My Lifetime Surprising Struggle With My Own Sin
Nobody on earth, what I say, “breathes pure, spiritual air.” Nobody has their head in some superior spiritual cloud. Everyone must struggle against sin. My life has been one of a continuous struggle with sin. When I say that, some might act like they are surprised. I was surprised too, because when I was young, […]
Raise a Godly Family in an Ungodly Area–Is it Possible?
If one is in Oklahoma, there are pages and pages of Baptist churches in the phone book. (Phone book? What’s that? But I digress.) In the San Francisco Bay Area, there are many, many fewer churches that even preach a true gospel, much less take a stand for all the truth in the Bible. Sometimes, […]
A Love-O-Meter: Love Does Not Rejoice In Iniquity And Does Rejoice In the Truth
In a very important passage, in 1 Corinthians 13 the Apostle Paul shines love through a prism that refracts into fifteen different colors or hues. Two of them are in verse 6, which reads: [Love] rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth. As I’ve written many times, love is one of the most […]
Millennials Will Rue the Day They Despised Authority
Authority proceeds from God. When I write “authority,” I mean what the Bible says it is, and it is hierarchical (Romans 13:1-3). It doesn’t violate scripture. God created or originated authority. It is necessary to accomplish His moral will (God’s sovereign will is always going to occur). Authority orders the divine design of the world. […]
Support Bethel and Faithsaves.net When Shopping at Amazon
Black Friday is today, and Cyber Monday is coming up! I relatively recently wrote a post about Amazon Smile and how you can, whenever you shop at Amazon.com, support Bethel Christian Academy, a ministry of Bethel Baptist Church, without paying a penny more for whatever you were buying. However, there is a way to go […]
“Holy” Is Not Related to “Wholly”
Calvary Chapels multiplied here in the Rogue River Watershed beginning in the late 1970s, especially beginning with Applegate Christian Fellowship and Jon Courson, which is the largest congregation in all of Southern Oregon. This was an outgrowth of the first Calvary Chapel started in Southern California in 1965 with Chuck Smith, proceeding from the Jesus […]
Angels Marrying Humans and Jesus Preaching in Hell? The Happenings of Genesis 6 and 1 Peter 3
Why this subject now? I have taken the same position on these two passages since I came to my position on these two passages. Other men I respect a lot have taken drastically different positions. You can’t confuse the difference between them, they’re so, so different. If you have some general knowledge of this, you […]
The Belly or the Bowels (part two): Either a Belly Church or a Bowel Church
Part One In Philippians 3:19, the Apostle Paul uses these words: “whose God is their belly.” Let’s play a thought experiment with a potential reader of those words at the end of that chapter of Paul’s epistle to the Philippians church. He says, My God is not my belly, so Paul isn’t talking about me. […]
Updated Evangelistic Bible Study #1
The evangelistic Bible study series online at faithsaves.net are being updated. Study #1, which covers the inspiration, preservation, and canonicity of Scripture, has been updated with pictures and other things that make it much nicer looking. I would encourage you to start using the updated ones if your church uses these evangelistic Bible studies. In […]
Woke Cards: First in Series of Woke Holiday Cards
Send someone a Woke Card for the next holiday. Here is the first in a series of Woke Holiday cards. This one is for Thanksgiving holiday. Don’t worry about paying for someone’s housing, actually providing them a home, like parents do their children. Instead, send that homeless person this Woke Thanksgiving card. The person (not […]