Lure Them In, pt. 5
Gospel-centeredness and my “lure them in” series dovetailed in my mind on Tuesday this week after my Monday post. The gospel is the power of God unto salvation, not a means to lure. So how could the gospel relate to luring them in? The popular discussion concerns whether you’re center bound (gospel centered) or boundary driven. I […]
Gospel-Centeredness and Moralism
We got into a little bit of a discussion about gospel-centered preaching here in the comment section in the previous few weeks, but thoughts about gospel-centeredness have crossed my mind a lot recently. And then my family and I were on vacation last week where we usually go and attended the church we usually attend […]
Repentance Defended Against Antinomian Heresy: A Brief Defense of the Indubitable Biblical Fact that Repentance is a Change of Mind that Always Results in a Change of Action, part 2
New Testament usage provides crystal-clear evidence for repentance as a change of mind that results in a change of action. Consider the following representative texts with metanoeo: Matthew 12:41 The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a […]
Popular Evangelical Historian on Truth Serum about the Church
Carl Trueman, professor of historical theology at Westminster Theological Seminary, department chair of Church History, author, and Cornerstone Presbyterian Church pastor, is very popular with conservative evangelicals—highly respected. With that as a first consideration, if you didn’t know already because you are not a regular reader of my blog here or when I wrote constantly […]
Election 2012: Do Rich People Like Romney Really Pay Less Taxes?
In order to win the election, the Obama-Biden campaign is counting an even greater amount of stupidity than normal from the American population. Part of the no-voter ID push of the democrat party is counting on people who are too stupid or lazy to get a free voter ID. Those kind of people are […]
Repentance Defended Against Antinomian Heresy: A Brief Defense of the Indubitable Biblical Fact that Repentance is a Change of Mind that Always Results in a Change of Action, part 1
For approximately the first two-thousand years of Baptist history, Baptist churches—the churches established by the Lord Jesus Christ—have defended the fact that when a lost sinner repents and is born again, a change of action will necessarily follow. The fact that repentance is a change of mind that results in a change of action is […]
The Worldview of Romney and Ryan and the 2012 Presidential Election
Romney and Ryan are the first non-Protestant combination Presidential and Vice-Presidential ticket in the history of American elections. America has been characteristically a Baptist/Protestant country, much of which stems from what was left in Europe. This flies in the face of a national history-long trend. I actually don’t think that President Obama and Vice President […]
Lure Them In, pt. 4
Part One Part Two Part Three Jesus used a fishing metaphor to describe evangelism. In Matthew 4:19, He said, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” I’ve noticed that people then take that analogy and go further with it than what Jesus does. They talk about “findin’ good fishin’ spots,” “spots where […]
Representative Quotations from the Earliest Christian Writings— Are These Men Trinitarians or Arians?
This is a continuation of part 4 here. The entire study, under the title Did the Trinity Come from Paganism? is available here and here. The allegation that Trinitarianism was invented in A. D. 325 at the Council of Nicea, or even later, is a historical monstrosity. William G. T. Shedd writes: “[T]he following particulars . . . which […]
The Hyles-Schaap Fallacies
Because of the size, scope of influence, and history of First Baptist Church in Hammond, IN (FBC), the recent sinful acts by Jack Schaap generated a lot of reaction. The responses are an interesting window into people’s understanding of the Bible and God’s work. Several tried to make a tie between Hyles-Schaap and all independent, […]