What Is Perfect Love and the Fear That It Casts Out in 1 John 4:18?
You can find a pretty horrific description of the pain and suffering of the coronavirus. You can read the mounting deaths and see the graph of the steep upward curve of infections. You can hear about the precipitous drop in employment and your retirement investment. You could be afraid because of such information. The Apostle […]
Come to Israel! Join a Bible-Lands Tour in Early 2021
Unless the Rapture happens first, there should be relatively normal life on earth once the COVID-19 scare has passed (and you are tired of sitting at home wondering if you are going to get sick.) As has been mentioned earlier on this blog, we are planning to move to the Bay Area to assist Bethel […]
The Rejection of the Man of Sorrows
Philip Paul Bliss was a revivalist hymn writer in the mid 19th century, who in 1875 penned among others the well-known, “Hallelujah, What a Savior!”, the first line of which reads: Man of Sorrows! what a name for the Son of God, who came ruined sinners to reclaim. “Man of sorrows” originates from Isaiah 53:3 […]
Proportion: Not Celebrating Superficial, Trivial Things Like They Are High Value
When Jesus said, repeating Old Testament law (Ex 21:24), eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth (Matt 5:48), some might call that overdoing or extreme. They mock scripture. In fact, God was modifying the typical overreaction to personal wrong. If someone takes an eye, you don’t get to take a head. The response […]
Bible Contradictions? Christ’s Line, Resurrection, Ascension & Paul’s Conversion; Shabir Ally’s Arguments in the Shabir Ally-Thomas Ross debate
During my debate with Shabir Ally over the topic “The New Testament Picture of Jesus: Is it Accurate?” Dr. Ally made a number of claims about the Bible being irreconcilably contradictory and, therefore, not being God’s Word. He argued that the genealogy in Matthew 1 was inaccurate because it left out three names and had the […]
Tests for the Practice of the Doctrine of Separation for Fundamentalism
Sam Horn, Executive Vice President for Enrollment and Ministerial Advancement, Dean of the School of Religion and the Seminary at Bob Jones University, moves to head John MacArthur’s Master’s Seminary. Steve Pettit, president of BJU, makes a positive public statement about it. He meets with John MacArthur and speaks well of it. Maybe Bob Jones has […]
Self Medicating and Managing “Pressures and Disappointments, Terrors, Fears of Whatever”
Who feels sorry for former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for what he did with Monica Lewinsky? Not feel sorry for her, but for him? I think all of you know he was actually a victim. Did you know that? In a recent interview, Bill Clinton was asked “why he took such a […]
Shabir Ally / Thomas Ross Debate Review: “The New Testament Picture of Jesus: Is it Accurate?”
As blog readers may recall, I had the privilege of debating Dr. Shabir Ally over the topic “The New Testament Picture of Jesus: Is it Accurate?” some time ago. I composed a review of the arguments made in that debate not that long after the video became available and I now have the written and […]
The Blame Game Versus Real Repentance, Saul or David
When someone repents, he doesn’t blame his sin on someone else. I’m not saying that he can’t consider what he thinks helped move things the wrong way, but in the end, it was his fault. When someone stops sinning, which is part of repentance, he isn’t going to talk about stopping because it helped himself. […]
Love Wars
Audio 2014 Session at Word of Truth Conference, Love Versus Sentimentalism Earlier Posts One and Two “Childish” is an adjective. It’s not usually applied to children, but adults. What is it when an adult is childish? It’s when the adult is selfish. The adult is behaving in a selfish manner. He’s being self-centered, self-interested, or self-obsessed. On the […]