Church Success: Evangelism
Biblical success is sorting out what Scripture says and doing it. Worldly success doesn’t care what Scripture says. Our nation obsesses over faithless, tangible success. Who makes the most money? What has the most people? In the end, God’s Word will stand. Like gravity, you can argue with it, but that won’t change anything. A […]
A Paradigmatic Example of New Age Medicine and How to Expose and Analyze it, part 3
The following is a continuation of part 2. A third severe problem with Chiropractor Fox’s practice is that his chiropractic philosophy is occult and unscientific. While there are chiropractors who have rejected the occult and unscientific ideas of the founder of chiropractic, D. D. Palmer, and have embraced the (Biblical) scientific method for evaluating facts—namely, those […]
The Latin Vulgate and the King James Version
Latin Vulgate. King James Version. Two translations. How do you relate those two? The first is Latin, the second English. They are not translated from an identical original language text. The former was the Bible of Roman Catholicism, not a denomination that teaches salvation by grace through faith. The latter was accomplished by the Church […]
Forward or Backward?
Why reelect our President? Of course, because a vote for Mitt Romney would bring back the failed policies of the Bush years, you know, what got us in this mess in the first place. You’ve been hearing the above same argument for awhile now, even in the 2008 campaign against John McCain. Mostly, I […]
What NT Churches can Do to Oppose Sodomite Marriage, Abortion, and Economic Theft
It is certainly Biblical for us to use our rights as citizens, as Paul used his Roman citizenship in Acts, and for us to follow Christ’s command to be salt and light in our society–nevertheless, we are also not to violate Biblical precepts about separation, nor neglect the fact that preaching the gospel and making […]
The Eclecticism of Today’s Churches
I’ve got so many series going that it’s hard to keep track. I haven’t finished up my Church Kids Go to College and am not even close to done with Why I’m Not a Calvinist, so you can expect more there. There are a few others that I know I’m not done with, but a […]
The Man from Moscow Misses It on Music
When I say Moscow and music, you might think Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, or Rimsky-Korsakov, but for the moment instead think Douglas Wilson from Moscow, Idaho. Wilson is called by many the father of Christian classical education, so he is an influential thinker among evangelicals and even among fundamentalists. In the last week, he has written an […]
A Paradigmatic Example of New Age Medicine and How to Expose and Analyze it, part 2
The following is a continuation of the letter of part 1. Not only is muscle testing an occult technique, it is scientifically impossible. It does not follow the Biblical model of subduing and having dominion over the earth by investigating created processes through the scientific method (Genesis 1:28). It fails the Biblical imperatives to “Prove all […]
Going Too Far with Separation?
I like to write about separation, especially in light of our book coming out this year on ecclesiastical separation. Stay tuned for its launch. ****************** A few weeks ago, I wandered over to the Fundamental Baptist Fellowship International (FBFI) blog (Proclaim & Defend), and saw that Larry Oats, longtime faculty and administration at Maranatha Baptist […]
College for Church Kids, pt. 3
When we make any decision, we start with, does it obey Scripture? Christian colleges teach the Bible. They even require Bible classes. If your child attends one of these classes, he will be receiving biblical doctrine and practice. Does God permit a child of God to learn a skewing of scripture? I established in […]