Reasons I Think I Should Throw In The Towel
I have reasons I think I should throw in the towel. The bar is stuck on my chest and I don’t have a spotter. I want to quit. I’m looking for the nearest exit, hoping the curtains will close. Some of my readers might view this as good news. I should have given up long […]
Evangelize the Bay Area of California!
My wife and I currently live in the great state of Wisconsin, where we have approximately 5.8 million people. California, by way of contrast, has approximately 40 million people. The Bay Area, where Bethel Baptist Church is located in El Sobrante, has approximately 7 million people–considerably more than the entire state of Wisconsin! In fact, […]
Commands Christians Break Who Listen to Pop/Rock Music
A discussion on music breaks down into at least two general categories: what you use personally and what you use in church. Some professing Christians say you can both use personally and worship with any music you want. Others believe that you can listen to anything personally, but are limited in the worship of a […]
In 1 Corinthians 7 the Apostle Paul Nukes the Wokeness of Professing Christian Millennials, Including Those Who Ghost their Parents
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six Part Seven Part Eight What if a Christian lives in a social condition in an institutional way that doesn’t please him? The Apostle Paul deals with this in 1 Corinthians 6 and mainly 7. Slavery was rampant at that time in the […]
Jessie Penn-Lewis & Evan Roberts: Applications From Their Lives and Doctrines, I (part 20 of 22)
The content of this post is now available in the study of: 1.) Evan Roberts 2.) The Welsh Revival of 1904-1905 3.) Jessie Penn-Lewis on the faithsaves.net website. Please click on the people above to view the study. On the FaithSaves website the PDF files may be easiest to read. You are also encouraged […]
Psalm 22:22: Jesus’ Singing and the Place of Singing in Redemption
A thousand years before the Lord Jesus Christ died, David prophesied it in Psalm 22. It’s an amazing prophecy. It expounds numerous great and graphic details of the future crucifixion of the suffering Messiah, not yet invented by the Persians or incorporated by the Romans. Psalm 22 itself is a song, lament, the servant Son […]
Church Growth: The Old and New Baptist Way
There are some pretty remarkable differences between the Baptist evangelism of times past and that of professed Baptists in the circle of influence of Jack Hyles. A Different Gospel In the past, Baptists believed things such as the following on repentance: "Saving repentance is an evangelical grace, whereby a person, being by the Holy Spirit […]
Hate As A Conceptual Weapon
In his book, Strength to Love, in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote (p. 37): Let us now move from the practical how to the theoretical why: Why should we love our enemies? The first reason is fairly obvious. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. […]
The Underlying Reasons for Ghosting
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six Part Seven In my last post on the practice of ghosting, I brought in the example of Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Ghosting is an extreme, unscriptural form of separation, which has been defined as “the practice of […]
Jessie Penn-Lewis: Soul Force, Only the Human Spirit Regenerated, And Other Bizarre Foolishness (part 19 of 22)
The content of this post is now available in the study of: 1.) Evan Roberts 2.) The Welsh Revival of 1904-1905 3.) Jessie Penn-Lewis on the faithsaves.net website. Please click on the people above to view the study. On the FaithSaves website the PDF files may be easiest to read. You are also encouraged […]