epistemology of Multiple Version Onlyism part four

The Erroneous Epistemology of Multiple Version Onlyism part five

The Erroneous Epistemology of Multiple Version Onlyism part six

Faith the Only Reliable Epistemology: It’s Got to Be Faith

Faith the Only Reliable Epistemology: It’s Got to Be Faith, pt. 2

Faith the Only Reliable Epistemology: It’s Got to Be Faith, pt. 3

Faith the Only Reliable Epistemology: It’s Got to Be Faith, pt. 4

Faith the Only Reliable Epistemology: It’s Got to Be Faith, pt. 5

Faith the Only Reliable Epistemology: It’s Got to Be Faith, pt. 6

Getting Past Your Lying Eyes

The Means By Which God Does Talk Today

The Relationship of Faith and Science or Faith and Thinking

Revelation Versus Discovery

We Really Did Know

Meaning

Capitulation to Meaning Obliviousness: A Case of Berkeley and Oakland

Johnny Manziel, Obscenity, and Evangelicalism

The Kaufman, Kafkaesque Performance “Art”/Hoax That Is Most of Professing Christianity Today

The Kaufman, Kafkaesque Performance “Art”/Hoax That Is Most of Professing Christianity Today, pt. 2

Vulgarity, Meaning, Evangelicalism, Politics, and Hypocrisy

Weekend Observations: Musical Meaning and Geert Wilders and Racism

Who Can Say Who’s Wrong?

Truth

Doubt, Lack of Willingness to Believe, and Atheism

The Eclecticism of Today’s Churches

The Evangelical Seduction of Two Truths

The Height of Postmodern or Two Truth Folly

How Bifurcation of Truth Became and Stays Acceptable

How Evangelicals and Fundamentalists Are Codifying Uncertainty and Doubt (J)

How Much Diversity Should a Christian Allow and What Is His Responsibility to Error?

The Job of Keeping

The Lie of Two Worlds

The Lie of Two Worlds, pt. 2

Mark These Words: Capitulation on the Diversity of Truth and Beauty Yields Apostasy, Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism

A Means of Protection

Open Mindedness: Relatively New In History — Why?

Point of 2 John: Truth the Boundary of Acceptance

The Pope, Stephen Colbert, Hillary’s Apology, and Truth

The Root of Uncertainty: Not Can’t, Not Don’t, But Won’t

The Strategy of Doubt

Uncertainty Now Considered Supreme Form of Christianity

The War Against Certainty

A World of Lies Starting with a Church of Lies

Worldview

Arctic Ice Sheets Melting, So Ocean Level Rising (Snicker)

Canaanite DNA and Fake News

Concocted Christianity

The Connection Between One’s World View and the Version Issue

Did New Testament Christianity Borrow from Mithraism? (T)

Ebola: Government Failure Stems from a Shift in Worldview

Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism: The Embrace of Neutrality (J)

Extremists

The Failure of the Naturalistic View of Origins: Not Observable or Repeatable

Global Warming

God-Given Rights: A Crucial Denial of a Foundation of Conservatism at National Review

Government, Family, Church: Why More?

The Height of Postmodern or Two Truth Folly

“He” vs. “they”: the 3rd Person Singular English Pronoun, Feminism, Patriarchy, and Biblical Christianity in Grammar (T)

How Much Diversity Should a Christian Allow and What Is His Responsibility to Error?

Johnny Manziel, Obscenity, and Evangelicalism

Jordan Peterson: The Lowering Standard of Acceptance

The Lie of Two Worlds

The Lie of Two Worlds, pt. 2

The Lure of the Left

Metaphysical Reality

Modernism Criticizes Post-Modernism: What Of It?

Origin of the Universe and Life: Random or Designed

The Pagan Worldview of Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism

Perfect Preservation of Scripture and Young Earth Creationism

Population Explosion

Question Authority

Scan of 100,000 Galaxies and No Alien Life: What’s That Supposed to Mean?

Should Naturalistic Explanations Overrule Scriptural Ones?

The Sister Presuppositions of Palaeography and Paleontology

Summit on Inerrancy: Not a Consistent, Therefore, Christian Worldview

The Virtue of Nationalism

Who’s Worse

The Worldview of Romney and Ryan and the 2012 Presidential Election

WHAT IS TRUTH, INDEX BY SPECIFIC TOPIC: SANCTIFICATION

The Absence of Shame in This Country

WHAT IS TRUTH, INDEX BY SPECIFIC TOPIC (as of January 2019)

All Articles and Essays Written by Kent Brandenburg unless otherwise Noted
(J) for Jackhammer article [all of my articles from Aug 2006 to Feb 2011]
(T) for Thomas Ross article

SANCTIFICATION

Sanctification

Applying Holiness, part one

The Bible Is the Red Pill

Bondage and Fear: Not the Result of a Higher or “Stricter” Standard

Books on Christian Sanctification for Baptist Separatists: My Recommendations (T)

The Carnal Christian

Christians Not Impressed with Christianity

Do Christians Like the Whole Bible?

Don’t Fix Stupid: Stupid Doesn’t Need Fixing

The Free Flesh (“Grace”) Movement

The Gospel Doesn’t Change What God Expects

How Biblical Change Looks When It Happens — And the Opposite

Is Being a Believer, Believing Scripture about Scripture?

Is Our Practice to Be Regulated by Scriptural Example? (J)

John Piper, Evangelicals and Fundamentalists, and Aesthetic, Cultural, Entertainment, and Attire Consistency

The Priority of What the Bible Doesn’t Say

The Resolutions of Jonathan Edwards (T)

Response to a Baptist preacher influenced by Zane Hodges’ view of 1 John, part 1 of 2 (T)

Response to a Baptist preacher influenced by Zane Hodges’ view of 1 John, part 2 of 2 (T)

Revival, believer’s baptism, and personal conversion vs. baptismal regeneration and traditional Reformed theology (T)

Should Christians Change?

Somebody Did Something Bad So I’ll Do Something Just as Bad or Worse

The Sovereignty People: Actual Trusting in God’s Sovereignty and Not Lipservice

Way of Approval

When I Would Do Good

Which Comes First, Theology or Lifestyle?

Who Loves Jesus?

You Are What You Allow

There Are Two Sides, You Have To Choose One, Not Straddle Both, And This Has To Do With Everything

Sanctification: Keswick/Revivalism (Perfectionism)

Andrew Murray, Mystical Quietist and Higher Life / Keswick Writer, part 1 of 7 (T)

Andrew Murray, Mystical Quietist and Higher Life / Keswick Writer, part 2 of 7 (T)

Andrew Murray, Mystical Quietist and Higher Life / Keswick Writer, part 3 of 7 (T)

Andrew Murray, Mystical Quietist and Higher Life / Keswick Writer, part 4 of 7 (T)

Andrew Murray, Mystical Quietist and Higher Life / Keswick Writer, part 5 of 7 (T)

Andrew Murray, Mystical Quietist and Higher Life / Keswick Writer, part 6 of 7 (T)

Andrew Murray, Mystical Quietist and Higher Life / Keswick Writer, part 7 of 7 (T)

Applications from Keswick Theology–an Analysis and Critique of So Great Salvation by Stephen Barabas, part 1 of 2 (T)

Applications from Keswick Theology–an Analysis and Critique of So Great Salvation by Stephen Barabas, part 2 of 2 (T)

The Carnal Christian

Does Christ live the Christian Life for the Christian? The Keswick View of Galatians 2:20 Examined, part 1 of 4 (T)

Galatians 2:20–the Keswick “Christ-life”? part 2 of 4 in Does Christ live the Christian Life for the Christian? The Keswick View of Galatians 2:20 Examined (T)

“I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me” Examined: part 3 of 4 in Does Christ live the Christian Life for the Christian? The Keswick View of Galatians 2:20 Examined (T)

The Keswick Christ-life-other alleged Scriptural support: part 4 of 4 in Does Christ live the Christian

Life for the Christian? The Keswick View of Galatians 2:20 Examined (T)

Do Keswick Critics Routinely Misrepresent Keswick Theology? Part 1 of 3 (T)

Do Keswick Critics Routinely Misrepresent Keswick Theology? Part 2 of 3 (T)

Do Keswick Critics Routinely Misrepresent Keswick Theology? Part 3 of 3 (T)

Evan Roberts & the Welsh Revival of 1904-1905: His conversion (?): Part 1 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts & the Welsh Revival of 1904-1905: His Education & “Preaching”: Part 2 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts & the Welsh Revival of 1904-1905: His “Preaching”: Part 3 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts & the Welsh Revival of 1904-1905: “Inspired Preaching” and Visions, Part 4 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts & the Welsh Revival of 1904-1905: Visions, Voices, and Hysteria, Part 5 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts & the Welsh Revival of 1904-1905: Supernatural Spirits & Sleep, Part 6 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts & the Welsh Revival of 1904-1905: A False Pentecost, Part 7 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts & the Welsh Revival of 1904-1905: Mrs. Jones of Islawrffordd, Part 8 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts & the Welsh Revival of 1904-1905: False Conversions, Part 9 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts & the Welsh Revival of 1904-1905: The Opposite of Jonathan Edwards, Part 10 of 22

Evan Roberts: 100,000 “saved” by his false gospel? Part 11 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts: Confusion on Assurance of Salvation, Part 12 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts: The Translation Message, Part 13 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts: Date-Setting Deception in the Translation Message, Part 14 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts: Deceived by Satan, Part 15 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts and the Rise of Pentecostalism in Britain, Part 16 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts & the Rise of American and Continental Pentecostalism I, Part 17 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts & the Rise of American and Continental Pentecostalism II, Part 18 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts & Ecumenical Feminism, Part 19 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts: Enemy of the Welsh Revival, Part 20 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts: Destroyer of Welsh Baptist Churches, Part 21 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts: Destroyer of Welsh Christianity, part 22 of 22 (T)

Frederick B. Meyer: “Baptist” Kewsick Advocate & Apostate False Teacher, part 1 of 4 (T)

Frederick B. Meyer: “Baptist” Kewsick Advocate & Apostate False Teacher, part 2 of 4 (T)

Frederick B. Meyer: “Baptist” Kewsick Advocate & Apostate False Teacher, part 3 of 4 (T)

Frederick B. Meyer: “Baptist” Kewsick Advocate & Apostate False Teacher, part 4 of 4 (T)

Frederick B. Meyer: Applications from his Keswick Apostasy, part 1 of 2

Frederick B. Meyer: Applications from his Keswick Apostasy, part 2 of 2

John 12:24-25: The Corn / Grain of Wheat Dying in the Ground: A Second Blessing? (T)

Keswick’s Biblical Strengths: where Keswick is Scriptural, in an Analysis and Critique of So Great )Salvation by Stephen Barabas, part 1 of 4 (T)

Keswick’s Biblical Strengths: where Keswick is Scriptural, in an Analysis and Critique of So Great Salvation by Stephen Barabas, part 2 of 4 (T

Keswick’s Biblical Strengths: where Keswick is Scriptural, in an Analysis and Critique of So Great Salvation by Stephen Barabas, part 3 of 4 (T)

Keswick’s Biblical Strengths: where Keswick is Scriptural, in an Analysis and Critique of So Great Salvation by Stephen Barabas, part 4 of 4 (T)

Keswick’s Errors: Ecumenicalism & Summary of Other Errors, in an Analysis and Critique of So Great Salvation by Stephen Barabas, part 1 of 17 (T)

Keswick’s Ecumenicalism #2, in Keswick’s Errors: an Analysis and Critique of So Great Salvation by Stephen Barabas, part 2 of 17 (T)

Keswick’s Quakerism, Rejection of Doctrine and Rejection of Studying Scripture: in Keswick’s Errors–an Analysis and Critique of So Great Salvation by Stephen Barabas, part 3 of 17 (T)

Keswick Testimonials Over Exegesis: in Keswick’s Errors–an Analysis and Critique of So Great Salvation by Stephen Barabas, part 4 of 17 (T)

Keswick’s Low View of Sin: in Keswick’s Errors–an Analysis and Critique of So Great Salvation by Stephen Barabas, part 5 of 17 (T)

Keswick’s Perfectionism: in Keswick’s Errors–an Analysis and Critique of So Great Salvation by Stephen Barabas, part 6 of 17 (T)

Keswick’s Corrupt Gospel: in Keswick’s Errors–an Analysis and Critique of So Great Salvation by Stephen Barabas, part 7 of 17 (T)

Keswick’s Confusion on the Holy Spirit: in Keswick’s Errors–an Analysis and Critique of So Great Salvation by Stephen Barabas, part 8 of 17 (T)

Keswick’s Bungled Sanctification: in Keswick’s Errors–an Analysis and Critique of So Great Salvation by Stephen Barabas, part 9 of 17 (T)

Keswick’s Misrepresentation of Orthodox Sanctification: in Keswick’s Errors–an Analysis and Critique of So Great Salvation by Stephen Barabas, part 10 of 17 (T)

Keswick’s Mere Counteraction Doctrine: in Keswick’s Errors–an Analysis and Critique of So Great Salvation by Stephen Barabas, part 11 of 17 (T)

Keswick’s Rejection of Effort: in Keswick’s Errors–an Analysis and Critique of So Great Salvation by Stephen Barabas, part 12 of 17 (T)

Keswick’s Crisis, Process, Gift Confusion: in Keswick’s Errors–an Analysis and Critique of So Great Salvation by Stephen Barabas, part 13 of 17 (T)

Keswick’s Incoherent Surrender Doctrine: in Keswick’s Errors–an Analysis and Critique of So Great Salvation by Stephen Barabas, part 14 of 17 (T)

Keswick’s Passivity: in Keswick’s Errors–an Analysis and Critique of So Great Salvation by Stephen Barabas, part 15 of 17 (T)

Keswick’s Unintelligibility: in Keswick’s Errors–an Analysis and Critique of So Great Salvation by Stephen Barabas, part 16 of 17 (T)

Keswick’s Unintelligibility #2 & Summary: in Keswick’s Errors–an Analysis and Critique of So Great Salvation by Stephen Barabas, part 17 of 17 (T)

Keswick Preaching and then Practical Perversion: the Unaffiliated

The Evil Junction of False Gospel, Distorted Sanctification, Success, Church Growth, Second Blessing, Keswick, and Man-Centered Methods

Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic, part 1 of 21 (T)

Hannah W. Smith and The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life, part 2 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic (T)

Hannah W. Smith, Quakerism, and Self-Examination rejected; part 3 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic (T)

Hannah W. Smith, Sign Gifts and Pentecostal Roots: part 4 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic (T)

Hannah W. Smith, Inner Light and Biblical Misinterpretation; part 5 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic (T)

Hannah W. Smith, Universalism, and an Unholy and Unhappy Life: part 6 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic

Hannah W. Smith, Spiritualism, Universalism, and the Rise of Keswick: part 7 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic

Hannah W. Smith’s Higher Life patrons, the Mount-Temples: part 8 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic

Hannah W. Smith and Keswick Precursor Conventions at Broadlands: part 9 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic

Haanah W. Smith, occult spiritualism, and the Keswick precursor Conventions at Broadlands: part 10 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic

Hannah W. Smith, the Continuation of Miraculous Gifts, and the Root of Keswick at the Broadlands Conventions: part 11 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic

Hannah W. Smith, erotic “Spirit baptism” and the occult: part 12 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic

Broadlands is Keswick: part 13 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic

Hannah W. Smith and Catholic Mystical Quietism: part 14 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic

Hannah W. Smith’s Higher Life Corruption of Conversion: part 15 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic

Hannah W. Smith Learns the Higher Life from a Sexual Predator and Fanatic: part 16 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic

Hannah and Robert Smith’s Preaching the Higher Life’s Erotic Baptism: part 17 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic

Hannah W. Smith’s Mentor in the Sexual Baptism, Dr. Foster; part 18 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic

Hannah W. Smith’s Spread of the Erotic Baptism of Post-Conversion Power: part 19 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic

Robert Pearsall Smith and the Keswick / Higher Life Preaching of Post-Conversion Sexual Baptism: part 20 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic

Applications from Hannah W. Smith’s Life: part 21 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic

Is It That You’re Really Missing Something? Forms of Second Blessing Theology

Is It That You’re Really Missing Something? Forms of Second Blessing Theology, pt. 2

Is It That You’re Really Missing Something? Forms of Second Blessing Theology, pt. 3

Is It That You’re Really Missing Something? Forms of Second Blessing Theology, pt. 4

Keswick and Pentecostal Hermeneutics: Experience Over Grammatical Exegesis

Keswick is Perfectionism: A. T. Pierson and W. H. Griffith Thomas agree. (T)

Keswick’s History: Keswick Theology’s Rise and Development in an Analysis and Critique of So Great Salvation by Stephen Barabas, part 1 of 5 (T)

Keswick’s History: Keswick Theology’s Rise and Development in an Analysis and Critique of So Great Salvation by Stephen Barabas, part 2 of 5 (T)

Keswick’s History: Keswick Theology’s Rise and Development in an Analysis and Critique of So Great Salvation by Stephen Barabas, part 3 of 5 (T)

Keswick’s History: Keswick Theology’s Rise and Development in an Analysis and Critique of So Great Salvation by Stephen Barabas, part 4 of 5 (T)

Keswick’s History: Keswick Theology’s Rise and Development in an Analysis and Critique of So Great Salvation by Stephen Barabas, part 5 of 5 (T)

Lutherans and Anglicans: True Gospel?

A Modern Revival That Wasn’t (J)

More Power

Planning a Revival

Praying for Revival or Not Praying for Revival

Reports of Revival in America

Revivalism and Fraudulent Faith (J)

Self-Loathing Revivalist Baptist Continuationists

Side Effects of Revivalism part one (J)

Side Effects of Revivalism part two (J)

Studies in Perfectionism by Benjamin B. Warfield Available for Free Dowload

The Sword of the Lord, Really The Scoop Shovel of Revivalism

Thoughts on “‘Keswick’ and the Reformed Doctrine of Sanctification” by J. I. Packer (T)

What Is Revival Anyway and Should We Be Looking For It?

Sanctifications: Means or Instrumentality

False Teachers Are Carnal Warriors Who Use Carnal Weapons

Sanctification: Motivation

How Did Jesus Motivate?

Sanctification: Reformation

Children Scribble Scrabbling: Interpretation of History and Reformed Theology

I’m Not Reformed: Why Not? Reformed What?

Sanctification: Sin

Embracing Unfairness

The Fear of “Externalism” In Preaching against Worldliness and for Personal Separation

The Normalization of Aberrant Behavior Now in Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism

The Self-Centered Hypocrisy of Nuance

Where Sin Gets Defeated

Sanctification: Time

This Is the Time On Which My Endless Life Dependeth

When Would Ye Receive Your Good Things?

WHAT IS TRUTH, INDEX BY SPECIFIC TOPIC: SALVATION

“Abide in Me,” John 15:1-8: Saved or Unsaved, Not Christian or Better Christian

WHAT IS TRUTH, INDEX BY SPECIFIC TOPIC (as of January 2019)

All Articles and Essays Written by Kent Brandenburg unless otherwise Noted
(J) for Jackhammer article [all of my articles from Aug 2006 to Feb 2011]
(T) for Thomas Ross article

SALVATION

Salvation (the Gospel)

Abiding in Christ: What Does it Mean? part 1 of 9, Word Study (T)

Abiding in Christ: What Does it Mean? part 2 of 9, Word Study (T)

Abiding in Christ: What Does it Mean? part 3 of 9, Word Study Concluded (T)

Abiding in Christ: What Does it Mean? part 4 of 9, the Lexica (T)

Abiding in Christ: What Does it Mean? part 5 of 9, Old Testament Background to the Vine Image of John 15 (T)

Abiding in Christ: What Does it Mean? part 6 of 9: Exposition of John 15:1-3 (T)

Abiding in Christ: What Does it Mean? part 7 of 9: Exposition of John 15:4-5 (T)

Abiding in Christ: What Does it Mean? part 8 of 9: Exposition of John 15:6-11 (T)

Abiding in Christ: What Does it Mean? part 9 of 9: Miscellaneous Notes & Conclusion (T)

Acts 2:38–Baptism Essential to Salvation? (T)

Acts 11:26: All Christians are Disciples (T)

Acts 22:16–Baptism Essential for Salvation? (T)

Analysis: Online Video Plan of Salvation – Is It the Gospel?

Postscript to Analysis of Skelly Gospel Video

Are All Believers Disciples? part 1 (T)

Are All Believers Disciples? part 2 (T)

Are All Believers Disciples? part 3 (T)

Ask Jesus into your Heart? 14 Reasons not to, part 1 of 3 (T)

Ask Jesus into your Heart? 14 Reasons not to, part 2 of 3 (T)

Ask Jesus into your Heart? 14 Reasons not to, part 3 of 3 (T)

Christians Not Impressed with Christianity

Church Autonomy, Pastoral Authority, Closed Communion, and the Gospel: The Means Becoming the End

The Covenant of Redemption Should Be a Problem

Damning Danger in Asking Christ into Your Heart: The Testimony of Baptist Pastor Ovid Need, part 1 of 4 (T)

Damning Danger in Asking Christ into Your Heart: The Testimony of Baptist Pastor Ovid Need, part 2 of 4 (T)

Damning Danger in Asking Christ into Your Heart: The Testimony of Baptist Pastor Ovid Need, part 3 of 4 (T)

Damning Danger in Asking Christ into Your Heart: The Testimony of Baptist Pastor Ovid Need, part 4 of 4 (T)

Enablers of a False Gospel and Bad Church

Everyone Justified by Faith Has the Unction and the Anointing

Free Grace and Lordship Salvation: Rival Hermeneutics for a Biblical Soteriology

Gospel-Centeredness and Moralism

The Gospel and Simplicity

The Gospel Doesn’t Change What God Expects

The Gospel, Stupid (J)

Gospel Troubles

The History of the Doctrine of Justification (J)

How the Gospel Gets Changed (J)

Is It Gospel Centered to Ignore or Disparage Cultural Applications of Scripture?

Jesus Is Lord (J)

Judging People to Be Saved

A Leaking Gospel

Let’s Think about Romans 6:23 in Its Context for a “Gospel Presentation”

Lordship Salvation for “Dummies”

Lutherans and Anglicans: True Gospel?

The Most Important Problem: Part 1 of 4 in The Most Important Message Gospel series of Gospel videos (T)

Omissions From the Gospel, Important to Consider

Omissions From the Gospel, Important to Consider, pt. 2

Omissions From the Gospel, Important to Consider, pt. 3

Omissions From the Gospel, Important to Consider, pt. 4

A Post Among a Series of Posts by John MacArthur about Social Justice and the Gospel

Preaching the Gospel to New Evangelicals?

The Problem among Independent Baptists with the Gospel

The Problem among Independent Baptists with the Gospel, pt. 2

Luke 18:18-30: The Rich Young Ruler: Tell-Tale Passage for Soteriology, Number One

Luke 18:18-30: The Rich Young Ruler: Tell-Tale Passage for Soteriology, Number Two

Luke 18:18-30: The Rich Young Ruler: Tell-Tale Passage for Soteriology, Number Three

Salvation Is Cultural Separation (J)

“Saviour Of All Men”: What Does It Mean?

Separation with the Gospel as an Essential: Imagination of and about Jesus Dipping Below a Saving Quality

Show Time: Making the Gospel About Us (J)

So Do You Think He Was Saved? Saul, Wesley, Luther, Etc.

A Statement Carefully Crafted to Leave Out the Parts of the Gospel Most Disagreeable to Sinners

A Statement Carefully Crafted to Leave Out the Parts of the Gospel Most Disagreeable to Sinners, pt. 2

Unbiblical Salvation Language, pt. 1

What Does It Mean to Believe in Jesus Christ? (J)

What Has Happened that the Gospel Has Been So Messed Up by Professing Christians?

What Has Happened that the Gospel Has Been So Messed Up by Professing Christians? pt. 2

Winning through Losing (J)

There Are Two Sides, You Have To Choose One, Not Straddle Both, And This Has To Do With Everything

Salvation: Atonement

Atonement (Part One): An Old Testament Term

Atonement (Part Two): Less Excellent Than Christ

Atonement (Part Three): Less Excellent Than Christ (continued)

“Blood. . . Part and Parcel of the Programming We Receive as Christians”

Limited Atonement or Unlimited Atonement? Calvin Was Right About the Extent Of the Atonement – everyone ought to agree with him on it (T)

Salvation: Lordship and Repentance

Corrupting Gospel Repentance: the FBFI and Minci’s Response (T)

Does 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10 Describe Conversion or Some Post Conversion Sanctification Experience?

Does Saving Faith Involve Surrender to Christ as Lord? (T)

Does Shelton Smith and the Sword of the Lord Teach a True Gospel? part one

Does Shelton Smith and the Sword of the Lord Teach a True Gospel? part two

Does Shelton Smith and the Sword of the Lord Teach a True Gospel? part three

The Evil Junction of False Gospel, Distorted Sanctification, Success, Church Growth, Second Blessing, Keswick, and Man-Centered Methods

The Evil of Anti-Lordship Teaching

Except Ye “Repent,” More Sword Aberration

Explaining Repentance to an Ignorant Lost Person

The Historic Baptist Doctrine of Receiving Christ as both Savior and Lord and the So-Called

Liberty and Lordship

Lordship Salvation, or the So-Called Free Grace Gospel (T)

Mutually Inclusive: Lordship Salvation

One Particular Corruption of Repentance to Accommodate a Methodology, Success, and Numbers

Preaching Repentance

Questions on Repentance from a Prominent Preacher (T)

Repentance and the Baptist Church Constitution (T)

Repent of Original Sin? Yes! (T)

Repentance Debate Challenge (T)

Repentance Defended Against Antinomian Heresy: A Brief Defense of the Indubitable Biblical Fact that Repentance is a Change of Mind that Always Results in a Change of Action, part 1 (T)

Repentance Defended Against Antinomian Heresy: A Brief Defense of the Indubitable Biblical Fact that Repentance is a Change of Mind that Always Results in a Change of Action, part 2 (T)

Repentance Defended Against Antinomian Heresy: A Brief Defense of the Indubitable Biblical Fact that Repentance is a Change of Mind that Always Results in a Change of Action, part 3 (T)

Repentance Defended Against Antinomian Heresy: A Brief Defense of the Indubitable Biblical Fact that Repentance is a Change of Mind that Always Results in a Change of Action, part 4 (T)

Repentance Isn’t This Nor Is It This Complicated — Please

Sad Strawman: A Critique of David Cloud’s “Repentance and Lordship Salvation Revisited”

A Statement Carefully Crafted to Leave Out the Parts of the Gospel Most Disagreeable to Sinners

A Statement Carefully Crafted to Leave Out the Parts of the Gospel Most Disagreeable to Sinners, pt. 2

Steven Anderson Is a False Teacher Who Believes and Preaches a False Gospel

What Gospel Did Jesus Say to Preach as Part of the Great Commission?

Salvation: Old Testament

How Were People Saved Before Jesus Died?

Salvation: Saving Faith

Does Saving Faith Involve Surrender to Christ as Lord? (T)

Faith Is Not A Work

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 1 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 2 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 3 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 4 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 5 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 6 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 7 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 8 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 9 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 10 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 11 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 12 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 13 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 14 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 15 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 16 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 17 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 18 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 19 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 20 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 21 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 22 (T)

“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 23 (T)

Applications of the Truth that the Just Shall Live by Faith, part 1–“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 24 (T)

Applications of the Truth that the Just Shall Live by Faith, part 3–“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 25 (T)

Applications of the Truth that the Just Shall Live by Faith, part 4–“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 27 (T)

They Say They Are Believers, But They Don’t Get It

WHAT IS TRUTH, INDEX BY SPECIFIC TOPIC: SEPARATION OR UNITY

Applying Biblical Texts to Ecclesiastical Separation?

WHAT IS TRUTH, INDEX BY SPECIFIC TOPIC (as of January 2019)

All Articles and Essays Written by Kent Brandenburg unless otherwise Noted
(J) for Jackhammer article [all of my articles from Aug 2006 to Feb 2011]
(T) for Thomas Ross article

SEPARATION OR UNITY

Separation Or Unity

Association

The Attraction and the Lie of Not Separating

A Circle and a Graph: Evangelical Excuses for Disobedience to God

A Confused Stand

Bibliology and Separation

Bibliology and Separation part two

Bibliology and Separation part three

Can Someone Be Consistent in the Matter of Separation? (J)

A Case Study for Biblical Separation: James White and Michael Brown, According to Phil Johnson

A Catholicization of Evangelical Christianity

Certain Unscriptural Positions of Bibliology Worth Separating Over: Considering Mark Ward’s Call to Separation at FBFI

Complicit: The World’s Knowledge of and Hypocrisy In the Doctrine of Separation

Conservative Evangelicals Explore the Doctrine of Separation, part one

Conservative Evangelicals Explore the Doctrine of Separation, part two

Conservative Evangelicals Explore the Doctrine of Separation, part three

Darkness Hating Light Practices a Kind of Separation Different Than What God Requires

The Dean Burgon Society and King James Bible Research Council: Would I Join Them?

Destructive Fellowship in Fundamentalism

Dialogue about Separation: The 2008 Dever-Minnick 9Marks Interview part one

Dialogue about Separation: The 2008 Dever-Minnick 9Marks Interview part two

Dumbing Unity Down and Excluding God

Essential and Non-Essential Critique

Everybody Separates: It’s Just Why and How

Extra: An Evangelical Uses the Term “Separatist”

Faithful as a Pastor according to the Pastoral Epistles — Separation?

The “Fundamentalist Practice of Separation”?

God’s Kind of Separation over the Gospel (J)

Going Too Far with Separation?

The Gospel and Separation: What’s Worth Separating Over?

The Gospel and Separation: What’s Worth Separating Over? pt. 2

How Big Is Disobedience to 2 Corinthians 6:14?

Is It Impossible to Be Consistent in the Practice of the Separation?

The King James Version and the Doctrine of Separation

Let’s Hear It for an Evangelical Proposal of Separation!

MacArthur and Piper and Driscoll: Case Study on God Wanting Ecclesiastical Separation and That It Should Matter

The Most Divisive of All Independent Baptists: Let’s Think about It

Not Believing God Is and Should Be A Problem in Denying Perfect Preservation of Scripture

One Stop Shop for Recent Dabblings on Separation Among Evangelicals, and then a Fundamentalist

Opposing Indifferentism: Why Now?

Pastors and Churches That Accept Our Former Members

Point of 2 John: Truth the Boundary of Acceptance

Real Unity, Biblical Unity, Which Is Required, Versus Fake Unity, The Overwhelmingly Most Common Today

Real Unity, Biblical Unity, Which Is Required, Versus Fake Unity, The Overwhelmingly Most Common Today — pt. 2

Real Unity, Biblical Unity, Which Is Required, Versus Fake Unity, The Overwhelmingly Most Common Today — pt. 3

Reductio Ad Absurdum: Conservative Evangelicalism Meets the Doctrine of Separation

Reductio Ad Absurdum: Conservative Evangelicalism Meets the Doctrine of Separation, part two

Reductio Ad Absurdum: Conservative Evangelicalism Meets the Doctrine of Separation, part three

R.I.P. Separation in Fundamentalism

2 John 7-11: Case Study or Comprehensive?

Seeking Unity with James White

Separation 101: Associations and Separation from Those Who Call Themselves Brothers, part one

Separation 101: Associations and Separation from Those Who Call Themselves Brothers, part two

Separation 101: Associations and Separation from Those Who Call Themselves Brothers, part three

Separation 101: Associations and Separation from Those Who Call Themselves Brothers, part four

Separation and Patience

Separation and Sectarianism, An Article Review

Separation Confusion in So-Called Classic , Historical, or Traditional Fundamentalism

Separation Is An Indispensable Message You Should Pick Up from the Whole Bible, But Let’s Start with Genesis

Separation with the Gospel as an Essential: Imagination of and about Jesus Dipping Below a Saving Quality

Tabletalk, R. C. Sproul, and the Evangelical Foray into Ecclesiastical Separation

Taking the Minnick Article on Separation for a Test

The Scriptural Problem of Kevin Bauder’s Definition of “Fellowship”

Is This Statement Scriptural? “Strictly speaking, biblical “separation” is refusing to extend Christian fellowship to someone who denies the gospel.”

Thoughts and Questions about the Doctrine of Separation

Ties that Bind….Really Bind

Unity Beyond the Church

Who Causes Division? The Claim for the High Ground of Unity

Why I’m Not Participating With The IBFI (Bobby Mitchell) (J)

You Are What You Allow

Separation: Primary or Secondary Doctrine (Ranking Doctrines, Adiaphora)

The Apostle Paul and His View of Unity and “Non-Essentials”

The Artificially Manufactured ‘Majoring on Minors’ Controversy

The Artifically Manufactured “Major-Minor” Controversy pt. 2

The Artifically Manufactured “Major-Minor” Controversy pt. 3

The Damage of the Non-Essential Doctrine to the Gospel

Deconstructing Fugate and Schaap and a Conclusion about Ranking Doctrines (J)

The Delusion of the Fundamental of the Faith: Relating It To Rocky Top at Bob Jones University

En Protois and 1 Corinthians 15:3: First of All, First In Order

The “Essential Doctrine” Doctrine Is Just Being Assumed with No Proof (J)

Essential Truths, Secondary Issues

Evangelicals Move the Goalposts on Adiaphora

1 Corinthians 15:3: En Protois, First in Order or First in Importance, and Ranking Doctrines

Gospel Minimization: Is Paul Saying in 1 Corinthians 15 that the Gospel Is Merely the Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Christ?

Hard to Be Understood

Incremental Conservatism?

Is Sanctification a Secondary Doctrine?

Is the Doctrine of Major Doctrines a Major Doctrine? The Rapture as a Case Study

Majoring on the Minors

A Majorly Minor Break

“Negotiable Matters of Indifference”

Phil Johnson: Tertiary Doctrines Dovetailing with the King James Version Issue

The Point and Presumptuousness of Ranking Doctrines (J)

“Primary” and “Secondary,” Biblical Separation, and Application of Scripture: Johnson, MacArthur, Driscoll, and Murray pt. 1

“Primary” and “Secondary,” Biblical Separation, and Application of Scripture: Johnson, MacArthur, Driscoll, and Murray pt. 2

Ranking Doctrines (J)

Secondary, Tertiary, or Essential?

Secondary, Tertiary, or Essential? Part Two

Secondary, Tertiary, or Essential? Part Three

Secondary, Tertiary, or Essential? Part Four

Secondary, Tertiary, or Essential? Part Five

Separation and Ranking Doctrines

Separation with the Gospel as an Essential: Imagination of and about Jesus Dipping Below a Saving Quality

What Did Charles Spurgeon and H. A. Ironside Say About the Tertiary or Primary Doctrine View?

When An Exegetical Fallacy Becomes a Translation and then a Philosophy

WHAT IS TRUTH, INDEX BY SPECIFIC TOPIC: SCRIPTURE

The Bible and Circular Reasoning

WHAT IS TRUTH, INDEX BY SPECIFIC TOPIC (as of January 2019)

All Articles and Essays Written by Kent Brandenburg unless otherwise Noted
(J) for Jackhammer article [all of my articles from Aug 2006 to Feb 2011]
(T) for Thomas Ross article

SCRIPTURE

Scripture

Brainwashed Bibliology

A Case Study in the Practical Consequences of Evangelical Bibliology

Certain Unscriptural Positions of Bibliology Worth Separating Over: Considering Mark Ward’s Call to Separation at FBFI

Comparative: Amending the U. S. Constitution and Amending the Bible

A Confession of Faith on the Inspiration and Preservation of Scripture, part 1

A Confession of Faith on the Inspiration and Preservation of Scripture, part 2

A Confession of Faith on the Inspiration and Preservation of Scripture, part 3
Daniel Wallace and Bart Ehrman: We Don’t Really Know For Sure

Ehrman-White Debate

Evidence that the Bible and Christianity Are Not Scientific

First Impressions of the Ehrman-White Debate

God does NOT speak through the Bible (T)

How Long Were the Original Manuscripts Around? Considerations on the NT Autographa and Early NT Apographa from Scripture and Patristic Writers, part 1 (T)

How Long Were the Original Manuscripts Around? Considerations on the NT Autographa and Early NT Apographa from Scripture and Patristic Writers, part 2 (T)

How Long Were the Original Manuscripts Around? Considerations on the NT Autographa and Early NT Apographa from Scripture and Patristic Writers, part 3 (T)

How Long Were the Original Manuscripts Around? Considerations on the NT Autographa and Early NT Apographa from Scripture and Patristic Writers, part 4 (T)

How Long Were the Original Manuscripts Around? Considerations on the NT Autographa and Early NT Apographa from Scripture and Patristic Writers, part 5 (T)

How Long Were the Original Manuscripts Around? Considerations on the NT Autographa and Early NT Apographa from Scripture and Patristic Writers, part 6 (T)

How Long Were the Original Manuscripts Around? Considerations on the NT Autographa and Early NT Apographa from Scripture and Patristic Writers, part 7 (T)

Is Being a Believer, Believing Scripture about Scripture?

The Jackhammer (J)

Liar, Liar….James White and AOM

The Means By Which God Does Talk Today

An Obvious Bibliological Contradiction: Canon — Theological, Text — “Scientific”

Proof that the Bible is the Word of God from the Book of Daniel (T)

The Septuagint (LXX) Chronology in Genesis 5 and 11: Corrupt and Indefensible

The Swinging Scripturalists (J)

Theistic or Divine Correction to the Man-Centered Trajectory of Modern Bibliology

Thus Probably or Possibly Saith the Lord: The Ehrman-Wallace Debate

Scripture: Application

Are Passages on Old Testament Strangers A Legitimate Basis for Taking Refugees into the Country?

Convenient Use of Scripture

David’s Killer Census as a Paradigm for Applying Scripture

The Destructive Charge of “Legalism” Pinned on Rightful Application of Scripture pt. 1 (J)

The Destructive Charge of “Legalism” Pinned on Rightful Application of Scripture pt. 2 (J)

Exploring Unacceptable Degrees of Normativeness of the Book of Acts

How Biblical Change Looks When It Happens — And the Opposite

Is It Gospel Centered to Ignore or Disparage Cultural Applications of Scripture?

A Paradigm for Taking a Biblical Position that Makes Sense of Everything God Says In the Bible

The Modern Fear or At Least Repulsion of Applying Scripture

Scripture: Authority

The Bible and Circular Reasoning

The Bible As Scientific Challenge to Climate Change Speculation

The Earliest Portions of the Hebrew Bible: the Ketef Hinnom Silver Scrolls (T)

How Is the Bible the Sole Authority for Faith and Practice?

How Is the Bible the Sole Authority for Faith and Practice? pt. 2

A Primer on the Two Book Approach: Rejection of Sola Scriptura

Should Naturalistic Explanations Overrule Scriptural Ones?

The Two Book Approach and English Separatism

Scripture: Canonicity

Canonicity: How Does It Work?

Hearing Voices: Extra-Canonical Fallacies (Including James White)

Is the Canon Really The Most Major Issue in Dealing with Roman Catholics?

The Gospel of Judas

Testimonium Spiritus Sancti Internum

Scripture: Inerrancy

Bock and Wallace, Reliability of the New Testament

The Idea of the Inerrancy of Scripture

Obvious Disconnects for Evangelicals and Inerrancy

A SAFE PLACE: Biblical Inerrancy and Perfect Preservation

The Septuagint (LXX) Chronology in Genesis 5 and 11: Corrupt and Indefensible

Summit on Inerrancy: Not a Consistent, Therefore, Christian Worldview

Those Who Deny Warfieldian Inerrancy

The Truth about a Few Key Questions on the History of the Doctrine of Inerrancy

Scripture: Inspiration

Are Accurate Copies and Translations of Scripture-Such as the KJV-Inspired? A Study of 2 Timothy 3:16, part 1

Are Accurate Copies and Translations of Scripture-Such as the KJV-Inspired? A Study of 2 Timothy 3:16, part 2

Are Accurate Copies and Translations of Scripture-Such as the KJV-Inspired? A Study of 2 Timothy 3:16, part 3

Are Accurate Copies and Translations of Scripture-Such as the KJV-Inspired? A Study of 2 Timothy 3:16, part 4

Inspiration: How and What?

Scripture: Interpretation

Case Study in the Rise of a False Doctrine or Misinterpretation of Scripture: Preservation Passages

The Historic Christian Response of Presuppositionalism to Biblical Criticism: Classic Harmonization

How to Come to Positions on Issues (link to sermon by Kent Brandenburg)

The Interpretation of Trump’s Travel Ban and the Interpretation of Scripture

Keswick and Pentecostal Hermeneutics: Experience Over Grammatical Exegesis

The Malleability of Old Testament Narratives

A Paradigm for Taking a Biblical Position that Makes Sense of Everything God Says In the Bible

Reconstruction or Liberation

Was the Church Wrong about the Meaning of Verbs in Scripture?

Woke: Evangelical Rift Caused or Influenced by Seismic False System of Interpretation of Scripture

You Might Need to Study More! (Bobby Mitchell)

Scripture: Perspecuity

Big and Ambiguous

Hard to Be Understood

Perspecuity and an Emerging Corollary

The Self-Centered Hypocrisy of Nuance

Unclear

Scripture: Preservation

A Sniff Test on the Preservation of Scripture

The Actual History of King James Onlyism

Answering Aaron Again on the Doctrine of Preservation of Scripture

Answering Aaron on the Doctrine of Preservation—Part Two

Aaron on TSKT, part three —- Introduction

Aaron on TSKT, part four

Answering the SharperIron Article on Preservation part one

Answering the SharperIron Article on Preservation part two

Answering the SharperIron Article on Preservation part three

Answering the SharperIron Article on Preservation part four

Answering the SharperIron Article on Preservation part five

Answering the TR (Textus Receptus), Perfect Preservation of Scripture Question. One More Time.

Answers to Questions about the Doctrine of Preservation of Scripture

Any Fault in Fideism

Assessing Comments on Thou Shalt Keep Them

Assessing Comments on Thou Shalt Keep Them, part two

Baptist Confessions and the Preservation of Scripture: A Video

Can We Separate a Miracle of Inspiration from a Miracle of Preservation?

Case Study in the Rise of a False Doctrine or Misinterpretation of Scripture: Preservation Passages

Certainty or Uncertainty: Perfect Preservation or Multiple Versions (J)

Churches: The “How” of Perfect Preservation (J)

Commentary on the Steven Anderson–James White Interview, part one

Commentary on the Steven Anderson–James White Interview, part two

Criticizing Professor Wallace (Part One)

Criticizing Professor Wallace (Part Two)

Criticizing Professor Wallace (Part Three)

Criticizing Professor Wallace (Part Four)

Debate on the Preservation of Scripture

The Doctrine of the Preservation of Scripture and the Idea of Acceptable Multiple Versions of Scripture

Does DBTS Theological Journal Present a Biblical Theology of Preservation?

Eclectic, Critical Text, and MVO on Truth Serum (J)

Editions of the TR Argument and Excellent Preservation Versus Perfect Preservation

The Embarrassing History of the Doctrine of Preservation for the Multiple Versionists

The Erroneous Epistemology of Multiple Version Onlyism part one

The Erroneous Epistemology of Multiple Version Onlyism part two

The Erroneous Epistemology of Multiple Version Onlyism part three

The Erroneous Epistemology of Multiple Version Onlyism part four

The Erroneous Epistemology of Multiple Version Onlyism part five

The Erroneous Epistemology of Multiple Version Onlyism part six

The Devil in the Details? Matthew 5:18, 19 and the Authority of Scripture

The Devil in the Details? Matthew 5:18, 19 and the Authority of Scripture, part two

The Dishonesty over the Version or Preservation of Scripture Issue

Explaining the Role of the Holy Spirit in the Perfect Preservation Doctrine or Sacred Text Position So that Anyone Really, Really Will Understand It

Fideistic Fakes

French Protestants and the Waldenses: The Church and the Text of the New Testament, pt. 1

French Protestants and the Waldenses: The Church and the Text of the New Testament, pt. 2

Gender Discord and Psalm 12:6-7

Historiography, Bible Doctrine, and the Text of Scripture

Honesty About the Historical Position on Preservation

If You Believe in Canonicity, You Can and Should Believe in Preservation

If You Believe in Canonicity, You Can and Should Believe in Preservation part 2

Is it True That No Two NT MSS Are Exactly the Same?

Is KJVO a Great Danger to Historic Fundamentalism?

Is KJVO a Great Danger to Historic Fundamentalism? Part Two

Is KJVO a Great Danger to Historic Fundamentalism? Part Three

Isaiah 59:21 and the Perfect Preservation of Scripture (J)

Jerome’s Preface to the Canonical Epistles–Ancient Evidence for 1 John 5:7 (T)

John 10:35, the Scripture Cannot Be Broken, and Perfect Preservation of Scripture

John Owen Again on the Septuagint (LXX) Issue Related to the Presuppositions for the Preservation of Scripture, Meanwhile Answering James White

Jon Gleason’s Series on Preservation of Scripture: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8

Kay Jay Vee Potpourri

Kethiv / Qere and King James Only (KJVO) or Perfect Preservation (T)

The Latin Vulgate and the King James Version

The Lie about the History of One Bible Onlyism

More James White on the Version Issue: Either He Doesn’t Know What He’s Talking About or He’s Lying

More James White on the Version Issue: Either He Doesn’t Know What He’s Talking About or He’s Lying, pt. 2

More James White on the Version Issue: Either He Doesn’t Know What He’s Talking About or He’s Lying, pt. 3

More James White on the Version Issue: Either He Doesn’t Know What He’s Talking About or He’s Lying, pt. 4

WHAT IS TRUTH, SCRIPTURE INDEX, GENESIS to REVELATION (In Order)

Isaiah 59:21 and the Perfect Preservation of Scripture (J)
The Mission of the Messiah’s Grace: A New Order of Living, Isaiah 42:1-4

Lamentations

Not God’s Problem: The Bible Does Answer the Question of Suffering in Lamentations

Daniel

Daniel 3:25: “the Son of God” or “a son of the gods”? (T)
Proof that the Bible is the Word of God from the Book of Daniel (T)

Matthew

The Devil in the Details? Matthew 5:18, 19 and the Authority of Scripture
The Devil in the Details? Matthew 5:18, 19 and the Authority of Scripture, part two
30, 60, 100: Can We Conclude That More Fruit Was Caused by the One Receiving the Seed?
A Meditation upon Matthew 25:21, 23: “His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. . . . His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.” (T)

Mark

Mark 7:4-5:  Mark 7:4 & the “washing [baptidzo] . . . of tables:” Baptism is still Immersion in the Baptizing of Tables or Dining Couches (T)
Mark 7:4-5:  Mark 7:4 & the “washing [baptidzo] . . . of tables:” Baptism is still Immersion in the Baptizing of Tables or Dining Couches, part 2 (T)
Mark 7:7, Corban: Rearing Its Ugly Head Again in Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism About Mark
Mark 7:13:  The Pharisees to the Left: Little Faith, Weak Minds, Poor Arguments, But With a Loud Fanfare
Mark 11:  Jesus Said, Have Faith in God
Mark 13:32: the Son’s Glorious Ignorance of the Day and Hour

Luke

The Ignorance of a Luke 10 Approach (J)
Luke 14:15-24: What It Means (part one)
Luke 14:15-24: What It Means (part two)
Luke 15:  Why Doesn’t Tim Keller Include the Younger Son?
Luke 18:18-30:  The Rich Young Ruler: Tell-Tale Passage for Soteriology, Number One
Luke 18:18-30:  The Rich Young Ruler: Tell-Tale Passage for Soteriology, Number Two
Luke 18:18-30:  The Rich Young Ruler: Tell-Tale Passage for Soteriology, Number Three
Luke 23:43: Where Does the Comma Go? Was the Thief in Paradise That Day? “Verily, I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise,” as in the KJV, or “Verily I say unto thee to day, Thou shalt be with me in paradise,” as the Watchtower Society, Seventh Day Adventism, and other annihilationists teach? (T)

John

John 6: Church Growth Methods and Other Sins
John 6: Church Growth Methods and Other Sins, pt. 2
The Truth Shall Make You Free, pt. 1 (John 8:32)
The Truth Shall Make You Free, pt. 2 (John 8:32)
John 10:35, the Scripture Cannot Be Broken, and Perfect Preservation of Scripture
John 12:24-25: The Corn / Grain of Wheat Dying in the Ground: A Second Blessing? (T)
“Abide in Me,” John 15:1-8: Saved or Unsaved, Not Christian or Better Christian
Abiding in Christ: What Does it Mean? part 5 of 9, Old Testament Background to the Vine Image of John 15 (T)
Abiding in Christ: What Does it Mean? part 6 of 9: Exposition of John 15:1-3 (T)
Abiding in Christ: What Does it Mean? part 7 of 9: Exposition of John 15:4-5 (T)
Abiding in Christ: What Does it Mean? part 8 of 9: Exposition of John 15:6-11 (T)
What Is the Guidance of the Holy Spirit in John 16:13?

Acts

Acts 2:38–Baptism Essential to Salvation? (T)
Acts 11:26: All Christians are Disciples (T)
Acts 22:16–Baptism Essential for Salvation? (T)
Exploring Unacceptable Degrees of Normativeness of the Book of Acts

1 Corinthians

1 Corinthians 1:19-22:  Wisdom and Signs: Two Characteristics Rampant in Churches
1 Corinthians 2:7:  Don’t Fix Stupid: Stupid Doesn’t Need Fixing
1 Corinthians 6:1-4 — God’s Evaluation of the Judgment of an Individual Church
1 Corinthians 6:9-10:  Ability to Judge, Standard of Judgment, and Judging Effeminate Behavior (and Separating from It)
1 Corinthians 11:2-16, Headcoverings, and Historical Doctrine
Proof-Text Perversions: 1 Corinthians 12:13 (part one)
Proof-Text Perversions: 1 Corinthians 12:13 (part two)
Proof-Text Perversions: 1 Corinthians 12:13 (part three)
Proof-Text Perversions: 1 Corinthians 12:13 (part four)
Proof-Text Perversions: 1 Corinthians 12:13 (part five)
Proof-Text Perversions: 1 Corinthians 12:13 (part six)
A Review of Kevin Bauder’s Article on 1 Corinthians 12:13
En Protois and 1 Corinthians 15:3: First of All, First In Order
1 Corinthians 15:3: En Protois, First in Order or First in Importance, and Ranking Doctrines
1 Corinthians 15:1-4:  When An Exegetical Fallacy Becomes a Translation and then a Philosophy
Gospel Minimization: Is Paul Saying in 1 Corinthians 15 that the Gospel Is Merely the Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Christ?

2 Corinthians

2 Corinthians 2:12-17: An Imperative Passage for a Right View of Ministry Success
How Big Is Disobedience to 2 Corinthians 6:14?

WHAT IS TRUTH, SCRIPTURE INDEX IN ORDER OF BOOKS (as of January 2019)

All Articles and Essays Written by Kent Brandenburg unless otherwise Noted
(J) for Jackhammer article [all of my articles from Aug 2006 to Feb 2011]
(T) for Thomas Ross article

Genesis

Separation Is An Indispensable Message You Should Pick Up from the Whole Bible, But Let’s Start with Genesis

Leviticus

Embarrassment: Leviticus 18, NY Times, and Albert Mohler

Deuteronomy

Divorce, Deuteronomy 24:1-4, Remarriage, and New Testament teaching (T)
What I’ve Preached on Deuteronomy 24 (T)

1 Chronicles

Worship and the Ark Narrative in 1 Chronicles, pt. 1
Worship and the Ark Narrative in 1 Chronicles, pt. 2
Worship and the Ark Narrative in 1 Chronicles, pt. 3
Worship and the Ark Narrative in 1 Chronicles, pt. 4
Worship and the Ark Narrative of 1 Chronicles, pt. 5

Psalms

Gender Discord and Psalm 12:6-7
Psalm 12:6–7 and Gender Discordance: the anti-KJV and anti-preservation argument debunked (again) (T)
Psalm 12:6-7 Commentaries and the Preservation of Words (T)
Missions Exists Because Worship of God Doesn’t: Psalm 96
Psalm 46:10
Psalm 119, The Hate Psalm, and the Practice of Contemporary Christianity
A Meditation upon Psalm 119:148: “My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.” (T)

Proverbs

Proverbs 22:6 — Children of Obedient Parents Turning Out for God–Certainty or Mere Possibility? Part 1 (T)
Proverbs 22:6 — Children of Obedient Parents Turning Out for God–Certainty or Mere Possibility? Part 2 (T)
Proverbs 22:6 and Adoption, part 1 of 2 (T)
Proverbs 22:6 and Adoption, part 2 of 2 (T)
One Stop Shop on Prov 23:31 and “When It Is Red”

Isaiah

Romans

Romans 1:18 (Operation Suppression)
Let’s Think about Romans 6:23 in Its Context for a “Gospel Presentation”
Romans 8:14-16: Bondage and Fear: Not the Result of a Higher or “Stricter” Standard
Romans 10:9-13: Are “Confess” and “Call” Post-Justification?
Romans 10:9-13: Are “Confess” and “Call” Post-Justification? (part two)
Romans 10:9-13: Are “Confess” and “Call” Post-Justification? (part three)
Romans 10:9-13: Are “Confess” and “Call” Post-Justification? (part four)
Romans 10:9-13: Are “Confess” and “Call” Post-Justification? (part five)
Romans 14: Disputations about Doubtful Disputations (J)

Galatians

The Epistle to the Galatians and Evangelicalism or New Evangelicalism: Slaves or Sons
Does Christ live the Christian Life for the Christian? The Keswick View of Galatians 2:20 Examined, part 1 of 4 (T)
Galatians 2:20–the Keswick “Christ-life”? part 2 of 4 in Does Christ live the Christian Life for the Christian? The Keswick View of Galatians 2:20 Examined (T)
Do Keswick Critics Routinely Misrepresent Keswick Theology? Part 3 of 3 (T)
The Keswick Christ-life-other alleged Scriptural support: part 4 of 4 in Does Christ live the Christian Life for the Christian? The Keswick View of Galatians 2:20 Examined (T)
Paul Obliterates Pandering in Galatians: Social Justice Panderers
Paul Obliterates Pandering in Galatians: His Antidote to Pandering

Ephesians

As the Church Is Subject Unto Christ
Ephesians 6:19-20, Open My Mouth Boldly

Philippians

Philippians 2:14-16, Serious Griping

Colossians

Solution to All Human Problems (Colossians 1:1-2) (J)
A Valid Prayer Request (Colossians 1:9) (J)
If Ye Continue (Colossians 1:23) (J)
The Essential for Ministry (Colossians 1:24-25) (J)
Hearts Comforted (Colossians 2:1-2a) (J)
Keeping Rank, Holding the Line, and Marching Forward (Colossians 2:4-7) (J)
The Sufficiency of Jesus (Colossians 2:8-10) (J)
Spiritual Bullies (Colossians 2:16-17) (J)
Massively Exaggerated to the Point of Dishonest Applications of Colossians 2:20-23
A Way Into Heaven Before You Die (Colossians 3:1-4) (J)
Kill Yourself (Colossians 3:5) (J)
The New Refusal to Put Off the Old Man (Colossians 3:6-10) (J)
How Can I Forgive? (Colossians 3:13) (J)
Three Imperatives for the New Man (Colossians 3:15-17) (J)
The Relationships of the New Man (Colossians 3:18-4:1) (J)
Evangelistic Prayers (Colossians 4:2-6) (J)
A Brother, A Help, and A Fellow Slave of the Lord (Colossians 4:7) (J)

1 Thessalonians

Does 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10 Describe Conversion or Some Post Conversion Sanctification Experience?

1 Timothy

1 Timothy 4:10: “Saviour Of All Men”: What Does It Mean?

2 Timothy

Are Accurate Copies and Translations of Scripture-Such as the KJV-Inspired? A Study of 2 Timothy 3:16, part 1
Are Accurate Copies and Translations of Scripture-Such as the KJV-Inspired? A Study of 2 Timothy 3:16, part 2
Are Accurate Copies and Translations of Scripture-Such as the KJV-Inspired? A Study of 2 Timothy 3:16, part 3
Are Accurate Copies and Translations of Scripture-Such as the KJV-Inspired? A Study of 2 Timothy 3:16, part 4

Titus

“Having Faithful Children” in Titus 1:6 (J)

Hebrews

Hebrews 10:24-25: How Faithful Is Faithful to Church

James

The “Altar Call”: James 1:21 and the Circumstances of Worship
James 5:14-20: The Pentecostal Doctrine of Faith-Healing and James 5:14-20, part 1 (T)
The Pentecostal Doctrine of Faith-Healing and James 5:14-20, part 2
The Pentecostal Doctrine of Faith-Healing and James 5:14-20, part 3 (T)
The Pentecostal Doctrine of Faith-Healing and James 5:14-20, part 4 (T)
James 5:14-20 and Unconventional or Alternative Medicine, part five (T)

What Is The New Testament Basis For Praying For The Sick? James 5:14-20

1 Peter

Judgment Must Begin in the House of God
Judgment Must Begin in the House of God, pt. 2

2 Peter

2 Peter 3:16: Hard to Be Understood

1 John

1 John 4:1-3: The Command to “try the spirits” and the Rise of the Pentecostal, Charismatic, and Word of Faith Doctrine of Exorcism, part 1 of 3 (T)
1 John 4:1-3: The Command to “try the spirits” and the Rise of the Pentecostal, Charismatic, and Word of Faith Doctrine of Exorcism, part 2 of 3 (T)
1 John 4:1-3: The Command to “Try the spirits” and the rise of the Pentecostal, Charismatic, and Word of Faith Doctrine of Exorcism, part 3 of 3 (T)

2 John

Point of 2 John: Truth the Boundary of Acceptance
2 John 7-11: Case Study or Comprehensive?

Revelation

The Book of Life and Eternal Security–do Revelation 3:5 & Revelation 22:18-19 Teach that a Christian may Lose his Salvation? (T)
Revelation 12, Christmas in the Apocalypse
Revelation 22:18-19 and the Perfect Preservation of Scripture (J)

WHAT IS TRUTH, TOPICAL INDEX, U to Z

America Is NOT A Christian Nation

WHAT IS TRUTH, TOPICAL INDEX, U to Z (as of January 2019)

All Articles and Essays Written by Kent Brandenburg unless otherwise Noted
(J) for Jackhammer article [all of my articles from Aug 2006 to Feb 2011]
(T) for Thomas Ross article

United States History

The Fifth American War: Uniquely Good Analysis By Victor David Hanson

Powdered Wigs and Wooden Teeth

Preying for Power

Reports of Revival in America

Will of God

Erroneous Reliance on Circumstances as Evidence of the Holy Spirit’s Leading

God Speaking and the Individual Will of God

God Speaking and the Individual Will of God, pt. 2

The Magic Rings

Word of Truth Conference (Bethel Baptist Church)

All Audio and Video Up for 2017 WORD OF TRUTH CONFERENCE

Audio and Video of 2018 Word of Truth Conference — The Gospel (Part Four)

I-MAGINATION: The God of Truth Replaced in an Age of Apostasy

The Very First Word of Truth Conference

Word of Truth Conference Line-Up 2018

Word of Truth Conference: the 2018 Sermons are Online (T)

World History

Where Did the Mess Begin?

Worldliness

The Capitulation of the Church Hastened Transgenderism

Complicit: The World’s Knowledge of and Hypocrisy In the Doctrine of Separation

Crossing Over: Proving the Resolved Trailer

A Defense of the Peter Masters’ Article with Criticism of its Bad Reviews

A Defense of the Peter Masters’ Article with Criticism of its Bad Reviews part two

The Destructive Instinct of Evangelicalism and Now Fundamentalism for and with Celebrity

Doctrine Is Not the Biggest Challenge to the Gospel in the Church Today

The Fear of “Externalism” In Preaching against Worldliness and for Personal Separation

Highway Work

Hillsong: If Nothing Is Wrong, Then Nothing Is Wrong

How Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism Have Invented and Continue to Reinvent A Socially Acceptable Impostor and Placebo Christianity

The Hypocrisy of Contemporary “Conservative” Evangelicalism pt. 2: Dovetailing with ‘Reacquiring a Christian Counterculture, pt. 2’ (J)

“I’m Gunna Use Worldly Lust to Lure Kids to Christian College”

John Piper, Evangelicals and Fundamentalists, and Aesthetic, Cultural, Entertainment, and Attire Consistency

Join Me in the Campaign against BABEL: Bigotry Against the Bible Executed Legally

Join the Campaign against BABEL: Bigotry Against the Bible Executed Legally

The Myth of ECx Internalism and Grace

The Myth of Only Internal Worldliness (J)

The Normalization of Aberrant Behavior Now in Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism

Nothing Is Weird Anymore

The Pot and the Kettle: MacArthur and Driscoll

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop?

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part two)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part three)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part four)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part five)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part six)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part seven)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part eight)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part nine)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part ten)

What the Worship War or Music Issue Really Is About (part eleven)

Russell Moore, Exhibit One in Ingratiation of Gospel Hipsterness

Schemes That Avoid Consequences Scripture Guarantees for True Followers of the Lord

Schemes That Avoid Consequences Scripture Guarantees for True Followers of the Lord, pt. 2

Schemes That Avoid Consequences Scripture Guarantees for True Followers of the Lord, pt. 3

Were We Wrong, Can Something Like This Change, or What?

Why Doesn’t Tim Keller Include the Younger Son?

Avalanche toward Gomorrah

Worldview

Arctic Ice Sheets Melting, So Ocean Level Rising (Snicker)

Canaanite DNA and Fake News

Concocted Christianity

The Connection Between One’s World View and the Version Issue

Did New Testament Christianity Borrow from Mithraism? (T)

Ebola: Government Failure Stems from a Shift in Worldview

Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism: The Embrace of Neutrality (J)

Extremists

The Failure of the Naturalistic View of Origins: Not Observable or Repeatable

Global Warming

God-Given Rights: A Crucial Denial of a Foundation of Conservatism at National Review

Government, Family, Church: Why More?

The Height of Postmodern or Two Truth Folly

“He” vs. “they”: the 3rd Person Singular English Pronoun, Feminism, Patriarchy, and Biblical Christianity in Grammar (T)

How Much Diversity Should a Christian Allow and What Is His Responsibility to Error?

Johnny Manziel, Obscenity, and Evangelicalism

Jordan Peterson: The Lowering Standard of Acceptance

The Lie of Two Worlds

The Lie of Two Worlds, pt. 2

The Lure of the Left

Metaphysical Reality

Modernism Criticizes Post-Modernism: What Of It?

Origin of the Universe and Life: Random or Designed

The Pagan Worldview of Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism

Perfect Preservation of Scripture and Young Earth Creationism

Population Explosion

Question Authority

Scan of 100,000 Galaxies and No Alien Life: What’s That Supposed to Mean?

Should Naturalistic Explanations Overrule Scriptural Ones?

The Sister Presuppositions of Palaeography and Paleontology

Summit on Inerrancy: Not a Consistent, Therefore, Christian Worldview

The Virtue of Nationalism

Who’s Worse

The Worldview of Romney and Ryan and the 2012 Presidential Election

Worship

The “Altar Call”: James 1:21 and the Circumstances of Worship

Can or Should God Be Worshiped Merely by Musical Instruments without the Words or Lyrics?

A Critique: Worship Wars by Robert Bakss

A Critique: Worship Wars by Robert Bakss, pt. 2

Evangelical Mumbo Jumbo: Ziplines and Worship Wars

The First Worship War

Images and Pictures of Jesus Christ Forbidden by Scripture

I Thought They Believed This?

A Modern Perversion of the Temple

The Necessity of Poetry in the Praise of God

On Paper or In Practice

“On Spiritual Worship,” Stephen Charnock (1628-1680)

Oxymorons (Joy in Worship)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop?

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part two)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part three)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part four)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part five)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part six)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part seven)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part eight)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part nine)

Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? (part ten)

What the Worship War or Music Issue Really Is About (part eleven)

Reverence and Solemnity: Essential Aspects of Biblical Worship, part 1 of 8 (T)

Reverence and Solemnity: Essential Aspects of Biblical Worship, part 2 of 8 (T)

Reverence and Solemnity: Essential Aspects of Biblical Worship, part 3 of 8 (T)

Reverence and Solemnity: Essential Aspects of Biblical Worship, part 4 of 8 (T)

Reverence and Solemnity: Essential Aspects of Biblical Worship, part 5 of 8 (T)

Reverence and Solemnity: Essential Aspects of Biblical Worship, part 6 of 8 (T)

Reverence and Solemnity: Essential Aspects of Biblical Worship, part 7 of 8 (T)

Reverence and Solemnity: Essential Aspects of Biblical Worship, part 8 of 8 (T)

The Revision or Redefinition of Art, Related to False Worship

Trinity Doctrine or Worship Music, Which Is More Important?

Was David Cloud Right in His Exposure and Reproof of West Coast Worship?

What Is Worship?

Who Can Say Who’s Wrong?

Why “Blended Worship”?

Worship and the Ark Narrative in 1 Chronicles, pt. 1

Worship and the Ark Narrative in 1 Chronicles, pt. 2

Worship and the Ark Narrative in 1 Chronicles, pt. 3

Worship and the Ark Narrative in 1 Chronicles, pt. 4

Worship and the Ark Narrative of 1 Chronicles, pt. 5

WHAT IS TRUTH, TOPICAL INDEX, P to T

Churches and their Popular Inclusion of Dress Information on their Websites

WHAT IS TRUTH, TOPICAL INDEX, P to T (as of January 2019)

All Articles and Essays Written by Kent Brandenburg unless otherwise Noted
(J) for Jackhammer article [all of my articles from Aug 2006 to Feb 2011]
(T) for Thomas Ross article

Pandering (as a Strategy or Technique)

The Pandering President of America, States of America, Church of America, and the Pandering Party

Pandering: The Actual Tie that Binds Most of American Churches

Paul Obliterates Pandering in Galatians: Social Justice Panderers

Paul Obliterates Pandering in Galatians: His Antidote to Pandering

Parachurch Organizations

“I’m Gunna Use Worldly Lust to Lure Kids to Christian College”

Parenting

Abusive Parenting

Children of Obedient Parents Turning Out for God–Certainty or Mere Possibility? Part 1 (T)

Children of Obedient Parents Turning Out for God–Certainty or Mere Possibility? Part 2 (T)

Christian Liberty and Its Relationship to Honor of Parents

Proverbs 22:6 and Adoption, part 1 of 2 (T)

Proverbs 22:6 and Adoption, part 2 of 2 (T)

Sons Need Dads and Same Gender Marriage: Something’s Gotta Give

The Foundation for Teaching Music to Children: Why Music? (J)

Toward Your Children Growing Up to Be Excellent Musicians (J)

Why Are We Losing Our Kids? (Bobby Mitchell) (J)

Parenting: Spanking

The Corporeal Discipline of Children

The Role of the Attack on Spanking in Worldwide Apostasy

The Scoop on Spanking

The War Against Biblical, God-Ordained Child Discipline

Pastoring and Pastoral Qualifications

Are the Qualifications for the Office of the Pastor Also Disqualifications?

Faithful as a Pastor according to the Pastoral Epistles — Separation?

Graduation Address from our M.Div Recipient

“Having Faithful Children” in Titus 1:6 (J)

How God “Calls” a Man to the Ministry (J)

Lack of True Shepherding Instinct to Protect

Lowering the Bar for Preachers: They’re Called! (J)

Making the Old Paradigm the New Paradigm for “Full Time” Ministry

My History with Preaching with a Special Focus on John MacArthur

A Nice House with Limited Income in the Most Expensive Housing Market in the United States+

Pastors and Churches That Accept Our Former Members

A Primer in The Call (to the “Ministry?”) (J)

You Call Me (J)

Personal

Abortion, Sodomy, and Economics Tract Updated (Thomas Ross personal)

Assortment

Availability for Meetings (Thomas Ross personal)

Baldness

Blog Topic in Newspaper Article

Creationist and Jesus-Mythicist Videos, and a Blog for Women (Thomas Ross personal)

Faithful Flooring (Thomas Ross personal)

For the Rest of This Season, I’m Giving Up NBA Basketball

Free Flight to Europe, Biblical Evangelism, Odds and Ends (Thomas Ross personal)

Harvard Joins the Audience of Brandenburg and What Is Truth

Help Get the Gospel to the Ends of the Earth (Thomas Ross personal)

Kenya Trip, Drama, Literature; Chess: Odds and Ends (Thomas Ross personal)

Learn Greek, Archaeology, and Evangelism (Thomas Ross personal)

Lebron James Reads What Is Truth

My History with Preaching with a Special Focus on John MacArthur

New Work in Sacramento (2010)

Oft Quoted on Economic Matters

Placing Myself in Tyler’s Report Card On Baptist Fundamentalism

Please Stop

Recent Sundries

Serious

A Story: Lies, Libel, and Blogdom

Sundries, Including the Debt Ceiling and a P90x Update

Things for Tourists to Do In San Francisco (T)

2014-15 Bethel Christmas Program

When I Left Fundamentalism part one

When I Left Fundamentalism part two

When I Left Fundamentalism part three

When I Left Fundamentalism part four

When I Left Fundamentalism part five

When I Left Fundamentalism part six

When I Left Fundamentalism part seven

When I Left Fundamentalism part eight

When I Left Fundamentalism part nine

When I Left Fundamentalism part ten

Reviewing Why I Can’t Be A Fundamentalist

Personal: Blogging

The Index for What Is Truth

Should I Blog?

The What is Truth? blog: How Has It Blessed You? (T)

WHAT IS TRUTH SABBATICAL

Personal: Church

Distinctions in Churches and Characteristics of Churches: I Know What Distinguishes Ours

Personal: College

What Do You Think? (Maranatha and Preservation Issue)

Personal: Family

Big 50: Mom and Dad

Brandenburg-Wilhite Wedding (Now Mr. and Mrs. Derek Wilhite)

Julia and Derek: The Engagement

Personal: Trip to Europe (UK, Italy, France — May/June 2018)

A Few Wrap-Ups of Our Trip to Europe — number one

A Few Wrap-Ups of Our Trip to Europe — number two

A Few (Now More than a Few) Wrap-Ups of Our Trip to Europe — number three

Blogging Our Europe Trip: Days One and Two — Travel and Arrival

Blogging Our Europe Trip: Days Three and Four — Cotswolds, Bath, and to London

Blogging Our Europe Trip: Days Five and Six — London

Blogging Our Europe Trip: Day Seven

Blogging Our Europe Trip: Day Seven, Part Two

The Trip to Europe Continued (Ninth Post In Total)

The Trip to Europe Continued (Tenth Post In Total)

The Trip to Europe Continued (Eleventh Post In Total)

The Trip to Europe Continued (Twelfth Post In Total)

The Trip to Europe Continued (Thirteenth Post In Total)

The Trip to Europe Continued (Fourteenth Post In Total)

The Trip to Europe Continued (Fifteenth Post In Total)

The Trip to Europe Continued (Sixteenth Post In Total)

The Trip to Europe Continued (Seventeenth Post In Total)

The Trip to Europe Continued (Eighteenth Post In Total)

The Trip to Europe Continued (Nineteenth Post In Total)

Europe Trip. Photos.

Philosophy

The Dialectic Three Step

The End Justifies the Means

Open Mindedness: Relatively New In History — Why?

The Path to Postmodern Subjectivity Comes Through Fear, Pragmatism, and, Yes, Covenant Theology

Pluralism

My Sikh Issue: Pluralism Versus Relativism

Poetry

My Peace of Mind (David Warner)

Poem by David Warner

Politics (Government)

The Absence of Shame in This Country

A Biblical Way to Influence Politics (T)

Brett Kavanaugh: Alcohol and the Party Culture

Against Trump

America Is NOT A Christian Nation

Another Take on This Year’s Presidential Election

Are Passages on Old Testament Strangers A Legitimate Basis for Taking Refugees into the Country?

The Birth Certificate: Why It Remains an Issue

The Bible, Separation of Powers, and a Do Nothing Congress

Brexit Validation

Can Islam Assimilate Into American Society or Is Islam Protected by the First Amendment?

Can Islam Assimilate Into American Society or Is Islam Protected by the First Amendment? pt. 2

A Case Study on Fake Tolerance (part one, part two)

Change You’ll Regret (J)

Check These Out (Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele)

Clarity As to What This Election Is About

Complicit: The World’s Knowledge of and Hypocrisy In the Doctrine of Separation

Conservatives and Free Speech

Contraception, Sandra Fluke, and the Rush Limbaugh Controversy

Delusional Disconnect and Legitimate Demonstration

Demagogue: Sausage Maker

DOING JUSTICE: Weighing Problems in a Just Manner

Donald Trump Doesn’t Care That Your Feelings Are Hurt

Ebola: Government Failure Stems from a Shift in Worldview

Election 2012: Do Rich People Like Romney Really Pay Less Taxes?

Ferguson and Changing Social Structure or Infrastructure

Final 2016 Presidential Argument — Anti-Anti Trump

Final 2016 Presidential Argument — Anti-Anti Trump, pt. 2

For Crying Out Loud

Forward or Backward?

Free Speech and Diversity That Isn’t, And Half the Country Knows It

Free Trade, Putin, and Other Takes on the Geopolitical Scene

Fundamental Stupidity

God-Given Rights: A Crucial Denial of a Foundation of Conservatism at National Review

Good Article on Hillary Clinton at National Review

A Handy Explanatory Guide for Hillary Clinton’s Basket of Deplorables

Hillary Clinton, Legal Relativism, and the Church

Historic, Unprecedented Political Strangeness

Honoring Joshua Bernard, Marine Corporal, and Bringing Awareness to Rules of Engagement

How Much Should Church Leadership Be Involved In Governmental or Political Matters?

How To Keep Children Safe

Interesting and Important Article in Jerusalem Post Regarding This Election

The Interpretation of Trump’s Travel Ban and the Interpretation of Scripture

Interpreting Trump and the Never or Anti Trumpers

Interpreting Violence

Is a Progressive Tax Code Constitutional?

Islam in America: Violent and Bloodthirsty, or Peaceful? (T)

Judging the 2016 Presidential Election as of Today, October 9

Kim Davis, Gavin Newsom, and the Christian’s Obedience to Unlawful Laws

Land of Liberty

Liberty and Equality: Adducing the Protests

The Limitations of Government in Private Business and First Amendment Freedom of Religion

Moral Narcissist*

My Take on the Support of Same Sex Marriage

Nationalism and Conservatism: Nations Are God’s Will

Obama and Infanticide, Let Alone Obama and Abortion

Obama = Scary for Israel

Palin and Paul Revere

Permission or Ability…To Speak Freely

Perversion of Justice

Political Candidates and the Evolution Question

Donald Trump Can’t Make America Great Again

The Pope, Stephen Colbert, Hillary’s Apology, and Truth

Postmodernism Meets Islam Meets Danger and Destruction

President Obama’s “Great” Health Care “Victory”

Recognizing the Contradictions: Same Sex Marriage and the First Amendment

Share Your Own Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich, Obama

Should Homosexuals be Put to Death by the Government? (T)

Some Common Sense on the Fort Hood Murders

Some Thoughts on the Zimmerman Trial

The Obama Vote

The Only One Bible Belief

The Supreme Court Decisions on Same Sex Marriage

The Supreme Court Ruling on the Second Amendment

The “As Long As It Doesn’t Hurt Somebody” Argument

The Tale of Two Cities: Newtown, CT and West Philadelphia, PA

This Woman Is Running for Re-election In My State

Thoughts on Single Federal Judge Overturning State Constitution on Marriage

A Tipping Point and a New America

Today’s Arguing that Isn’t Concerned about the Truth

Travel Ban Roll-Out Versus Oroville Dam Evacuation

Trump Follow-Up

Trump, Meaning, and Evangelicalism

Trump Rumors

Trump Win

Two Big Observations on America’s News: First, Trump’s Lies

Two Scoops: Word of Truth, 2012, and Romney

Two Things in the Realm of Current Events that Seem Obvious

The Ungovernable Will Not Be Governed

Update on the Obama “Bitter” Comment

Use Tax, Sales Tax, the Bible, and Other Financial Matters (T)

The Virtue of Nationalism

Vote Your Conscience

Vulgarity, Meaning, Evangelicalism, Politics, and Hypocrisy

Weekend Observations: Musical Meaning and Geert Wilders and Racism

Weekend Observations: What I Think Is the True Narrative on the 2016 Presidential Election and the Russia Connection

We’re Going to Get What We Deserve

What’s Being Missed in the Obama “Bitter” Comment

When All Lives and Their Things Don’t Matter

Who Is Killing Who? The Real Issues in the Trayvon Martin Situation

The Worldview of Romney and Ryan and the 2012 Presidential Election

What Is Diversity and Is It Right Now Welcome in the United States?

What Many Professional Athletes Really Think and Other Observations

What’s the Protest: NFL and NBA Athletes

Why Does this President of the United States Remain Popular?

Yes to McCain Is No to Obama (J)

You Should Consider Very Strongly How Bad A Clinton Administration Will Be

You Should Vote for Romney, the Basic Argument

Pragmatism

The Apostle Paul and Ethics in Evangelism: Exposing the Corruption of Modern Methods

Are We Practical or Just Pragmatic? (J)

Bribery and Pandering: Ties that Bind Modern Church Growth (that neither Jesus nor the Apostles Used)

Bribery and Pandering: Ties that Bind Modern Church Growth (that neither Jesus nor the Apostles Used), pt. 2

Cleverness

The Destructive Instinct of Evangelicalism and Now Fundamentalism for and with Celebrity

It Isn’t Digging Ditches

Lance Armstrong, Yawn: Or the Parallel Between Him and Fundagelicals

One Particular Corruption of Repentance to Accommodate a Methodology, Success, and Numbers

Prayer

A Valid Prayer Request (Colossians 1:9) (J)

The Definition of Faith or Belief and Prayer

The Definition of Faith or Belief and Prayer, pt. 2

Evangelistic Prayers (Colossians 4:2-6) (J)

Group Praying

Jesus Said, Have Faith in God

The Keswick-Continuationist Prayer Equivalent Everywhere in Christianity

More About How to Pray

WHAT IS TRUTH, TOPICAL INDEX, K to O