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The Historical and Biblical Outlier of Wesleyan Salvation and Sanctification (Part 5)
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Like many other movements since the first century, when Jesus started His church, John Wesley’s movement claimed a kind of return to primitive Christianity. In fact, he tried to reform the Church of England (COE) with a novel patchwork of salvation and sanctification doctrine […]
Embracing An Unstoppable Advantage For Guaranteed Longstanding Victory (Part Two)
Part One Fleshly Lust and Priesthood Peter commands his readers (1 Peter 2:11): “Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.” It is a crucial or key verse in 1 Peter as Peter moves into the primary message of his epistle. It’s also a mandate or instruction, or at least similar one, as in […]
Revivalism or Fake Revival, Jesus Revolution, and Asbury, pt. 3
Part One Part Two Religious or Spiritual Ecstasy, Soft Continuationism Again and again through the years, I wrote on religious ecstasy, a perversion of true spirituality experienced in Corinth (1 Corinthians 12:1-3) [see here, here, here, here, here, and here]. In 1 Corinthians 1, when Paul said that the Jews seek after signs (1 […]
Does Mysticism Mix With the Bible?
Mysticism pervades world history, and especially the history of the United States. What does mysticism do for a country or a person? Is it good? Is it all bad?When Jonathan Edwards described mysticism in the early 18th century, he didn’t use the word “mysticism.” The term mysticism was around, but perhaps not in the kind […]
How Is Alcohol Related to Worship?
Maybe the question of the title got your attention. It sounds like that’s what I was trying to do, but I wasn’t. Instead I jumped into the car and turned it to the 24/7 radio station of the biggest Calvary Chapel in our area of Oregon. The son, who is now the senior pastor, was […]
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