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Is “If Something Is True” the Only Criteria for Using Hillsong and Bethel Music? Critique of a John MacArthur Answer
Like many others, I have a cell phone and when I pull up youtube, it feeds me what I might want to see and it showed me the above video, so I watched (by the way, three days after I published this, the original video was taken down, so I put this up in its […]
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 […]
Lack of Application of Scripture to Cultural Issues and Ecclesiastical Separation Now Haunting Conservative Evangelicals Like MacArthur
Scripture exhaustively and scrupulously furnishes and profits unto every good work (2 Timothy 3:16-17). For scripture to do this, it must be applied. The Bible doesn’t say, “Thou shalt not smoke crack pipes.” The Bible does make that point, but it must be applied to do so. Scripture applies to cultural issues. God wants His […]
If You Lived in Germany Shortly Before and During World War Two, Would You Have Sworn an Oath to Hitler?
A rule I established for my family and me as our children grew up was that we didn’t talk about television or movies in public. I had several scriptural reasons. I also made certain exceptions for myself, almost like the highway patrol that passes the speed limit sometimes. If I talk about a film that […]
‘I Disobey and Dishonor My Parents Because Jesus Saved Me’: More on Virtual Christianity
Part One Part Two In Romans 14:10 Paul says, “[F]or we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.” In 2 Corinthians 5:10, he says the similar: For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he […]
The “Tabernacle of Witness” and Objective Aesthetic Meaning
In Stephen’s sermon to the Sanhedrin in Acts 7, his theme is that God speaks and Israel’s leadership and predominately Israel doesn’t listen. They “do always resist the Holy Ghost: as [their] fathers did, so do [they]” (7:51) and “they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom […]
“Scandalous Grace,” “Jesus Plus Nothing,” and Very, Very Dangerous Christian GobbledyGook
We get Christianity from the Bible. What we get from the Bible then won’t disagree with historical, biblical teaching. I’m saying if it is Christianity, then it won’t be new. Christianity is what it is, the last part of that sentence overused but still true. What Christianity is comes from the Bible and agrees with […]
The Engagement of Others on the Modern Versions or King James Version
For the Apostle Paul to leave Judaism for faith in Christ, he had to count his old religion as dung. Paul’s life and lifestyle was woven into Judaism. It was a major break to say he had been wrong and now he was going an opposite direction and taking a different position. Today you don’t […]
Correcting False Doctrine Outside of Your Church: Permissible or Encouraged in Scripture?
The major criticism of this blog from what I’ll call, ‘my own,’ is what it might do to ‘our churches.’ Pastors might have to deal with the can of worms I open, not when they want to deal with it. For the record, I don’t care what biblical issue someone brings up, that our church […]
Church Membership and the Marriage Covenant
Marriage is a covenant that cannot be dissolved by any human authority. Jesus said in Matthew 19:6, “Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.” The condition of a marriage might not be good. He or she or both might neglect, disobey, or […]
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