Christians Suing Christians: Is it Biblical?
Relatively recently I was contacted by someone who is, I trust, a genuine Christian and a like-minded Baptist. He had been in a difficult situation where, from his account of the matter, the pastor who had been called had acted very improperly and had essentially taken over the church and forced out those that did […]
Separation and Patience
Some people like to think that separatists love separating to the degree that they are looking to separate. A true separatist looks to unify, but it must be unity, that is, it must unify on and in the truth. Truth is the basis for unity and separation. You try to unify and if it doesn’t […]
Megyn Kelly and the Concept of the Female Role Model
Unless you just don’t keep up, and perhaps congratulations are due anyone who doesn’t, then you have heard about the media enhanced conflict between Fox News personality Megyn Kelly and businessman and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. One narrative encouraged by Trump opponents says he dodges a tough confrontation or question from Megyn Kelly out […]
Damning Danger in Asking Christ into Your Heart: The Testimony of Baptist Pastor Ovid Need, part 2 of 4
In a futile attempt to justify the perverted gospel, there are many verses offered by the devil which are commonly wrested from their context: “Behold I stand at the door and knock…” [Rev 3:20]. Notice the context is speaking to a church with no reference at all to salvation; therefore, any effort to make it […]
Trump, Meaning, and Evangelicalism
Different title today, but this post relates to Monday’s. Individual Americans look at their presidential races through different lenses. The spectacle factory couldn’t hold all the glass necessary for this 2016 contest. To cut to the chase, let’s go right to Trump. One poll says 37% of white evangelicals support him. Support. You may have […]
Capitulation to Meaning Obliviousness: A Case of Berkeley and Oakland
Last Saturday I joined my wife in taking my youngest daughter down to Oakland for orchestra rehearsal at Laney College with the Berkeley Youth Orchestra. We had three parts to our plan, the first being to stop in at a bakery in Oakland we’d not visited, walk around Lake Merritt in downtown Oakland, and then […]
Southern Baptist Evangelism and Unregenerate Evangelicals
I receive in the mail the Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary Messenger, the free periodical of this Southern Baptist seminary. The Winter 2015 issue was entitled: “Focus on Evangelism.” On page 5, the “Practical Missions Report” indicates that all seminary students at the institution between August 2015 and November 2015 witnessed to 1,725 people. That does […]
The Problem among Independent Baptists with the Gospel, pt. 2
Pre-Part. Part One. The gospel isn’t a range of options between a and b. It’s either a or b. It’s not one or the other that contradict each other, that both could be right. There is no “both could be right” with the gospel. Offering a range is convenient for holding together a coalition, […]
The Problem among Independent Baptists with the Gospel
Last week, I wrote a snoozer post on destructive fellowship in fundamentalism, and emphasized the accommodation or capitulation to something less than a true gospel or a false gospel. My point was that the gospel must come into consideration for fellowship with fundamentalism if fundamentalism is even fundamentalism. If fundamentalism is supposed to be militant, […]
Proof that the Bible is the Word of God from the Book of Daniel
Dear brethren, I have revised and expanded an apologetic composition explaining the evidence for the Bible as the Word of God from the predictive prophecies in the book of Daniel. The occasion for the expansion was my recent debate with Dan Barker of the Freedom From Religion Foundation in conjunction with our church’s campus ministry […]