Inerrancy Summit, Shepherds Conference, 2015: Keith and Kristyn Getty
Keith and Kristyn Getty lead the music at the summit on inerrancy in Southern California for 2015. I didn’t know until I started watching one of the sessions on livestream, but I’ve got to comment. I knew the Gettys were popular with conservative evangelicals and many fundamentalists, but I had never heard them live or […]
Is the Gospel Being Preached to Everyone Where You Are?
Twenty-seven years ago when my wife and I traveled in a U-Haul truck to the San Francisco Bay Area without a stick of furniture, we came to preach the gospel in an area where the gospel had not been preached. Going to preach the gospel is a different mentality than going to start a church. […]
Hannah W. Smith, occult spiritualism, and the Keswick precursor Conventions at Broadlands: part 10 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic
This entire 21-part study appears on the FaithSaves.net website in a study entitled “Hannah Whitall Smith: Higher Life Writer, Speaker on Sanctification, Developer of the Keswick Theology, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic.” Click here to read the entire study. Search for: “The advance of “Christian Socialism” was also part of the Mount-Temples’s spirituality.” […]
Obvious Disconnects for Evangelicals and Inerrancy
When I was in jr. high, a friend of mine was wearing a completely white suit with white shirt, white tie, and white shoes to church, and then he spilled his little cup of grape juice from the Lord’s Table on himself. It was just a little cup, but it was so obvious. How could […]
WORD OF TRUTH CONFERENCE, 2015
The Word of Truth Conference at Bethel Baptist Church is November 11-15, Wednesday to Sunday again this year, beginning on Wednesday evening with morning sessions Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. For anyone who wants to come, Bethel will help with meals and very limited housing on a first come, first serve, basis. The theme of this […]
The Inspired Books of Seventh-Day Adventists, Mormons, Christian Scientists, Muslims, and Others
Having grown up in a non-Christian home, and having done a decent amount of work in Christian apologetics and having spoken to many people of all sorts of backgrounds, from atheists, agnostics, materialists, communists, etc., the evidence for the Bible is irrefutable and incredibly powerful. (For example, see the evidence here and here.) The […]
Political Candidates and the Evolution Question
The liberal news media plays a political ‘gotcha’ game with conservative or even just Republican candidates that they do not with liberal or even just Democrat candidates. They did this last week (Feb 11, 2015) to thrice elected governor of Wisconsin and possible 2016 Republican presidential candidate, Scott Walker, when they asked what he believed […]
I Don’t Choose What Distinguishes Our Church, But It Still Does
Our church believes in one God, Who Is Three Persons — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. That belief distinguishes us from others, but I didn’t choose that it would distinguish us. We believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God. The Bible is our sole authority for faith and practice. Those qualities distinguish us […]
Hannah W. Smith and Keswick Precursor Conventions at Broadlands: part 9 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic
This entire 21-part study appears on the FaithSaves.net website in a study entitled “Hannah Whitall Smith: Higher Life Writer, Speaker on Sanctification, Developer of the Keswick Theology, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic.” Click here to read the entire study. Search for: “Broadlands ecumenicalism was held together, not by universalism only, but by the […]
Bribery and Pandering: Ties that Bind Modern Church Growth (that neither Jesus nor the Apostles Used), pt. 2
I discovered I’d already written on this part of the two (here as well). When I think of pandering, normally I imagine what political candidates do to win voters. They invent and reinvent themselves to conform to whatever group they’re campaigning. I don’t remember the word “demographic” back as I grew up, but now a population […]