Baptist the Dog: A Christian Children’s Story
My wife has written a number of childrens’ stories. While I am doubtless biased, I think they are good, and the children who have read them have enjoyed them. I intend to post them on my website, Lord willing. I have posted one called Baptist, about a doggie that comes to the Roberts’ farm and […]
The Falsely So-Called Science, Yet Popular Psychobabble: Introduction
“Over half of psychology studies fail reproducibility test.” “Scientists replicated 100 psychology studies, and fewer than half got the same results.” “An ambitious effort to replicate 100 research findings in psychology ended last week — and the data look worrying. Results posted online on 24 April, which have not yet been peer-reviewed, suggest that key […]
Art: What Changes?
Part One — “Artists” Our church doesn’t use the following psalter, but it’s available at Psalters Online. I chose, The Book of Psalms in an English Metrical Version, founded on the basis of the Authorized Bible Translation and Compared with the Original Hebrew, by Richard Mant. Here is Psalm 106:11-22 from this psalter, a versification […]
“Artists”
The word “artist” is like the word “culture” — in common usage, its meaning has disappeared. People don’t know what they mean, when they are saying it. The knock-off entertainers sure aren’t artists, no matter how many times someone says they are. God is the prototypical Artist. Art proceeds from the Bible in definition like […]
Jessie Penn-Lewis: Her Inspired Writings (part 6 of 22)
The content of this post is now available in the study of: 1.) Evan Roberts 2.) The Welsh Revival of 1904-1905 3.) Jessie Penn-Lewis on the faithsaves.net website. Please click on the people above to view the study. On the FaithSaves website the PDF files may be easiest to read. You are also encouraged […]
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 […]
The Seeds of Apostasy: A Personification of Heresy
Gaius wasn’t someone Diotrephes would tolerate, because Gaius was someone the Apostle John loved (3 John 1:1), who walked in the truth (1:3). When Gaius came along, he would not be accepted into the midst of the church to which John had written according to his third epistle (3 John 1:9a). Diotrephes in 3 John […]
Knowing the Trinity: Practical Thoughts for Daily Life, by Ryan M. McGraw: A Review
Dr. Ryan M. McGraw has written a valuable book entitled Knowing the Trinity: Practical Thoughts for Daily Life (Lancaster, PA: Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, 2017). (Amazon affiliate link.) I asked (and received) a review copy of the book and believe that it is a valuable book on the Christian’s fellowship with the Triune God. Too many […]
Who Is Semipelagian? Does Someone Need to Be a Calvinist Not to Be Semipelagian?
Church historians will say that a big part of the history of the church is a reaction to major heresies or at least strains of heresy that caused major problems in the church. The true church starts with the truth, and a heresy would be a deviation or detour off that path. A heresy would […]
Selective Relativism: Love Isn’t Acceptance or Toleration
In 2011 I attended incognito the Evangelical Theological Society meeting in San Francisco, and listened to Robert P. George in a session entitled, “Ethics in an Age of Relativism.” He described students in general in today’s colleges and universities as selectively relativistic. They become very absolute usually only when they judge a personal offense. They […]