Self-Love Is the Most Potent Stupid Pill: The Recent Ascent of Self-Love
Scripture does not teach self love. It teaches against self love. If one trait characterizes apostasy (2 Tim 3:1-3), it is self love. When Jesus came to earth, He emptied His self (Philippians 2). At the root of the gospel is self-denial and yet self-love grows today rampant among even professing Christians. I thought perhaps […]
Baptist Churches and the Spanish Flu, 1918-1920
The government is not the friend of churches. A conspiracy of Satan exists against the church as part of his war against God. I see religious liberty in America disappearing. Is this Covid-19 shelter-in-place, no gatherings above five or ten, a part of the overall plan to stop churches? Or is it spiritually a means […]
Pray for Power! (Or pray for grace?)
“If you do not pray for God’s power, you do not understand even the most fundamental aspects of the Christian life. You think that you need to live for Christ by your own strength, in a self-dependent way. Since, for example, Bro. Brandenburg does not pray for power, he must be totally ignorant of how […]
The Pharisaism and Sedation of Woke “Christianity”: A Coronavirus to the Church
Former Treatment A Second Former Treatment The Great Awakening in mid-18th century colonial America, influenced by the biblical preaching of George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards, led to the American Revolution. Some say we’re now in the Great Awokening with aspirations for a different kind of revolution, perhaps something closer to that of the early […]
You Might Be Settled on God’s Love For You, But What About Your Love for God?
God doesn’t love us by sending on to us His sentimental feelings. That’s not love. He actually loves us, and so does Jesus. Jesus laid down His life. God does things. He provides. He gives. I can keep going, but it’s the length of the whole Bible. If God loved certain professing evangelicals, like they […]
Biblical Considerations of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Many pastors and theologians have provided their counsel, take, admonition, or encouragement on this virus that is sickening and killing people all over the world. I’ve listened to at least four sermons on it, while going about working at home while sheltered-in-place, a terminology I never remember hearing until now. It’s come up in about […]
COVID-19 / Coronavirus Gospel Tracts
I have written a COVID-19 / Coronavirus gospel tract entitled The Coming Plagues & COVID-19. You can share the link with people whom you cannot easily contact because of social distancing. You can also download a Word document version of the tract at the All Content page here (search for “Coming Plagues” and then download the […]
Do Separatist, Independent Baptist Churches Believe And Teach Jesus’ Love Must Be Earned?
A known person raised in an separatist, unaffiliated Baptist church in the last few months wrote on social media the following ideas (representative of them with some exact wording), broad brushing these churches as embracing the following doctrine and characteristics. He uses the word “communities” referring to churches. He said in essence: Their children were […]
Why Do People Have Such A Low View of the Law?
The Internal Revenue Code alone has 3.4 million words and 7,500 pages. There are 20,000 laws governing just the use and ownership of guns. I can keep going. Now, that is intrusive. That is onerous. That is prohibitive. That is repressive. That is burdensome. That is overwhelming. I should hate the laws of the United […]
The Parable of the Prodigal Son Could Be Titled “Two Sons Who Both Hated Their Father”
Jesus tells three parables in Luke 15, all of which reveal the love of God the Father for the lost, unlike the religious leaders in Israel. He searches for them like a lost coin, first parable, lost sheep, second, and lost son, third. That states the correct view of God the Father and, therefore, also […]