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Is “If Something Is True” the Only Criteria for Using Hillsong and Bethel Music? Critique of a John MacArthur Answer
Like many others, I have a cell phone and when I pull up youtube, it feeds me what I might want to see and it showed me the above video, so I watched (by the way, three days after I published this, the original video was taken down, so I put this up in its […]
Analyzing the Values Yard or Window Sign
I don’t know if you see this above sign in your area, but it’s everywhere in coastal cities of the Western United States. In Berkeley and adjacent cities, it’s been at about every house or yard for a few years. Here in Oregon, I saw one on our street in our neighborhood too. I picked […]
Experts Who Evaluate Socialism and Capitalism Don’t Consider the One Key Thing and They Can’t Because of the One Key Thing
The divide in the country now leading up to this election has spawned numerous conversations, many scholarly ones, to compare socialism and capitalism. I’ve listened to some of them with intelligent historians, economists, philosophers, or sociologists. One I heard started with the question of Joseph Schumpeter, written in 1942 in his book, Capitalism, Socialism, and […]
Could Someone Be Saved When He Acknowledges He Believes Jesus Died for Him?
In now over three decades of regular evangelism, my outline of the gospel presents four points, the third of which is either worded, Jesus Paid the Penalty for Sin, or, Jesus Died for You. Either way, I end that point by asking, Do you believe that Jesus died for you? Almost everyone says, yes, to […]
The Combinations of Work at the Start of a Church
Many of you readers know we are starting or planting a church in Oregon right now. We are missionaries. When I say, “we,” I mean my wife and I. My two eighty year old parents are with us, while we start. We are also raising support at the same time, so if you are a […]
Two Short Essays: What Postmodernism Gets the Most Right (It Does) and Science Should Recognize Supernaturalism as Science
WHAT POSTMODERNISM GETS THE MOST RIGHT (IT DOES) Here is how Britannica defines postmodernism: Postmodernism, also spelled post-modernism, in Western philosophy, a late 20th-century movement characterized by broad skepticism, subjectivism, or relativism; a general suspicion of reason; and an acute sensitivity to the role of ideology in asserting and maintaining political and economic power. Postmodernism […]
No Crown Performance: God Wants To Be Sought After
One reason many give for not believing the gospel or the true message of scripture is the quality of the supportive evidence. In their assessment, the means by which God persuades of His existence or of the truth of the gospel does not rise to a high enough caliber to believe. The Bible preemptively strikes […]
What Is “Critical Race Theory”?
I remember visiting a particular house with a rainbow flag. There have actually been many, but this one comes to mind. I like rainbows. They are pretty. They’re meaningful in the Bible in a good way. When that flag flies on a house today, I’m critical in my mind and heart. I don’t like what […]
Why Does the Church Sing When It Is Assembled? Part Two
Part One A true reason for faithfulness to gather with the congregation of the Lord is to join the congregation in singing to the Lord. Recent government actions target singing in particular, seeing it as non-essential. Some churches have argued it is essential. Why is it essential though? What would be the argument for singing […]
Why Does the Church Sing When It Is Assembled?
Congregational and church choir singing has been in the news recently with state governments regulating churches to sing both as a congregation and with choirs only with masks. That’s in the news and it gets our attention. However, I want to talk about why churches sing at all when they gather. Does it matter whether […]
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