Music Style Isn’t a Christian Liberty (part four)
Part One Part Two Part Three This series, now in part four, mixes two true aspects of the perpetual worship of a believer that reinforces the proposition that musical style is not a Christian liberty. The first is the individual worship that takes up the entire life of a believer. He does all […]
Music Style Isn’t a Christian Liberty (part three)
Part One Part Two Attraction of Musical Style I compare biblical analysis, uncovering, of musical style, to taking away your dog’s food bowl. He’s man’s best friend, but he will growl and maybe bite if you try to take away his chow. It is a lust issue. People react with emotion, very often anger, […]
Why Haven’t Written Many Books, But Have Written Much Online
Books Sound Music or Sounding Brass In 1996, I wrote the book, Sound Music or Sounding Brass: The Issue of Biblically Godly Music. I won’t get into the details as to why I wrote it, but that was my first book. After writing it, I found out that for me writing a book was the […]
Music Style Isn’t a Christian Liberty (part two)
Part One People would like the music issue for churches to go away. They can take various avenues to accomplish this, one of which is by making musical style a Christian liberty. A progression (or regression) occurred to get here. It started a long time ago. Regression of Musical Style One, many musical styles are […]
Music Style Isn’t a Christian Liberty
Music Has Meaning and It Is Moral or Immoral One could argue that musicians are the most popular people in the world. Three of the most followed people on instagram are musicians, four of the top ten on twitter (X). Rick Warren in his Purpose Driven Church book says that choice of music style for […]
God and His Gospel Preaching to Cain, Who Rejects It
Genesis 4 chronicles the beginnings for the first family after the fall of man into sin. The first couple of verses portray positives for the parents and their children. 1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. 2 And she […]
Crucial to a Gospel Presentation: Explain Belief (part eight)
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six Part Seven Except a Man Be Born Again Jesus said, “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3). Someone cannot see the kingdom of God unless he is born again. At least two ideas exist here. […]
The Time In Which We Live in 2025
Eras or Epochs Many describe this era or epoch of time to be one of chaos and turmoil. It sends tremors into the present world order. The argument against an obvious shift in culture is its destabilization. What is really happening today? When you open your Bible to its last book, Revelation, you see the […]
Does Doctrine Matter?
President James Monroe on December 2, 1823 first communicated the “Monroe Doctrine” in his State of the Union address to Congress. The Monroe Doctrine viewed any foreign intervention in the Western Hemisphere, the Americas, as a potentially hostile act against the United States. One might ask Spain and Japan whether the Monroe Doctrine matters. These […]
The Historical Story of External Factors Perverting the Meaning of Church (part three)
Part One Part Two Evidence in the New Testament As you read through the New Testament, you see early attacks inside and outside of the church that correspond to what happened at that juncture of history in the world. Revelation 2 and 3 provide a good example of how churches in the first century […]
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