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A Leaking Gospel
If the true gospel was a ship, it would be airtight, never to be sunk. It always would do what it was supposed to do, because the gospel is of God. It is His good news. He gave it to mankind. As God’s creation, the gospel will succeed at what God intended it. The gospel […]
“Negotiable Matters of Indifference”
I read this in a sampling of a new book, Risking the Truth, edited by Martin Downes. In this chapter, Martin Downes interviews Carl Trueman, Professor of Historical Theology and Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Downes: Why have evangelicals reduced the great Protestant confessions down to minimal statements? Trueman: Because evangelicalism, as […]
Important Thoughts for Human Beings part one
Here’s an important thought for all human beings. You can judge God. But it’s not going to matter. He’s God. What’s important for you is, listen up, how God judges you. And because of that, the vital ingredient in all of this is the truth. Human beings, get this: be concerned about what the truth […]
Christmas in the Apocalypse
At the end of Revelation 11, we see the seventh trumpet of judgment blown. Heaven rejoices. Earth rages. God judges. But we don’t get the actual content of the trumpet until Revelation 15. Revelation 12 to 14 relate the Satanic view of the tribulation period on earth. The rest of the book shifts back and […]
“Not Given to Much Wine” and Abstaining from Alcohol
More controversy seems to exist than ever in churches over the drinking of alcoholic beverages. If I say it isn’t a difficult subject, I’ll be castigated, but I’m going to say it: “I don’t think it is a difficult subject”—at least not until recently. We’ve got more permissible drinkers than ever in evangelical churches. I […]
Flock Teaching
God uses metaphors in Scripture as a figure of speech to communicate His truth. In some prominent passages, New Testament authors use the “flock” analogy as one of these pictures to portray a particular theological concept. “Flock,” of course, starts with an agrarian reality with actual sheep, as seen in the nativity text in Luke […]
Since Jesus Sang In the Church, Well….
I don’t think that Jay Adams believes that the church started until Pentecost, like most Protestants as himself, so how did Jesus sing in the church, as seen in Hebrews 2:12? Jay Adams uses an example of Jesus singing. OK. He sang in the church. If Jesus sang in the church, then the church was […]
Expecting Pastors to Pastor
Evangelicals and fundamentalists still judge success by size of congregation, even most young fundamentalists who grew up with and are critical of the Hyles movement. Their favorites pastor large churches and/or publish books. They are not evaluated mainly by whether or not they obey Scripture. Specifically, they are not judged based upon the pastoral epistles, […]
Church Growth Hypocrisy
John MacArthur has written several volumes exposing and refuting unscriptural church growth methodologies (Ashamed of the Gospel, Hard to Believe, Truth War, Our Sufficiency in Christ, etc.). Much of what he has written is excellent. In the last twenty years, when an unbiblical trend or fad has become popular, MacArthur has dealt with it by […]
Epistemology and the History of the Church
Epistemology is the branch of science concerned with “how we know what we know?” What can we trust as an accurate source of knowledge? Scripture is the final arbiter of all truth claims. The first verse that comes to mind is James 1:17: Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh […]
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