Home » Uncategorized (Page 14)
Category Archives: Uncategorized
No Daisy Dukes In the Kingdom: Professing Christians Who Don’t Want to Go to Hell But They Don’t Like the Kingdom of God Either
In His model prayer, the Lord Jesus Christ gave the pattern of praying, “Thy kingdom come,” an imperative of request. True believers will ask for God’s kingdom to come. They want it. The kingdom of God isn’t some arbitrary kingdom like Vulgaria in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. It is a particular, defined kingdom. Jesus is […]
Repentance: What it is: Bible Study 5B in “How Do I Receive the Gospel?”
Last week I posted “Repentance: What it is Not: Bible Study 5A, ‘How Do I Receive the Gospel?’” This week I am posting part 5B, on true repentance. Parts #1-3 of the foundational Bible study were posted in the past, while part #4, on the Person and work of Christ, is not yet ready to go […]
The Easiest People In the World To Fool
The Bible doesn’t make a point blank statement to describe the people easiest in the world to fool — “they are. . . .” You can cull this information from a cumulative view of all of scripture though. On top of that, it has been my observation. The phrase, “a sucker is born every minute,” […]
COVID-19 and Churches Subject to the Higher Powers of Romans 13
Government response to COVID-19 challenged Christian thinking on Romans 13 and other like New Testament passages. In other terms, it sharpened ecclesiology. One might call it a test or trial that aided sanctification. In the middle of this test, growth occurs. A church might look and act differently in a matter of months and say […]
Repentance: What it is Not: Bible Study 5A, “How Do I Receive the Gospel?”
In past weeks I have posted parts #1-3 of the foundational Bible study series designed to explain the gospel carefully to the unconverted. Part #4, on the Person and work of Christ, is not yet ready to go live, but part 5A and B are live (and, Lord willing, 5C will be live shortly). Much […]
Sustainability
Through all my thirty-three years of living in California, I often heard the word “sustainability.” It means “to exist constantly.” Only God has existed constantly (Psalm 90:2). God alone sustains the whole universe, all matter and space, and then the earth. Speaking of Jesus, John writes (John 1:3): All things were made by him; and […]
Is The Orthodox Church a False Church Within the True Church?
In the mid 1960s, Walter Martin became the first “Bible Answer Man,” exposing cults and false religions from all over the world. In 1989, when Martin died, Hank Hanegraff became the new “Bible Answer Man,” sort of like the line of the Dread Pirate Roberts in The Princess Bride. Someone else can become “The Bible […]
What Does God Want From Me? God’s Law, His Perfect Standard: Bible Study 3
On the last few Fridays I have posted Bible study #1: “What is the Bible?” (part 1B) and study #2, “Who is God?” The video for part 3, “What does God want from me?” is embedded below. The studies can be accessed on the Bible studies page on my website here or on YouTube (link to part […]
Is Kneeling at the Flag and During the National Anthem Disrespectful to the Flag?
What’s the point of kneeling at the flag and during the national anthem if it isn’t disrespect? Of course it is disrespect. The people doing it say that they are misunderstood. A lot is written about this, so it’s not hard to hear the point of kneeling. The kneelers are protesting systemic police brutality against […]
Another Quixotic Whiff for Mark Ward on the Bible and Its Preservation
With full disclaimer, from my childhood I recall Gilligan and the fearless crew on the uncharted desert isle. Mr. Howell, the Professor, and Skipper are dressed as women in an attempt to fool some visiting natives looking for a “white goddess” to throw into their volcano. Not expecting any of those three to pull it […]
Recent Comments