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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
1.) The Background and History of the Keswick Convention and Keswick Theology The content of this post is now available at the link viewable by clicking here. It combines all the parts of this series of blog posts in one file. Please view the material at that link. This part covesr from the words: “Stephen […]
Conservative Evangelicals Explore the Doctrine of Separation, part three
Part One Part Two I started writing sometime Sunday a first post on a presentation on the doctrine of separation by Albert Mohler at the Shepherd’s Conference in Southern California. I am doing this because it is so infrequent to non-existent that you will hear teaching from an evangelical on separation, and that […]
Conservative Evangelicals Explore the Doctrine of Separation, part two
Part One. The Bible teaches separation from the very first chapter when the earth was without form and uninhabited, that is, unusable, and God began separating, starting with light from darkness. Nothing functions without some sort of separation. You really can’t have unity without separation. God is a Separatist. When someone, like Albert Mohler in […]
Conservative Evangelicals Explore the Doctrine of Separation, part one
Not until very recently have I ever heard an evangelical talk about the doctrine of ecclesiastical separation. When I attended the ETS meeting in San Francisco half a dozen years ago, I looked everywhere, scouring closely in the mammoth book room for a book on separation, and found none. I have begun to hear some […]
Psalm 12:6-7 Commentaries and the Preservation of Words
Psalm 12:6-7 reads: 6 The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. 7 Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever. The exegetical evidence that Psalm 12:6-7 refers to the preservation of the words of Scripture is very strong. This text receives […]
“I Don’t See Man Clothes and Woman Clothes” — Evangelicalism and Most of Fundamentalism Agree
Why are professing Christian leaders opposed to same sex marriage? Sure, God the Father in Genesis 2 and God the Son in Matthew 19 teach marriage only between one man and woman. It’s God’s only way. Yet, what is the major problem with same sex marriage? It is the rebellion against God’s design, which is […]
The Providence of God and Sickness
The terminology “providence of God” doesn’t appear in the Bible, but it represents how God works in the Bible and, therefore, history. God wants to be trusted. Trusting God, as related to sickness, means remaining hopeful in light of God’s love, goodness, and grace. God cares about sparrows. God even cares about the grass of […]
Damning Danger in Asking Christ into Your Heart: The Testimony of Baptist Pastor Ovid Need, part 4 of 4
Hardness & Hostility A man who represented Accelerated Christian Education in our area once told me in the midst of an intense discussion about the plan of salvation presented in ACE’s material: “All the best scholars agree that the terms are the same—Ask Jesus into your heart and trust Christ as your substitute.” He went […]
Vulgarity, Meaning, Evangelicalism, Politics, and Hypocrisy
For fulfilling its particular purpose, I don’t know of a better metaphor than the pot calling the kettle black. Our culture, our society, loves vulgarity, craves vulgarity, embraces vulgarity. Evangelicalism loves vulgarity. I think most of fundamentalism loves vulgarity. Very few people dislike vulgarity in the whole United States. Along comes Donald Trump […]
The Baptist Distinctives Are Not the Bible
Most of my readers probably know or have at least heard of the terminology, “the Baptist distinctives.” The two words, Baptist distinctives, answer the question, what distinguishes a New Testament church in contrast to other religious denominations? What sets a church apart as a New Testament church? This assumes Baptist churches alone are […]
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