Impute /imˈpyo͞ot/ verb - to reckon to one what does not belong to himMuch debate throughout the history of the church orbits around this one word: imputation. The doctrine of imputation asserts that at salvation, when you or [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
"Behold now, the words of the prophets are uniformly favorable to the king. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak favorably." 1 Kings 22:13These are the words that the messenger spoke to Micaiah, the prophet of the LO [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
"LORD, you have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God." Psalm 90:1-2Every single one of God's attributes [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
One of my favorite psalms is found in Psalm 87:2-3 where the LORD speaks of His violent affections for the church. "The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the other dwelling places of Jacob. Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
One of the things that has struck me about the differences between this life and the next is that in this life everything is mixed. With the sweet comes the bitter. With the joy comes the sorrow. There is never a time on this side of Jes [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Many have charged the doctrine of imputed righteousness of producing an antinomian spirit. If, it is reasoned, there is nothing left for the believer to do in order to inherit eternal life, then there is no motive for holy living. Therefore th [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
It is a vain charge that men bring against God's law, that it is rigorous, sever, and difficult. Besides the fact that this contradicts Jesus' own testimony that "My yoke is easy," and that "My burden is light," it also contradicts plain reason and [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
If you have not heard this phrase yet, it has become the new nomenclature for "churches" that have refused to be either gay affirming nor gay denying, but instead have discovered a third way in which neither of these positions is adopted. If that s [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Now once our proper end in education is determined, this informs what the real and proper subjects are. So what are the real subjects in education? Reading, writing, arithmetic? Or perhaps history, philosophy, science, the languages, ci [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
When we are speaking about ends and means, we are speaking about the goals and the processes by which it takes to achieve those goals. Mortimer Adler in his book Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind says this about approaching any... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]