Faith Is Not A Work
Before I launch into today’s obsession (which I’ve been told must be myself looking to disabuse everyone else in the world of their errors, as I cloister in a pristine perch, breathing pure spiritual air), I refer you to an amazing article by David Mamet, whom some of you might recognize as an excellent wordsmith. […]
“The just shall live by faith”— A Study of the Relationship of Faith to Salvation in its Justifying, Sanctifying, and Glorifying Fulness, part 1
The post below is the first, Lord willing, of a series I will do on the relationship of faith and salvation. The study took me a number of months, is part of my Ph. D. dissertation, and was spiritually refreshing and a definite blessing. I wanted to first note, however, that Tuesday was the 40th […]
R.I.P. Separation in Fundamentalism
Attending a fundamentalist college, I heard some teaching about separation. In hindsight, it wasn’t anything clear or systematic. I was never required to read one book on it. Now I know that there was little written on it anyway, maybe one book that dealt with it in any serious way, written by Ernest Pickering (since […]
Lance Armstrong, Yawn: Or the Parallel Between Him and Fundagelicals
Before you read this post, since I don’t come in usually until Monday, please go to Thomas Ross’s new website. Thomas Ross is a rare scholar. He’s far more written than almost anyone already, except for maybe a very few, in all of fundamentalism. I would put him up against any young (or even older) […]
Miscellaneous Notices
I am delighted to announce that, thanks to the help of a brother at Mukwonago Baptist Church, my two websites, the evangelistic page What Must I Do to be Saved? and the Christian page, Theological Compositions, are going to have their resources available at the more user-friendly page http://faithsaves.net. Most of the evangelistic resources are […]
Ecstasy Rampant in Evangelicalism (and Fundamentalism)
Over a year ago, I did a two part series in which I said that evangelicalism and fundamentalism were teeming with ecstatic and demonic influence (part one, part two). This was a major issue at Corinth, so it’s been around for a long time. After all, we do wrestle against spiritual wickedness. Confusing spirituality is […]
David’s Killer Census as a Paradigm for Applying Scripture
You know the passage that says taking a census is wrong. Remember? Right. Nothing in the Bible says taking a census is wrong. Yet David was wrong for taking a census in 1 Chronicles 21. God killed 70,000 in Israel with pestilence because of David’s census taking. Other census were taken without such a […]
Teaching and Preaching Position
Dear Brethren, As I am getting to the end of my Ph. D. studies, I am looking for the Lord’s direction about a place where I can teach the Word of God at a college and/or seminary level, as well as preach, in a more full-time way than I am currently doing as an adjunct […]
Today’s Arguing that Isn’t Concerned about the Truth
The debate that occurred between Alex Jones and Piers Morgan on CNN has reminded me about the way people argue today. The point should be to know, come to, or defend the truth, but it isn’t in many cases today. I’m not sure Piers Morgan believes what he’s saying himself. I had never heard of […]