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 God be gracious to them that they may be resilient in their faith during this time of need. I bid everyone as my brother Frank has done to do something. Read Frank’s post (even his whole blog) it has some good links in it. Thanks, …keep reading »

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 & Message 2000) which is the official statement of faith adhered to by this SBC church. Quoting the BFM2K we read: V. God’s Purpose of Grace Election is the gracious purpose of God, according to which He regenerates, justifies, sanctifies, and glorifies sinners. It is consistent …keep reading »

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 calls plain ole Calvinism “extreme Calvinism” and his version “moderate Calvinism”. While Grudem is a Calvinist and his book is actually a text book on systematic theology. I don’t really see how these two books go together. It would seem that since Geisler’s book is …keep reading »

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 who don’t have the gospel. I believe this causes confusion to the outsiders looking in as well as those who are doctrinally weak sitting in the pews. My focus isn’t soley on this particular subject at the moment though. We publically, nationally promote getting the …keep reading »

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 committed to the preservation and propagation of individual and historic Baptist freedoms and distinctives, including the priesthood of all believers, the acceptance of the authority of the Bible without the aid of creeds, the autonomy of each church, and the separation of church and state …keep reading »

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 pervade it with our influence by allowing it to influence us. Let us have a Christian world…Certain ministers are treacherously betraying our holy religion under pretense of adapting it to this present age. The new plan is to assimilate the church to the world by …keep reading »

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 he is morally conservative….I think. Anyways, in the link above there is a story that should not be hidden. I get so tired of hearing the Roman Catholic argument that they are the one true church, etc. The article alleges that this new so called …keep reading »

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 own, to follow whatever course passion dictates, but are bound to obey him implicitly, and to acquiesce entirely in his good pleasure. Again, the Law teaches, that justice and rectitude are a delight, injustice an abomination to him, and, therefore, as we would not with …keep reading »

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 the new material as it comes available. Below is the first paragraph from the article linked in the title line above. It may seem foolish to disagree theologically with the man who pastors the largest congregation in America. Thirty-thousand adults attend Joel Osteen’s church every …keep reading »

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, “not only….but also”. An example may be: “the child did not cross the road, it was the mother who crossed” we could understand this to mean “the child did not only cross the road, but also the mother crossed”. In whatever given context it may …keep reading »