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Straining at Gnats, Rearranging Deck Chairs, Fiddling While Rome Burns, and Trading Your Birthright for a Mess of Pottage
Can you agree that life is seventy to a hundred years, sometime less and very seldom more, and it goes by fast? We know it goes by exactly sixty seconds a minute, but the point is what James wrote: life is a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. On the […]
Dealing with Typical Atheist Arguments Against God As Represented by the Late Christopher Hitchens
At one point about a decade ago, before he died at age 62 of esophageal cancer, Christopher Hitchens was included in a group of atheists titled, the four horsemen, ironically after the characters in Revelation 6. They were also associated with what was termed, new atheism, still around today. Hitchens had written a book, God Is Not Great, mainly a […]
The Tragedy of Young Women Taking Their Clothes Off in Public
One of the earliest moments of the whole Bible is God clothing the man and woman with a modest garment as opposed to nudity and their fig leaves. Their coats God made are a Hebrew word for tunic all the way to the floor and long sleeves. This is the same word used to describe […]
Is Piercing One’s Self or Having One’s Self Pierced Compatible with God?
In the history of the world and then the more specific history of the United States, new beliefs and practice begin that differ from what was previously believed and practiced. Those beliefs and practices are either corrections or improvements to what was previously occurring or they are perversions, corruptions, or deterioration to or from what […]
Leviticus 10:8-11 and Its Conformity to the Two Wine View
It’s obvious in scripture that some wine is permissible to drink and other is not. This relates to alcohol. Scripture prohibits alcohol (Proverbs 23:29-35). However, all wine and strong drink is prohibited to the priesthood in the performance of their duties. I’m reading through the Bible twice this year and moving through it the first […]
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 […]
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