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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 […]
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. […]
Shaping a Jesus In Your Own Image and then Believing in Him for Salvation
Contrasting Christianity Have you talked in public to an evangelical woman with a cross hanging down into her revealed cleavage? You see the cross juxtapositioned with the other as a backdrop. Not a fit, is it? Maybe you, like me, wonder about the vast differences in professing Christianity. They both claim to believe in Jesus […]
Are Worldly Pleasures A Necessary Sacrifice For or Unto Salvation?
The Lord Jesus Christ told stories, called “parables.” In one of a later of those in Matthew 22, Jesus uses the story of a certain king and the marriage of his son. The “certain king” is God the Father and “his son” is God the Son, Jesus. The point of the story revolves around those […]
“They Will Reverence My Son”
In a story told by the Lord Jesus Christ during His earthly ministry, He said in Mark 12:6: Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son. In the story, obviously this son is a representation of Jesus Christ Himself and so communicates the […]
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