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 The Gospel, Church History, Calvinism on Apr 24th, 2008 8 Comments »
I came across an excerpt from Spurgeon the other day which struck quite a cord with me. It is something a little different than what we’re used to reading from him.
Do you agree with Spurgeon below? Why or why not?
“…those who never exhort sinners are seldom winners of souls to any great extent, but they […]
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 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 The Gospel, Trials/Sufferings on Feb 23rd, 2008 3 Comments »
I enjoyed the video below by John Piper (thanks to purgatorio, again). Check out below and then see a few of my follow-up comments:
Though Piper’s point is very true and well-taken, I believe a more insidious version of the same ‘gospel’ is also making huge waves in the church. Specifically, most of who we’d refer […]
Posted in The Gospel on Feb 19th, 2008 12 Comments »
I’ve mentioned before that 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.
A recent question was posed by the professor which was along […]
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