How Contemporary Evangelical Worldview Hastened Defeat in Culture War
For awhile, evangelicals have protested binary thinking and expected nuance. No one tries that with gravity, because of the short term disadvantage, which is a dismount in the crunch position. Truth, goodness, and beauty operate like gravity because they proceed from the same source: God. The passengers of Germanwings Flight 9525 last week recognized […]
Recognizing the Contradictions: Same Sex Marriage and the First Amendment
There is an almost entire other article added to this one that deals with Apple CEO Tim Cook’s editorial at the Washington Post. Don’t miss it. Maybe I shouldn’t, but I marvel at what I see happening around Indiana’s recently passed Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which essentially says that a state or local government action […]
Hannah W. Smith, erotic “Spirit baptism” and the occult: part 12 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 broadness of the Mount-Temples’s views embraced not only Irvingism, continuationism, and […]
A Missionary Prayer Letter: An Evaluation
On a regular basis, a missionary sends me his e-prayer-letter. Here is a recent one without some of the identifying details and extraneous information: 1. . . . . A number of decisions were made at the end of the service. [Name] returned to church. She now lives and works in [Place]. She realized her […]
Those Who Deny Warfieldian Inerrancy
Over a century ago, evangelicals went back to the drawing board on the doctrine of scripture. Scripture itself, of course, is unassailable. It is what it is. It is God’s Word. When it says what it is, that’s what it is, even if someone reinvents or reframes what it is. However, the biblical and […]
Dangers in Samaritan Ministries, Part 3
Dangers in Samaritan Ministries part 1 Dangers in Samaritan Ministries part 2 Health Threats from Samaritan Ministries part 1 Health Threats from Samaritan Ministries part 2 I still think that the concept of believers sharing medical needs, the idea that lies behind Samaritan Ministries, is tremendous. There is no doubt in my mind that Samaritan […]
Who Is the Audience of the Singing and Playing in Church?
The audience for most of the music for evangelicalism and fundamentalism is people — do people like it? I’m saying, the people versus God. I’m not saying they don’t consider God at all, but that people are what they most regard with their music. Most have stopped fighting the idea that there is a music […]
Hannah W. Smith, the Continuation of Miraculous Gifts, and the Root of Keswick at the Broadlands Conventions: part 11 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: “Scriptural cessationism, consequently, was rejected at the Broadlands Conferences for continuationism.” […]
A Wicked Idea, Actually Satanic Lie, That You Cannot Judge Things
Almost all obedience to the Bible requires an application of scriptural implication. I’ve talked about it a lot here. For instance, God’s Word does not say, “Thou shalt not smoke crack pipes,” but that does not mean the Bible doesn’t prohibit smoking crack. We can judge things. The Bible contains teaching about dress, clothing, or […]
Summit on Inerrancy: Not a Consistent, Therefore, Christian Worldview
As I write this, the NY Times publishes an article entitled, “Why Our Children Don’t Think There Are Moral Facts.” This year in our school, I’m teaching biblical worldview, and for awhile, I have been both establishing and explaining the bifurcation of truth in the world. I thought that the NY Times article titled it […]