Sustainability
Through all my thirty-three years of living in California, I often heard the word “sustainability.” It means “to exist constantly.” Only God has existed constantly (Psalm 90:2). God alone sustains the whole universe, all matter and space, and then the earth. Speaking of Jesus, John writes (John 1:3): All things were made by him; and […]
Is The Orthodox Church a False Church Within the True Church?
In the mid 1960s, Walter Martin became the first “Bible Answer Man,” exposing cults and false religions from all over the world. In 1989, when Martin died, Hank Hanegraff became the new “Bible Answer Man,” sort of like the line of the Dread Pirate Roberts in The Princess Bride. Someone else can become “The Bible […]
What Does God Want From Me? God’s Law, His Perfect Standard: Bible Study 3
On the last few Fridays I have posted Bible study #1: “What is the Bible?” (part 1B) and study #2, “Who is God?” The video for part 3, “What does God want from me?” is embedded below. The studies can be accessed on the Bible studies page on my website here or on YouTube (link to part […]
Is Kneeling at the Flag and During the National Anthem Disrespectful to the Flag?
What’s the point of kneeling at the flag and during the national anthem if it isn’t disrespect? Of course it is disrespect. The people doing it say that they are misunderstood. A lot is written about this, so it’s not hard to hear the point of kneeling. The kneelers are protesting systemic police brutality against […]
Another Quixotic Whiff for Mark Ward on the Bible and Its Preservation
With full disclaimer, from my childhood I recall Gilligan and the fearless crew on the uncharted desert isle. Mr. Howell, the Professor, and Skipper are dressed as women in an attempt to fool some visiting natives looking for a “white goddess” to throw into their volcano. Not expecting any of those three to pull it […]
Who is God? Bible study #2
Following Bible study #1 on the character of Scripture as inspired and preserved, Bible study #2, on the most important Being, covers the nature of God, discussing His incommunicable attributes such as omnipotence, self-existence, His character as a Spirit, and so on, as well as communicable attributes such as justice, love, holiness, etc. The meaning […]
The Myth of the Recovering Fundamentalist
I’ve been a fundamentalist. I’m not one. Do I consider myself to have “recovered”? I left fundamentalism. I separated from it. I didn’t escape it. I didn’t recover from it. I stopped being a fundamentalist. I didn’t go through a process of recovery. I saw it was wrong to be one, so I stopped being […]
Biblical Preservation and Canonicity: Bible study 1B
Years ago, as a member of Lehigh Valley Baptist Church, I was introduced to the Scriptural pattern of doing evangelistic Bible studies with the lost as well as simply preaching the gospel to them at their doors. There are a number of good evangelistic Bible studies that have been written; the ones available here are in use in a number […]
King Jesus, the Least of the Commandments, and the Destructive Essential/Non-Essential Doctrine
In the flow of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5, He preaches the requirement for entrance into His kingdom (5:1-12) and then the present identity on the earth of its citizens, salt and light (5:13-16). Salt presents the negative identity of influence against decay or corruption (5:13). Light presents the positive identity of […]
Test Your Theological Knowledge!
How is your theological knowledge? If you would like to find out, the: Theological Placement Exam (click on the link) is a useful test. I do not endorse Credo House, which produced the test, because of its new evangelical character and compromise to the point where it will produce material by “evangelicals” who are willing to […]