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Steps in the Right Process for Belief Change (Part Fourteen)
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six Part Seven Part Eight Part Nine Part Ten Part Eleven Part Twelve Part Thirteen The Cultural Transformation of Evangelical Christianity — Changes Without the Right Process: A Test Case for the […]
Is a Gathering of the Church, “a Worship Service,” a Biblical Belief? (Part Seventeen)
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six Part Seven Part Eight Part Nine Part Ten Part Eleven Part Twelve Part Thirteen Part Fourteen Part Fifteen Part Sixteen Modernism says, “Truth is what reason can establish.” […]
Worldliness Is a Gospel Issue (Part Three)
Part One Part Two Scripture shows worldliness as a gospel issue. When someone repents, he leaves the world system for a heavenly one. When salvation presents itself to someone, a worldly heart, which cares more about the accoutrements of this present world than the realities of the next one, the one of God, the […]
Worldliness Is a Gospel Issue (Part Two)
Part One As established in the New Testament, “the world” means not mere physical matter but an ordered moral system in active rebellion against the Creator, a rival kingdom animated by “the spirit of the age.” True salvation, according to the apostolic witness, produces an incongruity with that system. The saved do not love the […]
Worldliness Is a Gospel Issue
What Is “The World”? Biblical Christianity, the only Christianity, is in complete incongruity with the “world,” what scripture shows is the world system or the spirit of the age. BDAG, the foremost lexicon of the New Testament, defines the Greek word translated “world,” kosmos, based upon its usage in all ancient Greek literature: “the sum […]
Steps in the Right Process for Belief Change (Part Eleven)
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six Part Seven Part Eight Part Nine Part Ten Scripture exposes the right process for belief change. The Bible requires change, conforming to the image of the Son (Romans 8:29-30). Jesus expected change among the […]
Predominant Criteria for Worship That Distort and Corrupt Worship of God
Just to keep track of what’s going on here, I’ve got several series still ongoing. I wanted to remind you and perhaps assure you, that Lord-willing I will, definitely want to, finish these. Monday, I published the fourth in a series entitled, The Spectrum on Israel Accepted in the MAGA Movement (parts one, two, three, […]
Same Sex Marriage Oddity As Not A “Secondary Issue” (Part Two)
Part One Cultural Liberalness Evangelicalism long ago separated cultural issues from doctrinal ones. You will read many today saying that they are doctrinally conservative and socially or culturally liberal. If doctrines are primary, culture became all secondary. Most evangelical churches now rely on pragmatic means for numerical church growth. Especially young people want to fit […]
Music Style Isn’t a Christian Liberty (part four)
Part One Part Two Part Three This series, now in part four, mixes two true aspects of the perpetual worship of a believer that reinforces the proposition that musical style is not a Christian liberty. The first is the individual worship that takes up the entire life of a believer. He does all […]
Embracing An Unstoppable Advantage For Guaranteed Longstanding Victory
Supply Chains and Tripping Hazards Something I never heard before 2020 were the two words, “supply chain.” I looked into those two words and didn’t find them used together before the last half of the twentieth century. Google books gives just one page of examples for the whole century and none in the nineteenth century. […]
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