Are You a Piglet?

Winnie the Pooh This might surprise you, but I categorize personalities sometimes by Winnie the Pooh characters.  Not everyone fits into the Pooh constellation, but many do, I’ve found.  For instance, if I say, Eeyore, does that sound like anyone you know?  I’ve known several Eeyores in my lifetime. You’ve got Pooh himself, Owl, Rabbit, […]

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Watching a Slow Motion Car Crash: 2023-2024 United States

Preach the Gospel My wife and I live in a mobile home in small town rural Indiana, evangelizing Decatur County as well as a 25 minute radius of our church building.  I preach the gospel almost every day to someone.  We do discipleship, Bible studies, and meet for church.  Her and I exist in our […]

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James White-Thomas Ross Debate Review #3: Epistle Dedicatory

I was thankful for the opportunity to debate James White on the preservation of Scripture.  I thought that the debate when well, as did numbers of others who stand for the preservation of Scripture.  I have recently added a number of additional debate review videos.  Dr. White claimed that the KJV translators, had they been […]

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Modernism Is Not an Acceptable Alternative to Postmodernism: Jordan Peterson

Early Experience with Modernism Growing up in small town Indiana, no one exposed me to modernism.  Without anyone telling me, I read the Bible as literal.  Everything happened in it just like it read.  When I was twelve, my dad took us all off to Bible college in Wisconsin when he was thirty-five years old, […]

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Paul Stands Against Peter and the Subject of Authority (Part Four)

Part One     Part Two     Part Three God Uses Human Intervention Take a moment with me to participate in a thought experiment.  Paul stood against Peter to the face.  Why would Paul stand against Peter if God predetermined or just determined everything in life?  As a free agent, Peter chose not to eat with […]

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You Can Lead an Evangelistic Bible Study!

You can lead an evangelistic Bible study! I have mentioned on What is Truth? before the series of evangelistic Bible studies that the FaithSaves.net website has made available.  The seven studies themselves can be viewed here, where one can also see an example by video of how one can present them to the lost.  The […]

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Paul Stands Against Peter and the Subject of Authority (Part Three)

Part One     Part Two Authority of Scripture To obey God and His Word, one must first believe in His authority and the authority of His Word.  I believe in God’s authority and the authority of His Word.  True New Testament churches submit to the Bible as their final authority. God and His Word also […]

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Paul Stands Against Peter and the Subject of Authority (Part Two)

Part One The Point of Peter and Paul’s Authority According to Galatians 2, the gospel was the point of Peter and Paul’s authority, not authority the point of their authority.  Paul used his authority with Peter, when the gospel was at stake.  He stood against him “before them all,” when Peter, Barnabas, and others “walked […]

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God Does NOT Love Everyone? An Error of Hyper-Calvinism, part 3 of 3

Is it true that God does NOT love everyone? Hyper-Calvinism says “yes,” but Scripture says “no!” In part 1 and part 2 of this series, I summarized the first portions of my study God Does Not Love Everyone: A Hyper-Calvinist Error.  This final part will summarize the final portion of God Does Not Love Everyone: […]

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Paul Stands Against Peter and the Subject of Authority

Galatians 2 and Paul Withstanding Peter Apostleship In Galatians 2:11 the Apostle Paul writes: But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. One could say at that point in church history, Peter was the greatest apostle.  Peter saw Jesus’ glory on the Mount of […]

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