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The Pretence of Christian Liberty
You like that title? It’s not original. It comes from the London Baptist Confession of Faith (1689) [21:3]: They who upon pretence of Christian liberty do practice any sin, or cherish any sinful lust, as they do thereby pervert the main design of the grace of the gospel to their own destruction, so they wholly […]
No Daisy Dukes In the Kingdom: Professing Christians Who Don’t Want to Go to Hell But They Don’t Like the Kingdom of God Either
In His model prayer, the Lord Jesus Christ gave the pattern of praying, “Thy kingdom come,” an imperative of request. True believers will ask for God’s kingdom to come. They want it. The kingdom of God isn’t some arbitrary kingdom like Vulgaria in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. It is a particular, defined kingdom. Jesus is […]
The Easiest People In the World To Fool
The Bible doesn’t make a point blank statement to describe the people easiest in the world to fool — “they are. . . .” You can cull this information from a cumulative view of all of scripture though. On top of that, it has been my observation. The phrase, “a sucker is born every minute,” […]
COVID-19 and Churches Subject to the Higher Powers of Romans 13
Government response to COVID-19 challenged Christian thinking on Romans 13 and other like New Testament passages. In other terms, it sharpened ecclesiology. One might call it a test or trial that aided sanctification. In the middle of this test, growth occurs. A church might look and act differently in a matter of months and say […]
Sustainability
Through all my thirty-three years of living in California, I often heard the word “sustainability.” It means “to exist constantly.” Only God has existed constantly (Psalm 90:2). God alone sustains the whole universe, all matter and space, and then the earth. Speaking of Jesus, John writes (John 1:3): All things were made by him; and […]
Is The Orthodox Church a False Church Within the True Church?
In the mid 1960s, Walter Martin became the first “Bible Answer Man,” exposing cults and false religions from all over the world. In 1989, when Martin died, Hank Hanegraff became the new “Bible Answer Man,” sort of like the line of the Dread Pirate Roberts in The Princess Bride. Someone else can become “The Bible […]
Is Kneeling at the Flag and During the National Anthem Disrespectful to the Flag?
What’s the point of kneeling at the flag and during the national anthem if it isn’t disrespect? Of course it is disrespect. The people doing it say that they are misunderstood. A lot is written about this, so it’s not hard to hear the point of kneeling. The kneelers are protesting systemic police brutality against […]
Another Quixotic Whiff for Mark Ward on the Bible and Its Preservation
With full disclaimer, from my childhood I recall Gilligan and the fearless crew on the uncharted desert isle. Mr. Howell, the Professor, and Skipper are dressed as women in an attempt to fool some visiting natives looking for a “white goddess” to throw into their volcano. Not expecting any of those three to pull it […]
The Myth of the Recovering Fundamentalist
I’ve been a fundamentalist. I’m not one. Do I consider myself to have “recovered”? I left fundamentalism. I separated from it. I didn’t escape it. I didn’t recover from it. I stopped being a fundamentalist. I didn’t go through a process of recovery. I saw it was wrong to be one, so I stopped being […]
King Jesus, the Least of the Commandments, and the Destructive Essential/Non-Essential Doctrine
In the flow of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5, He preaches the requirement for entrance into His kingdom (5:1-12) and then the present identity on the earth of its citizens, salt and light (5:13-16). Salt presents the negative identity of influence against decay or corruption (5:13). Light presents the positive identity of […]
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