The Job of Keeping
If something important risks being spoiled, it must be preserved. Satan wants truth corrupted. The means by which he most often accomplishes this is by introducing some error into the truth. The gospel as truth is the power of God into salvation (Rom. 1:16; 1 Tim. 2:4). We are sanctified by the truth (John 17:17). […]
Means of Protection
Think about this scenario and a question. Someone drives his car up over the curb into your yard to hit one of your children. Will that affect your relationship with the driver? Will this tend towards closeness with him? Cutting off associations with people is the God-ordained means to protect you, your family, your present […]
Loophole Theology
“He hit me.”“No, I didn’t.”“He did too.”“I did not.”“Alright, that’s enough. Did you hit him?”“Um, no.”“Um, no?”“Um, no.”“What’s um no?”“He did too hit me.”“I didn’t hit him.”“So why is he saying that?”“What?”“Don’t ask me what. You know what I’m talking about. Did you hit him?”“Um, no.”“He did too.”“I didn’t hit him.”“Don’t say that again. Tell […]
AN EARLY FUNDAMENTALIST of science
You can start laughing right now. I wanted to get you warmed up for my statement: You have a computer because of the Bible. Al Gore wants to take credit for the internet, but I think Moses has more to do with it. Why? Let me give you the clifs notes version. The state church, […]
The Tomato Truck
California is a big, long state with lots of stuff in it—mountains, ocean, lakes, rivers, hills, snow, desert, forests, cows, sheep, elk, bear, and farmland. If you drive down the middle of the state, you travel through the San Joaquin valley where a tremendous amount of produce is farmed. In that area, you will see […]
Priesthood: Privilege or Responsibility
People often defend skewed Bible interpretation or worldly behavior with “the priesthood of the believer.” I’ve challenged people’s beliefs and instead of opening their Bible to counter, they claimed priesthood like someone in court pleading the fifth amendment. I have not noticed many thorough or at least precise explanations of the priesthood of the believer. […]
Fundamentalist: The Movement or the Adjective?
Do any of you that believe the Bible think you trace your lineage of faith back to the early 20th century? the early 16th century? the early 4th century? What about the early 1st century? I’m happy to trace my faith back to the Lord Jesus Christ and the Bible. I don’t believe in a […]
Extremists
In a recent interview about his film about the tragic terrorist murder of Israeli athletes during the 72 Munich Olympics, Steven Spielberg says, “It saddens me to see how narrow-minded and dogmatic some of the right-wing fundamentalists here in the USA are. . . .I do not claim to be providing a peace plan for […]
Where Sin Gets Defeated
When I was a kid, which I usually also add, “it wasn’t so long ago,” a comedian named Flip Wilson made famous the phrase, “The Devil made me do it.” The Devil maybe had something to do with it, but we know he didn’t make us, because sin originates in our own lusts. “[E]very man […]
Diminished Value and Shuffleboard Syndrome
I’ve noticed that I cry about birth and death and then things closely related. The happiness in the face of the mother with her newborn brings tears to my eyes. The death of someone, almost anyone, mists me up. When I think about someone’s death because of a lingering illness or risky surgery, my throat […]