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What Hope Can We Have?
What hope can we hope for in the midst of trials, and tribulations and calamities that we ourselves have had a hand in creating? To my believing brothers and sisters, we of course immediately recall King David; a man who committed terrible atrocities, and as a result found himself in dire straights and even danger…
Deliberate Foreknowledge
Original Publication Date: 5/30/23 What does God’s foreknowledge mean? Many people believe that God knows the future only because he can “look forward through the corridors of time” and see what happens in the future. The problem with this view is that it makes God a passive observer of something that is outside of His…
No Root of Bitterness
Original Publication Date: 5/14/23 In Hebrews 12:12-15, the author of Hebrews (who is unknown to us) is explaining how our race of Faith is run in community. Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble, and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is lame may not be put…
Good Works: Will vs Nature
There is a certain type of Christian out there that will post memes like the one above. This one by a fellow in a Facebook group who basically likes to badger John MacArthur accusing him of the heresy of “works based salvation” when he says things like this quote. In this case, this fellow claimed…
Love Your Enemies, Not Just Your Friends
I’m not going to win any friends with this post, but this needs to be said. For all the evil that she did, it is just as sad and tragic that the police shot and killed this girl. She is every bit made in the image of God that I am, and her sins are…
Parchment and Peels
The Written word of God vs. the banana peels of pop culture in the Church https://baptistnews.com/article/just-because-you-believe-the-bible-says-it-doesnt-settle-it More from the Southern Baptist Convention’s train wreck. Increasingly, Like so many other books and articles, the title betrays it’s conclusion before it even begins. It’s an attack on the authority of scripture. In gearing up to tackle it,…
“Be Anxious For Nothing…”
Original Publication Date: 3/25/2023 “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication and with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right,…
His Mercies Are More
Original Publication Date: 3/12/23 This morning, we sang a hymn that contained the following verse: Our sins they are many,His mercies are more. The hymn encourages us and reminds us that no matter what sins others have committed against us, they are nothing compared to what God has forgiven US. When we remember how great…
The Gospel in Marriage
Original Publication Date: 12/24/2022 God has, for whatever purpose suits him, couched all of the Gospel plan of salvation in the language of Marriage. There is a Groom. There is a Bride. There is a spotless white wedding dress. There are groomsmen, and brides maids. There is a Wedding Feast. There is a Marriage, and…
The Cultural Attack on Women
19 December, 2022 The root of feminism is just the dislike and disdain for male and female differences, roles, and responsibilities. And the root reason of that is hatred of God who made those distinctions, and commanded us to observe and preserve them, and to make ourselves separate and distinct from the world’s culture. Our…
What even IS Masculine and Feminine?
The Premise: The concepts of “masculine” and “feminine” are, and always have been a completely social and cultural construct that predates the Bible, Judaism and Christianity. It is a basic human truth established and understood from creation to this day. When Paul exhorted the men of the church to “act like men”, he didn’t go on…
The Damage of Conflicting Roles in Marriage
If a husband and wife are following a biblical model for their marriage, they are presenting to their children, and to the world, a unified front that is airtight and unassailable. The husband is careful how he models the headship of his wife and children, knowing that he is the model of Christ in the…
Actions Speak Louder Than Words
“How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn!You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!” — Isa 14:12 (NIV) SO, having a conversation with a friend about Isaiah Chapter 14; the passage that lots of people have mistaken notions about – including myself because I come…
YOU Should Be About Your Father’s Business!
And He said to them, “Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?” — Luke 2:49 Information that you cannot use is, by it’s very definition, “useless information”. And I have no time at all for useless information. Yet do you know how many who profess to be followers…
Flags in the Church
Do they belong there, or not? The word “Kingdom” is the combination of the word “King” and “Domain”. The Kingdom, then, is the entire realm over which the King has dominion. In the case of our Lord, his Kingdom, his domain, is literally all of creation, and everyone and every thing in it. Once God…
Treacherous Husbands
. . . the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and your wife by covenant. [Malachi 2:14] In scripture, a great many of God’s commands regarding marriage are primarily designed to protect the wife. Far more often, God’s…
Plinko And The Universe
I suppose we’ve all seen a Plinko board at some time or another. Here’s one (in the photo). Now, let’s just dive right in. Let’s just say that’s you up there at the top about to release that checker (disk). What slot at the bottom that checker will end up is absolutely and completely predetermined…
One Can Always Hope
It was the topic of this morning’s sermon. Of all the many hundreds of ways that men and women can hurt, and grieve, and suffer, Jesus has experienced all of them; deeply. In fact, he has experienced them to their fullest depths. Depths that no man can suffer. Depths that no man can grieve. He…
Where Is Your Kingdom?
What I am about to discuss should not be confused with something else that goes by a very similar name. That name is “Kingdom Now Theology”. It was popular in the Pentecostal and Charismatic church back in the 1990s, and may still be for all I know. I left Pentecostalism many years ago, and argued…
Questioning…
When you have a question, or are confronted with a question: ASK yourself the question honestly SEEK the answer to the question diligently ACT according to the answer (whatever you come up with), and GO in the direction the answer leads you, whatever the cost. But one thing you do not do is simply refuse…
Books and Questions
Books and Questions I’m not going to attempt a long, detailed study of any particular book on the subject of Egalitarianism in the Church. Instead, I am going to just get right to the point. Just as there are the Five Points of Calvinism, so also there are five points of biblical marriage. Marriage is:…
Books and Questions – Part Two
Part One ended with the question: Or, do these books simply destroy unity, and promote more division in our churches and marriages? Personally, I think the answer is so blatantly obvious that it boggles the mind that anyone calling themselves a Christian would think otherwise. But, they are out there. Is there anything wrong with…
“Jane”
So, after another John MacArthur and Master’s Seminary “hit piece” was posted to one of my Facebook groups, I just spent the past three hours researching claims of sexual abuse at either GCC, The Master’s Seminary, or The Master’s University. Most notably the story of “Jane” who claimed she was raped by a student of…
Yet We Need To Be Taught How To Die
Some of us, (not willing to be told by ignorant, uneducated men to ignore what we plainly saw with our own eyes to be the truth), recognised from the very beginning that coron@ V1rus was here to stay, and was not ever going away. Against the wishes of impotent, arrogant and silly men who thought…
Partial Regeneration
“Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of heaven.” — John 3:3 “But the gospel is foolishness to them that are perishing.” — 1 Cor 1:18 So, it was brought to my attention that an analogy, or illustration that I often use might have a flaw. It’s in my testimony, and…
Theaters Reopening To Empty Seats. Golly, I Wonder Why?
(Referring to the “theater arts” – live theater) Here’s a great example of why Liberalism, “Progressivism”, Socialism, and Communism all, always fail. In this case, Liberalism and “Progressivism”. Note the capital letters. I was on my way home from work yesterday, and listening to “All Things Considered” on NPR. I generally refer to the show…
As Unto The Lord
Many people, especially those in Egalitarian or Liberal Progressive circles like to discuss Ephesians 5:22, which says in almost all bible versions, “Wives, submit to your husbands in everything, as unto the Lord.” But whether or not they include the verse just before it, verse 21, depends much on what they are trying to accomplish.…
Nancy Agrees With Doug, And That’s Bad
An Interesting Exchange from Yesteryear So, long time blogger Rachel Green-Miller*, joining hands with her oft-time linguistics college professor friend, Valerie Hobbes, have turned their attention to a book written by Nancy Wilson, entitled “The Fruit of Her Hand”. What’s interesting is how they came by it. You see, in September (2015 – thus the…
Choosing To Believe (Again)
So, it’s back in the discussion with some folks today. In response to a meme I made: Basically, I took that image and added those speech bubbles. “So, salvation is not 100% of God, you must also do something to be saved… Hm.” “It would seem that way if you had any control over what…
If Your Adversary Forces You…
God says in his word that all authority comes from him, and that there is no authority except that which he has established. And he confirms that Civil Authority is one of those authorities when he tells us to obey those in authority, “because it is not without reason that they bear the sword [ie,…
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