But even if you should suffer for the sake of righteousness, you are blessed. And do not fear their intimidation, and do not be troubled, but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you yet with gentleness and reverence; and keep a good conscience so that in the thing in which you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ will be put to shame. 1 Peter 3: 14-16
The Australian arm of The Gospel Coalition recently published an interview with Ed Shaw, one of the founders of Living Out, the U.K. version of Revoice. Consider the title of the interview, “The Church and Same-Sex Attracted People.” It assumes such a category as “same-sex...
I wanted to spend a few moments interacting with this article over at the Southern Evangelical Seminary blog,
Does Ken Ham’s Defense Biblical Authority Lead to Biblical Skepticism?
It’s an article written by my past internet foil, Adam Tucker. He has provided us with a helpful treatise...
I tussled with a few of the folks from Revoice right before Easter weekend, particularly Nate Collins. He was bothered by a tweet I posted. I wrote,
The Hunky Jesus and Foxy Mary pageant, along with the Folsom street fair, drag queen library story time, and a number of other similar homoerotic,...
The leadership of the Mormon church recently changed their policy regarding parents of gay children.
Children of parents who identify themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender may now be blessed as infants and baptized in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints without First...
Conspiracy provocateur and vitamin supplement grifter, Brannon Howse, continues his personal campaign of humiliating failure. His latest attempt was a blinding pyre of self-immolation that was wildly entertaining to behold.
In his pursuit to discredit the 50 year ministry of pastor John MacArthur,...
Cody Libolt, who helps run the Christian Intellectual website, asks some questions of the organizers of three major Reformed conferences, G3, Shepherd’s Conference, and Ligonier.
The questions pertain to the ongoing battle with social justice warriors who are injecting their social justice...
The Downfall of Gideon – Judges 8
Throughout the Scripture, we can take note that, at times, God will utilize men who may not be of the greatest of character.
– Abraham lied to Pharaoh about his wife and he took matters into his own hands with attempting to obtain a heir.
– Jacob acted deceitfully, stealing the birth-right from his
Shortly after I posted my article exploring the facepalming misuse of Scripture by many in the Reformed camp with the overuse of a typological hermeneutic, I had a dear pastor friend of mine leave a blistering comment on Facebook. He wrote,
There is rich irony in being lectured about typology by dispensationalists who regularly see Apache
Theology that is really cool and fun and stuff
At the risk of receiving a severe wedgie from a number of my Reformed acquaintances who run around my game circle, I wanted to respond to a discussion that took place at the ReformCom 2016 with the guys of Apologia radio, N.D. Wilson, and Darren Doane.
I specifically want to focus in upon the bizarre
1 Corinthians 8
I recently introduced the topic of Paul’s discussion on eating food sacrificed to idols from 1 Corinthians 8-10. Folks can pop over to my first post to catch up on the background info.
However, to provide a little recap:
It is my contention that Paul was doing much more than settling a dispute between factions of believers at
Gideon Delivers Israel – 6:28-7:25
The last judge I introduced was Gideon. He came from a well-to-do, wealthy and influential family. He was also a skeptical, sign-seeking, questioner of God. When the Angel of the LORD chose him to defend Israel, he excused himself by claiming he was a big nothing among the people of Israel. Yet, in spite of
An Overview of 1 Corinthians 8-10
I have been meaning for a while now to post some of my studies on 1 Corinthians that I presented to my volunteers at Grace to You over the last year. I was particularly anxious to toss up my studies on chapters 8-10, because I believe they are so wildly misunderstood by the larger Christian community.
But
I wanted to offer some comments on this post,
Aquinas or Van Til? Testimony of a campus minister
It was written in response to a talk that Scott Oliphint gave at the ReformedCon 2016 conference called Reformed or Romanist? Dr. Oliphint reviewed and critiqued a book entitled Evangelical Exodus, a collection of testimonies by former students
The Calling of Gideon – Judges 6
Of all the accounts recorded in Judges, Gideon’s is unique in that his is probably the longest one with the exception of Samson. Gideon’s judgeship and its aftermath covers four chapters, 6-9.
His account can be divided into two sections. Chapters 6-8 tell of Gideon’s deliverance of Israel
So recently on twitter, I had a back and forth with a Reasons to Believe apologist.
It began this way:
I tweeted out the following,
The next day, an associate of Reasons to Believe, tweeted to me the following response,
Now in fairness, he is absolutely correct. I had mis-tweeted, as it were. Technically, Ross, and RTB apologists, argue that there
I had the privilege once again to join the BTWN fellas to kick around a few topics. First, we discussed what church growth should look like for a congregation. Then we turned to Christian potheads, man. And then we spent the remainder of our time in a spirited discussion about whether or not Christian parents can send their kids to public school.
Peter Ruckman died. In a Chick tract-style nightmare, he was stripped naked and hauled by a gigantic angel to stand before a glowing outline of Jesus as the universe watched his entire life play out on a enormous drive-in movie screen.
Ruckman was the grandfather of 20th-century wild-eyed, kooksville KJV Onlyism. He was to KJVOlyism what Rousas
I wanted to offer some comments on a recent radio/podcast discussion between Sye Ten Bruggencate, who maintains the Proof That God Exists website, and apologist Eric Hernandez of Eric Hernandez Ministries. They were together on the Sin Boldly Podcast discussing apologetic methodology. Sye took the presuppositional position, Eric the classicist
Deborah and Barak – Judges 4-5
As I come to book of Judges this time, we encounter an unique story: the Judges Deborah and Barak.
Two things make this story unique:
First, there are two chapters devoted to describing the events. Chapter 4 provides us with the historical narrative. The chapter contains a lot of Hebrew waw consecutives that tell
I’ve been laying out my case as to how I believe continuationism is not a non-essential, second-tier doctrinal issue.
As I explained in two previous posts on this subject, see HERE and HERE, continuationism is a disastrous doctrine both in the church and with individuals because it has massive influence upon the way people think about
So I had a critic link me to some web forum comments he made against my posts I’ve been writing exposing the spiritual shamanism of continuationism. I wanted to offer up some responses to various, selected thoughts.
My challenger writes,
Fraud predominates in continuationism, yet Pentecostalism testifies overall being among most committed to
I have taken up explaining why I believe continuationism is not a non-essential doctrinal issue. My previous post introduced my basic thoughts on the matter, but just a quick recap:
Contrary to what is generally agreed upon among garden variety Evangelicals and Christian denominations, I don’t believe continuationism, or charismaticism, or
The last month or so, I have been introduced to the Hardcore History podcast hosted by Dan Carlin.
Now, I am guessing, that originally, these history talks/lessons started out as a general podcast, but as they were produced, Carlin had such an amazingly awesome way of presenting the material, that Amazon’s Audible picked it up and began
I am becoming convinced more and more every day that continuationism/charismaticism is not just a non-essential doctrinal issue for Christians.
My thinking about this started shortly after the Strange Fireconference as I engaged continuationist critics on social media. They denounced the conference with such fervent descriptions as
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