Vulgarity, Meaning, Evangelicalism, Politics, and Hypocrisy
For fulfilling its particular purpose, I don’t know of a better metaphor than the pot calling the kettle black. Our culture, our society, loves vulgarity, craves vulgarity, embraces vulgarity. Evangelicalism loves vulgarity. I think most of fundamentalism loves vulgarity. Very few people dislike vulgarity in the whole United States. Along comes Donald Trump […]
The Baptist Distinctives Are Not the Bible
Most of my readers probably know or have at least heard of the terminology, “the Baptist distinctives.” The two words, Baptist distinctives, answer the question, what distinguishes a New Testament church in contrast to other religious denominations? What sets a church apart as a New Testament church? This assumes Baptist churches alone are […]
Pay $12 For Unlimited Talk & Text on Your Cell Phone
The average cell phone bill in 2014 was $73 a month. Verizon customers paid an average of $148 a month, Sprint customers $144, AT&T $141, and T-Mobile $120 a month. (source). I pay $10 a month for uhlimited talk and text on my phone (c. $12 with taxes) with a company that I had never heard of […]
What Is Preaching? And What Is Not
Perhaps you’ve heard someone say he didn’t like someone’s “preachiness,” or he said, “stop being preachy.” Generally preachiness refers to stylistic aspects of someone’s speech. According to this understanding, someone may not have preached unless he takes on that speech quality. Certain men haven’t “preached” unless they get a “preachy” style of speech, a particular […]
College Class on Bible Texts and Versions, Manuscript Evidence, and Biblical Preservation
At Mukwonago Baptist Church we have started a course on Bible Texts and Versions, Manuscript Evidence, and Biblical Preservation. The course outline states: This course on Biblical preservation, Bible texts and versions, and manuscript evidence will examine God’s promises concerning the perfect preservation of Scripture and its perpetual availability to His churches. The fulfillment of […]
Judgment Must Begin in the House of God, pt. 2
Part One. We look around the nation and the world, and people aren’t doing what God says. I see one major contributing factor to the demise with one corollary. First, people want to do what they want to do, and they’re easier to get along with if you let them do what they want. […]
Judgment Must Begin in the House of God
The Apostle Peter wrote in his first epistle: “judgment must begin at the house of God” (4:17). We can talk about what is going on in the world, but the world is not responsible like the church is, which is why judgment begins there first. The church can’t expect the world to change, if it […]
Damning Danger in Asking Christ into Your Heart: The Testimony of Baptist Pastor Ovid Need, part 3 of 4
In a matter unrelated to this post, faithsaves.net has now passed 100,000 page views. Praise the Lord! Now on to the post. The Master Deceiver Remember, the enemy is a MASTER deceiver. A deceiver imitates and/or misuses truth; therefore, Satan counterfeits every spiritual gift of Romans 12 and Galatians 5. As a deceiver, his specialty is not […]
French Protestants and the Waldenses: The Church and the Text of the New Testament, pt. 2
Part One. The Bible and a true church never disappeared from the face of the earth. Scripture repudiates a total apostasy, but history also shows it didn’t happen. The French Protestants discovered this in real time before Calvin, before Protestants period, started over in Geneva. They weren’t alone. The Waldenses spread all over the French […]
French Protestants and the Waldenses: The Church and the Text of the New Testament, pt. 1
Once upon a time I thought about critical text and modern version proponents’ defamation of Desiderius Erasmus’s work of the first published edition of the Greek New Testament on March 1, 1516, almost 500 years ago today. Then I thought of Theodore Beza. I thought, why does the French Protestant, Beza, receive so little attention […]