Knowing the Trinity: Practical Thoughts for Daily Life, by Ryan M. McGraw: A Review
Dr. Ryan M. McGraw has written a valuable book entitled Knowing the Trinity: Practical Thoughts for Daily Life (Lancaster, PA: Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, 2017). (Amazon affiliate link.) I asked (and received) a review copy of the book and believe that it is a valuable book on the Christian’s fellowship with the Triune God. Too many […]
Who Is Semipelagian? Does Someone Need to Be a Calvinist Not to Be Semipelagian?
Church historians will say that a big part of the history of the church is a reaction to major heresies or at least strains of heresy that caused major problems in the church. The true church starts with the truth, and a heresy would be a deviation or detour off that path. A heresy would […]
Selective Relativism: Love Isn’t Acceptance or Toleration
In 2011 I attended incognito the Evangelical Theological Society meeting in San Francisco, and listened to Robert P. George in a session entitled, “Ethics in an Age of Relativism.” He described students in general in today’s colleges and universities as selectively relativistic. They become very absolute usually only when they judge a personal offense. They […]
Jessie Penn-Lewis: the Christ-Life and Quietism (part 5 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 […]
Why Didn’t Jesus or Paul Try to Stop Slavery?
Whenever I get to a slavery passage when teaching the Bible, I like to talk about slavery. I taught Ephesians this year in our school and I had to talk about it in Ephesians 6:5-9. I couldn’t just say, let’s talk about the employer-employee relationship, since it starts with slaves being obedient to their masters […]
Apostasy and the Meaning of Stephen’s Sermon in Acts 7 with Special Application to Millennial Apostates
In the first half of Acts 6 Stephen along with seven others was chosen to service the Grecian widows of the Jerusalem church. In the second half of Acts 6, the focus stays alone on Stephen with his courageous gospel disputations in the Hellenistic Jewish synagogues. He is charged with blasphemy by them, which then […]
Sing the Nicene Creed in Greek
Nicaeno-Constantinopolitan Creed, A. D. 325/381 (with Filioque) on the holy Trinity (sung to the tune of “Of the Father’s Heart Begotten”) Πιστεύομεν εἰς ἕνα Θεὸν Πατέρα παντοκράτορα, ποιητὴν οὐρανοῦ καὶ γῆς, ὁρατῶν τε πάντων καὶ ἀοράτων. Καὶ εἰς ἕνα κύριον Ιησοῦν Χριστόν, τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ θεοῦ τὸν μονογενῆ, τὸν ἐκ τοῦ Πατρὸς γεννηθέντα πρὸ […]
Tolkien and Lewis: Preference for Masculine Clothing in Rejection of Dandyism
Speaking of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, Humphrey Carpenter writes in J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977): [H]is [Tolkien’s] choice of clothes in middle age was also the sign of a dislike of dandyism. This he shared with C. S. Lewis. Neither could abide any manner of […]
2 Peter 2 and John 13: The Relationship Between Lust, Authority, Heresy, and Apostasy
Apostates deny the Lord who bought them (2 Peter 2:1). Their problem with Jesus is His sovereign lordship, that is, they don’t want Him in charge. Why? Their lust. They want what they want, and only what He wants when it’s what they want. On earth in real time, however, they don’t clash with Jesus. […]
Jessie Penn-Lewis: Keswick Faith Healer (part 4 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 […]