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Sanctification: Bible, Keswick, Wesleyan, Pentecostal Views

Confusion on the nature of progressive sanctification is widespread today.  What are the basic differences between the views on sanctification taught in the Bible and the views of sanctification promoted by the Wesleyan (Methodist, Holiness), Keswick (Higher Life), Pentecostal (Assemblies of God), and what I call the Weak on Repentance (“free grace,” anti-Lordship) movements? As […]

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Social Media and Electronics: Addictive Drugs for Christians?

Are social media and electronics drugs to which Christians are addicted-by the millions? Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, WhatsApp, Twitter, Snapchat, Linkedin, Pinterest, Tiktok–mind-numbing, time-wasting distractions, all.  Then there is email–Gmail, Yahoo!, AOL (if you are really old-school), as well as texting, blogging, threads, and all sorts of other ways to use up on the Internet the […]

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Bifurcation in Beauty: Dualism of Spiritual/Sacred and Natural/Secular

Part One     Part Two You have heard, “Life imitating art or art imitating life.”  In that vein, art imitates worldview.”  Even when someone says, this is his worldview, his art may contradict what he says is his worldview.  The art or his aesthetic is a better or more accurate expression of his worldview than […]

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Jehovah’s Mercy is Holy–Chesed to the Chasidim

A core term for Jehovah’s mercy or lovingkindness in the Old Testament is chesed (חֶסֶד).  This crucial term for the mercy Jehovah shows His people appears in texts such as:   Gen. 19:19 Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me […]

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Postmodern “Grace”

The author of Hebrews in 12:15-17 warns: Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. For ye know how […]

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Is the Trinity Practical? by Ryan McGraw

Some time ago I reviewed on this blog Ryan McGraw’s fine book Knowing the Trinity: Practical Thoughts for Daily Life. I recommend the book highly; too many Christians think that the Trinity is just a doctrine that one holds that has no impact on his life, when, in fact, the Trinity is at the heart of […]

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Why is the third Person in the Trinity named “the Holy Spirit”?

Why is the third Person of the Trinity named “the Holy Spirit”?   After all, “God is a Spirit” (John 4:24), so the Father and the Son both possess the attribute of spirituality, of being a “Spirit,” equally with the third Person.  So what is the distinction?   Also, the Father is the “holy Father” […]

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Are Christian Ministers “Reverend”?

Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox religious organizations call their priests “reverend,” or “reverend Fathers.” So do the large majority of Protestants, and a surprising number of Baptists, even fundamental, independent Baptists. Are Catholic priests “reverend”? How about Christian ministers–are they the “Reverend John Doe” and the like?   There is only one verse in the […]

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They Did Not Drive Out the Inhabitants of and from the Land

The idea of driving out anybody from almost anywhere is not acceptable in a woke world or does not work according to political correctness, the latter a softer, earlier iteration of wokeness.  The act of driving out inhabitants from the land is a major theme, however, of the Old Testament.  Israel is in bad shape […]

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Profane

Reading through the Bible for my second time this year, I arrived at Leviticus again and the word “profane” stood out to me.  It is found 26 times in the Old Testament of the King James Version and seven in the New.  Fifteen of those total times are in Leviticus. In eighteenth century English dictionaries, […]

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