Posted in The Gospel, Christian Culture on May 15th, 2008 No Comments »
One of my favorite little books is gotta be RC Sproul’s Saved from What? It’s just an easy-to-read but profoundly-in-depth book about the gospel. And I’d strongly recommend it as a gift to unbelievers and/or new believers in the faith.
Sproul’s main thesis essentially surrounds the meaning of the cliche ‘Are you saved?’ or ‘I’ve been […]
Posted in Christian Living, Trials/Sufferings, Christian Culture on May 7th, 2008 2 Comments »
I often times find it hard to escape poor theology surrounding God’s love/favor. It just seems to be ingrained in our heads (and in our culture) that material blessings always equal God’s favor towards us.
Take the excerpt below for an example. In the book A Treatise on Earthly-Mindedness, the Puritan Jeremiah Burroughs states:
“For example, suppose […]
Posted in The Gospel, Calvinism, Christian Culture on Apr 15th, 2008 16 Comments »
“It is to be feared that Calvinistic doctrine becomes most evil teaching when it is set forth by men of ungodly lives, and exhibited as if it were a cloak for licentiousness; and Arminianism on the other hand, with its wide sweep of the offer of mercy, may do most serious damage to the souls […]
Posted in Misc, Calvinism, Christian Culture on Apr 8th, 2008 9 Comments »
This week I read a very insightful article by Tim Challies/Scott Lamb regarding the resurgence in Reformed Theology over the last few years. If you hold to Reformed Theology and are excited at what seems to be a great revival of God’s people back to the ‘Old Paths’ of biblical Christianity, I’d encourage you to […]
Posted in The Gospel, Christian Culture on Apr 4th, 2008 14 Comments »
I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven […]
Posted in Church, The Gospel, Christian Culture on Apr 1st, 2008 8 Comments »
Have you noticed how many people praise CH Spurgeon for his impact and ‘soul-winning’ and yet turn around and denounce the methodologies and theology upon which Spurgeon built his entire ministry? Spurgeon was the staunchest of Calvinists, a Sabbatarian, a holder to the 1689 London Baptist Confession, and he spoke out vehemently against those who […]
Posted in The Gospel, Christian Culture on Mar 28th, 2008 22 Comments »
From the Atlanta Journal Constitution today, a graduate of Southern Seminary and pastor of Sugar Hill Baptist Church in Gwinnett, GA, apologizes to those condemned by Christians:
Just as the Christian church has done many wonderful things throughout history, says the Rev. Richard Mark Lee, it also has done many terrible things, such as targeting, judging […]
Posted in Church, The Gospel, Christian Culture on Mar 27th, 2008 7 Comments »
In light of the discussion going on about my last blog post, both here and in my email inbox, I am re-posting an article I wrote back in January. Again, my focus is on these teachers and what they are saying; not on them personally or what they are doing. I hope this post […]
Posted in Church, The Gospel, Christian Culture on Mar 25th, 2008 16 Comments »
My friend Jim over at Oldtruth.com posted an interesting article the other day entitled: “The Number of Easter Salvations Was Exactly…” (UPDATE: Follow-up article here, and reference this page in your studies of this subject as well).
Essentially, Jim takes a quick look at some blogs where senior pastors are boasting of the […]
Posted in Christian Culture on Feb 12th, 2008 10 Comments »
This semester, I am taking an anthropology class at Kennesaw State University. This particular class is an online class (my first experience of such), and there is a good bit of discussion that must take place in a ‘classroom’ web forum.
Lots of discussion in a class like this usually means lots of debating. Homosexuality, evolution, […]
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