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Making the Old Paradigm the New Paradigm for “Full Time” Ministry
Church leaders need to be adjusting the thinking of their leaders back to a biblical and historical way of supporting “full time” ministers. I put “full time” in quotations because every Christian is full time in the Ephesians 4:1 sense, which is the sense in the Bible. We’ve been called, that is, saved unto a […]
Where to Live, Life, and the Choice of a Church
I would not live somewhere if there wasn’t a good church there. I understand that some of you readers truly do not have a choice. You can’t move because your husband or father has you in a particular church or at least in area where there isn’t a very good church. I think that more […]
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
This entire 21-part study appears on the FaithSaves.net website in a study entitled “Hannah Whitall Smith: Higher Life Writer, Speaker on Sanctification, Developer of the Keswick Theology, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic.” Click here to read the entire study. Search for: “Hannah W. Smith chronicled Dr. Foster’s communication of his views to herself and another […]
A Gay Marriage Case Study: Whether It Hurts Someone Else Deciding Whether It Is Right
As I’ve listened to some of the reaction to the announcement of the United States Supreme Court decision to legalize gay marriage (I’m using the term “gay,” not out of preference, but because I think it will allow filtered internet to get through), in almost every case, you hear the argument that it doesn’t hurt […]
Evangelicals and Fundamentalists, You Capitulated On Gender Design Distinction, So Is the Male Skirt a Church Discipline Issue?
I’m pretty sure that when evangelicals and fundamentalists started ignoring women in pants, they did not foresee the male skirt. It’s here now. Society itself reacted against pants on women. Even when society started accepting, Christians opposed. Then Christians accepted, digging for some way to justify the activity. Society reacted against the male skirt. […]
The Lake of Fire: Eternal Torment or Annihilation / Soul-Sleep?
The content of this post is now online here: The Lake of Fire in the Book of Revelation: Eternal Torment, not Annihilation or “Soul-Sleep” Please click on that link to read this study. Thank you.
Gospel Minimization: Is Paul Saying in 1 Corinthians 15 that the Gospel Is Merely the Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Christ?
Evangelicals gain a larger coalition by first minimizing doctrine, often reducing to the gospel, and once there, second, by minimizing the gospel. Many argue for unity around the gospel and then negotiate over the essentials of the gospel. Very often, 1 Corinthians 15:3-4 becomes a talking point, because there one can abridge the gospel to […]
Our Church Website and Available Sermons
Our church website doesn’t have a tremendous number of bells and whistles, but there’s enough there for someone to decide whether we are a biblical church. We are also preparing to have a very in depth church doctrinal statement there that is a work in progress. Right now you can see the calendar for the […]
John 6: Church Growth Methods and Other Sins, pt. 2
Part One When we’re all done on earth, we will wish we would have paid more attention to what God’s Word says, as in passages like John 6. The Bible isn’t a play thing to twist into what we want. It is the basis for what we believe and do. At the end of John […]
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
This entire 21-part study appears on the FaithSaves.net website in a study entitled “Hannah Whitall Smith: Higher Life Writer, Speaker on Sanctification, Developer of the Keswick Theology, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic.” Click here to read the entire study. Search for: “Dr. Foster, while “a lifelong Methodist,” was “interdenominational” in his religious spirit.” to read […]
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