Heads Up on a Preservation Article I’ll Be Answering Here
Over at SharperIron, perhaps the most well-known fundamentalist blog and forum on the internet, the owner/editor, Aaron Blumer, a very decent Christian man, has written an article on preservation. He separates positions on preservation to two, and one of them, what he calls the discrete position, is the one we take. I wouldn’t call it […]
Taking Liberties that Are Not Ours to Take
I can’t climb through an open window into your house without being invited. That’s not a liberty that is mine to take. I don’t get to borrow your car because the door is unlocked and the keys are in the ignition. You understand those in a personal way. You also can comprehend certain actions like […]
Is This Statement Scriptural? “Strictly speaking, biblical “separation” is refusing to extend Christian fellowship to someone who denies the gospel.”
I like reading Scott Aniol’s Religious Affections. Jonathan Edward’s A Treatise concerning Religious Affections is important to have read and understand, and Scott does well to name his blog that. Most don’t know or understand the implications of not knowing what Edwards talks about in his treatise. I believe he provides a very informative and […]
A Leaking Gospel
If the true gospel was a ship, it would be airtight, never to be sunk. It always would do what it was supposed to do, because the gospel is of God. It is His good news. He gave it to mankind. As God’s creation, the gospel will succeed at what God intended it. The gospel […]
“Negotiable Matters of Indifference”
I read this in a sampling of a new book, Risking the Truth, edited by Martin Downes. In this chapter, Martin Downes interviews Carl Trueman, Professor of Historical Theology and Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Downes: Why have evangelicals reduced the great Protestant confessions down to minimal statements? Trueman: Because evangelicalism, as […]
Important Thoughts for Human Beings part one
Here’s an important thought for all human beings. You can judge God. But it’s not going to matter. He’s God. What’s important for you is, listen up, how God judges you. And because of that, the vital ingredient in all of this is the truth. Human beings, get this: be concerned about what the truth […]
Christmas in the Apocalypse
At the end of Revelation 11, we see the seventh trumpet of judgment blown. Heaven rejoices. Earth rages. God judges. But we don’t get the actual content of the trumpet until Revelation 15. Revelation 12 to 14 relate the Satanic view of the tribulation period on earth. The rest of the book shifts back and […]
“Not Given to Much Wine” and Abstaining from Alcohol
More controversy seems to exist than ever in churches over the drinking of alcoholic beverages. If I say it isn’t a difficult subject, I’ll be castigated, but I’m going to say it: “I don’t think it is a difficult subject”—at least not until recently. We’ve got more permissible drinkers than ever in evangelical churches. I […]
Flock Teaching
God uses metaphors in Scripture as a figure of speech to communicate His truth. In some prominent passages, New Testament authors use the “flock” analogy as one of these pictures to portray a particular theological concept. “Flock,” of course, starts with an agrarian reality with actual sheep, as seen in the nativity text in Luke […]
Since Jesus Sang In the Church, Well….
I don’t think that Jay Adams believes that the church started until Pentecost, like most Protestants as himself, so how did Jesus sing in the church, as seen in Hebrews 2:12? Jay Adams uses an example of Jesus singing. OK. He sang in the church. If Jesus sang in the church, then the church was […]