An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder’s “Landmarkism”, pt. 8: What Marks a True, Actual Church?
Part 7 has links to parts 1-6, so you can go there from here and get everything that way. Most of what is titled “Landmarkism” in Kevin Bauder’s Baptist Distinctives book is just biblical and historical belief and practice. It didn’t originate with the men who began to be called “Landmarkers” in the mid 19th […]
“Abide in Me,” John 15:1-8: Saved or Unsaved, Not Christian or Better Christian
What did Jesus mean when He said to the eleven on their way from the upper room to the garden, “Abide in me”? There are two very different views propagated, and even as you read this post, you might not comprehend it yet. To many, maybe even most professing Christians, “abide in me,” is some […]
A Meditation upon Matthew 25:21, 23: “His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. . . . His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.”
“His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. . . . His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over […]
Psalm 119, The Hate Psalm, and the Practice of Contemporary Christianity
You have biblical love chapters, 1 Corinthians 13 and 1 John 4. For every biblical love, there is a biblical hate, as in you cannot love health without hating disease. This got my attention recently as we have been singing through Psalm 119 in our psalters in our Sunday evening service. The hate came to […]
Are Passages on Old Testament Strangers A Legitimate Basis for Taking Refugees into the Country?
The ceremonial and judicial laws of the Old Testament do not mandate positions for modern government or church policy. They apply in certain ways today, but not like they did to ancient Israel. With this regard, I draw your attention to professing Christian organizations that use the statutes or precepts of Mosaic law to push […]
Keswick’s Unintelligibility: in Keswick’s Errors–an Analysis and Critique of So Great Salvation by Stephen Barabas, part 16 of 17
The content of this post is now available at the link viewable by clicking here. It combines all the parts of this series of blog posts in one file. Please view the material at that link. This part covers from the words: “Keswick unbiblically depreciates the importance of sanctification as a process, as progressive growth. […]
Travel Ban Roll-Out Versus Oroville Dam Evacuation
Want to understand the degree of bias there is in the media and in our communications institutions, which really includes schools? I think 109 were inconvenienced in their travel situations with the travel ban, and the media goes bonkers to make Trump look incompetent. Here in the People’s Republic of California, we have to evacuate […]
An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder’s “Landmarkism”, pt. 7: What Marks a True, Actual Church?
Parts One, Two, Three, Four, Five, and Six It’s now been a few months since I last wrote in my analysis of one chapter, “Landmarkism,” in a book, Baptist Distinctives, by Kevin Bauder. The next section in this chapter he entitles, “Baptists and Other Denominations.” Bauder sees what he identifies as Landmarkism as having a […]
The Interpretation of Trump’s Travel Ban and the Interpretation of Scripture
Very big in the news, maybe even huge, has been the travel ban, executive order, issued by President Trump (yes, he’s the president). Executive orders are supposed to be constitutional. I was going to write, “must be constitutional,” but in light of the condition of the judiciary of the United States, it is better right […]
The Budwig Protocol: Deadly Cancer Quackery
The Budwig protocol is, simply, an attempt to cure all types of cancer by eating things like cottage cheese, flaxseed oil, and various fruits and vegetables. While a healthful diet is a wonderful thing, the Budwig protocol simply does not cure cancer. Thinking it will is adopting cancer quackery and turns curable cancer into an […]