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Sunday School Class on Galatians

First, I want to tell you about our teacher Ben. After I told him that I am a Reformed Baptist, he told me he grew up baptist and graduated from a baptist seminary not long ago. He did not grow up with the 1689 though. He then came to embrace reformed theology and joined the [...]

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Sovereign Grace Fellowship Relief Fund

There are many charities and organizations one can give to for the recent hurricane disasters. The one in the link above is for some personal friends and their church. You can read more about them here. If you are able to help out these brothers and sisters monetarily please do. Most importantly please pray that [...]

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Pat Robertson: Turn the other cheek until nightfall

I just had to post about Robertson since I always question where these “moderate Muslims” are speaking out against these “radical Muslims” who engage in terrorism. No, I am not saying Robertson is engaging in terrorism, but he is seen internationally as a Christian leader and a political voice. And I, as simply a Christian [...]

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BFM2K has room for an admitted Arminian?

Recently, a local SBC church committee elected an admitted 5-point Arminian to the pastorate. The main reason is that the guy is nice, conservative & charasmatic. Not charasmatic as in pentecostal, but as in his personality. What’s wrong with having this man as their new pastor? Nothing except it’s against the BFM2K (Baptist Faith & [...]

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Not my own

A friend made a very touching blog entry which reminded me of something we recited as a response on Sunday morning. It is from the Heidelberg Catechism. Q. What is your only comfort in life and in death? A. That I am not my own, But belong – Body and soul, In life and in [...]

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Homeschooled but free?

I was in channel tonight and in the chats I learned something interesting. At Patrick Henry College two of the required reading texts are Norman Geisler’s Chosen But Free and Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology. That’s quite the combination. Geisler’s book is a biased book written in opposition to Calvinism and even misrepresents the theology. He [...]

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Responding justly (I hope)

I want to answer my good friend and brother, Russ, from a comment he made with questions to me. I figured I would make a new post to try a put forth a better understanding of where I stand. I am not 100% sure where I stand exactly on all the issues concerning political activism [...]

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Gospel Everyday: God Help Us Honor You Publicly

This isn’t a post directly about Justice Sunday, but some various thoughts spurred from some of the recent political activism. We’ve had two JS’ so far that are to work through the church to get the word out to get the right moral judges appointed. This has been done inside the church buildings with those [...]

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My Wedding, Honeymoon & Theology

So my buddy centuri0n calls me at the office today. I filled him in on the wonderful wedding and honeymoon and told him about the church we attended the day after the wedding. I was reminded of how slack I’ve been in updating my blog. Thanks, buddy! I also see that centuri0n may get to [...]

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The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship removes Jesus from its constitution.

The original article. Article II. Purpose The purpose of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (hereinafter, “the Fellowship”) is to bring together Baptists who desire to call out God’s gifts in each person in order that the Gospel of Jesus Christ will be spread throughout the world in glad obedience to the Great Commission. The Fellowship is [...]

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Flat Earth?

Remember growing up and being repeatedly told that “the church” up to and through the time of Christopher Columbus thought that the Earth was flat? Yea, I do to. Here is very brief article showing that this is a myth propagated years ago to make Christians look unscientific and out of touch with reality. Old [...]

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Quotes by…

This is the suggestion of the present hour:If the world will not come to Jesus….Shall not the church go down to the world? Instead of bidding men to be converted, and come out from among sinners, and be separate from them, let us join with the ungodly world, enter into union with it, and so [...]

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Jesus and The Hooters Girls

Click on the link above and check out Russell Moore’s latest commentary. I think my favorite quote is this one: What would it mean if our churches stopped encouraging our own teenage and preteen daughters to dress like Hooters Girls? What would it mean if we insisted that our young girls insist on being treated [...]

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Benedict XVI obstructing justice?

I understand that there are going to be people who see the new Pope as a religious conservative and will be dragging things up about him. Not sure why they think he cares or should care so much about the US political scene though. Even though the papacy is an unbiblical office I am glad [...]

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Visit to Southern Seminary

My wife and I just spent a wonderful few days up in Louisville, KY and I wanted to share some of it with you all. We attended the Spring Preview conference of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. This is a time when prospective students can come to the school, stay on campus, go to classes, [...]

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The Law (Continued)

Institutes of The Christian Religion. Book II. Chapter 8. 2. It is now easy to understand the doctrine of the law—viz. that God, as our Creator, is entitled to be regarded by us as a Father and Master, and should, accordingly, receive from us fear, love, reverence, and glory; nay, that we are not our [...]

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The Law

At my church we have been studying the “Way of the Master” Evangelization video series and I have been reading the corresponding book, “The Way of the Master”, by Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron. So far it has been very good. I might try to do a review when I am done reading it, although [...]

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Your Best Life Now by Joel Osteen reviewed

Daryl Wingerd over at Christian Communicators Worldwide (CCW) has a review of Osteen’s new book. CCW is a ministry of Jim Elliff who I met last year at a FIRE conference and chatted with at one of the book tables. Great guy and great material from this ministry. I recommend getting their periodic emails about [...]

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Ligonier Conference

Well, this is probably one of the lamest blogs around. I really haven’t had anything interesting to write about lately, and no time either. But I think I will let everyone know what a great trip I had last week at the Ligonier Conference in Orlando, Fl. A group from my church annually attends the [...]

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Romans 9:16 and the negation idiom

I just want to make a quick (not necessarily in depth) attempt to explain why I don’t agree that Romans 9:16 is a negation idiom. Reading Romans 9:16 as a negation idiom does not make sense given the context. If I understand correctly, a negation idiom does not exclude what is denied. In other words, [...]

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Age of accountability? A question

Many feel comfort in holding to an age of accountability in that they believe any child below that age is totally free from God’s wrath due to their innocence. Usually it’s brought up against those mean ole Calvinists because many say that if a child dies it is God’s electing grace that saves the child [...]

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Sharing an email I sent to Kelly Powers

Below is a quick email I sent to Kelly Powers of http://www.afcministry.com/ due to his recent interest in Calvinism and the positive acceptance of being called a young Dave Hunt. First I sent him a link to an open letter I wrote to him then jotted down a few more things. Anyways, below is the [...]

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All Sufficiency and Every (Part 1)

Sufficient. What does that mean? Here are some definitions: 1. Being as much as is needed. 2. Archaic. Competent; qualified. 3. Enough to meet the needs under the law of a situation or a proposed end. 4. Of a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant. All Scripture Is Breathed [...]

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Responding to unbelievers and taking communion

My words will be in regular text formating while the words from the article will be in blockquote and intalicized. Dear J. R., Thank you for your letter and insightful questions. I will attempt to answer your first question in this weeks ATP, and the other two over the next week (or two). The first [...]

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