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Christmas Carols That Lie
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Christmas: Christians Were Against It Before They Were For It Before They Were Against It
Let me give you a summary of Christmas, writing completely off the top of my head, which is bald. One, we can be pretty sure that Jesus wasn’t born December 25th. Two, there is no history of Christmas celebration until medieval times. Three, Christmas originated with Roman Catholicism. The pope essentially invented it to compete […]
Hillsong: If Nothing Is Wrong, Then Nothing Is Wrong
Sometimes you can get your “church news” on ESPN. We don’t have cable television, so I read sports on the ESPN website, where I saw Justin Bieber was baptized in the bathtub of NBA center Tyson Chandler’s apartment in New York City. One of the hosts was wondering who the “guy on the right was,” […]
Reverent Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs–and Handel’s Messiah
Ephesians 5:18-19 states: “And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.” In light of this command, I thought you might be interested in my relatively recent expansion in […]
Children Scribble Scrabbling: Interpretation of History and Reformed Theology
A few weeks ago, some men commented here, offended at my characterization of the reformed, seeing it as having been disrespectful of a multitude of historic Christian figures, giants of theology and ministry. I borrowed a biblical metaphor by classifying them as children only in the sense that I was writing in that post. The […]
The Damage of the Non-Essential Doctrine to the Gospel
The Non-Essential doctrine that plays like it’s centering on the gospel contradicts the gospel. It shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the gospel to include people in a false gospel that doesn’t save. I want to go to one place in the gospel of John, a pivotal place there, and then go several different directions to […]
Baptist Confessions and the Preservation of Scripture: A Video
I have relatively recently posted a video on the subject of Baptist Confessions and the preservation of Scripture. The video, which is largely based on my essay The Canonicity of the Received Bible Established from Reformation and Post-Reformation Baptist Confessions, available by clicking here, demonstrates that true churches have recognized and received as canonical the words […]
Can Islam Assimilate Into American Society or Is Islam Protected by the First Amendment? Pt. 2
Read Part One. Another question that would have lengthened the title is, is Islam a religion? In a discussion about whether the first amendment allows for the free exercise of Islam, one must consider the definition of free exercise and the definition of religion. It is a legitimate question to ask whether Islam itself should […]
Can Islam Assimilate Into American Society or Is Islam Protected by the First Amendment?
We know Islam isn’t biblical, even though I heard a Muslim scholar explain on the radio coming home the other night that if Jesus and Mohammed were together in the same room, they would get along famously. However, that is not the point of this post. I had already been asking myself, but the attack […]
Christian Internet Filtering, part 2 of 2
X3 Watch is another organization that offers inexpensive Internet accountability and filtering for computers and smartphones–essentially, all devices that have Internet access. Their basic package is only $6.99 a month or $64.99 a year ($5.41/month), and sometimes even lower prices come up if one explores their website a bit. These prices make X3 cheaper than […]
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