Church Decrease Movement (CDM): Faithful Numerical Church Decrease
Numerical growth of a church isn’t hard. Most of the people I’ve met who see swift numerical growth aren’t either smart or knowledgeable. They haven’t discovered some secret. They shouldn’t be rewarded, as they very often are. Churches with big numbers are the most emulated in the United States. Their tactics are also the most […]
Evan Roberts and the Rise of Pentecostalism in Britain, Part 16 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 […]
Lead, Guide,and Direct: What is This?
Part One Part Two Part Three True or not, whatever Christianity you grew up with had a lot of influence on what you believe and practice. I wasn’t taught much to anything on biblical prayer. From my memory, it wasn’t very good — a lot of “be with me,” “bless so-and-so and bless so-and-so,” “help […]
Brett Kavanaugh: Alcohol and the Party Culture
Last Thursday, Brett Kavanaugh, Supreme Court justice nominee, said about his relationship to alcohol: Yes we drank beer, my friends and I, boys and girls. Yes, we drank beer, I like beer, I still like beer, we drank beer. The drinking age, as I noted, was 18, so the seniors were legal, senior year in […]
The Trip to Europe Continued (Eighteenth Post In Total)
One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Eleven Twelve Thirteen Fourteen Fifteen Sixteen Seventeen On June 13, 2018, my wife, two youngest daughters, and I arose and walked the 7 or 8 minutes to the Mestre, Italy train station to catch ours to Rome. We left around 9am for about a 1pm […]
The Septuagint (LXX) Chronology in Genesis 5 and 11: Corrupt and Indefensible
Recently a friend of mine asked me to evaluate the following paper: Smith, H.B., Jr. 2018. The case for the Septuagint’s chronology in Genesis 5 and 11. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Creationism, ed. J.H. Whitmore, pp. 117–132. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Creation Science Fellowship. The author is Associates for Biblical Research’s lead researcher for […]
The Oracle of Delphi, Preaching, Power, and Sensing God
Part One Part Two In upper central Greece along the slope of Mount Parnassus resided the ancient city of Delphi. The ancient Greeks considered Delphi to be the center of the world, the world personified by the mother earth goddess, Gaia, and Delphi her navel. Delphi comes from a Greek root, which means “womb.” […]
Concocted Christianity
When I was young in a small Indiana farming community, off and on we owned various black and white televisions and sometimes watched Wide World of Sports on Saturday with host Jim McKay. Then I first saw the Harlem Globetrotters play, Meadowlark Lemon and Curly Neal. They always played the New Jersey Generals, and won […]
The Trip to Europe Continued (Seventeenth Post In Total)
One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Eleven Twelve Thirteen Fourteen Fifteen Sixteen Venice has a permanent population of 55,000 and 20 million visitors a year. At most moments, far more tourists dwell there than permanent inhabitants. It’s not really built for the number of people who are normally there. I’m glad […]
Evan Roberts: Deceived by Satan, Part 15 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 […]