I believe John Piper’s tweet demonstrates clearly the illogical view Calvinism holds on the sovereignty of God. I have always questioned the logic of Calvinism. I remember learning the TULIP in bible college and did not agree with many of the points. Recently, I read John Piper’s tweet on X, and it immediately shocked me. …
Biases are the same as unjust weights. If you are a reader of mine, you are a truth lover, so I know we can find truth together. Here is a problem: We get accustomed to a particular view of things, and anything threatening us is scary. What we tend to do is find things that …
Jesus’ Gospel was the gospel of the kingdom. 23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. 24 And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that …
Will humanity get worse and worse? Previously I wrote about cognitive ease and how it can cause us to accept things that may not be true. I recently started questioning something that I have heard so many times I cannot count it. It is the well-accepted concept that things will get worse and worse before …
Does the Bible say the world will get worse and worse? Read More »
I am not wishing for it, but I see the death of the King James Bible (KJV). Please do not get me wrong; I am not hoping for the death of the KJV, but morning it. The faith in the KJV that I saw in the first fundamental Baptist church I attended started to change …
Every Christian is a saint! Back in the early 90s, I was at a preacher’s conference, you know, the kind where any preacher who wants to get up a preach can. Some preachers were going on about we are just a bunch of sinners that needed Jesus. Then Pastor Michael Wenzel from Faith Baptist Church …
Jesus called Christians to be good stewards and not complainers “Genesis commences with the creation of the world, because the heavens and the earth form the appointed sphere, so far as time and space are concerned, for the kingdom of God; because God, according to His eternal counsel, appointed the world to be the scene …
Understanding Biblical Literary Style. We need to understand that our expectations of the Biblical literary style may not be correct. As a 21st-century reader of the Bible, we can come to some ideas about its text that are probably incorrect. How we think about things can change slowly over time, and later generations can struggle …
Like it or not you need absolute truth. The need for truth I recently heard a report that most young people in America do not believe absolute truth exists, which concerns me for their sake. I know from experience that life is one and lost in our minds. What people believe about who they are …
The gift of tongues divided the early church. If you have not read my article on the gift of Biblical theology and the gift of tongues, please take a few moments to read it before continuing here. In 1 Corinthians chapter 12, the apostle Paul addresses the topic of spiritual gifts. Throughout the chapter, he …
The church is to have unity in diversity of gifts. Read More »
