Since God is God and He could have orchestrated human events any way he chose, it behooves us to ask the question why did he do the thing he did. Could God have done things a different way. Specifically...If salvation (and thus the cross) was [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
“For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 17 For when he received honor and glory from God the Father, and the voice was borne to h [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
The scope of this post is to demonstrate the necessity of every doctrine’s correspondence with every other found in Scripture. I want to prove that when we think wrongly about God or truth at one point, then that wrong thinking or belief, if taken b [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
How would you define the act of preaching? That word in our culture carries nothing but bad connotations with it, sadly EVEN among those who would call themselves Christians. If you’ve been in contemporary Churchianity very long, chances are y [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
So I was in a conversation this Thanksgiving day weekend with another pastor of a Christian Church. (Just in case you don't know, a "Christian Church" is actually a denomination. It is a sister church of the Church of Christ.) Now [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
This IS what we were created for according to Isaiah 43:7--"Everyone that is called by name, whom I have created for my glory, I have made him, yes I have formed him" So...if that is what we were created for, how do we glorify him? To thi [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
While I was reading the Scriptures this morning, I was struck with the design of God's word. Two psalms (I'm sure there's more) that I came across-111 & 112-are both acrostic psalms. That is to say that each line begins with the successive [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
So many times have I heard people say that 'the Pharisees knew Scripture far better than anyone else, and look where that got them!' Knowing Scripture in that sense will always take us to that end--spiritual death. The Pharisees knew the words [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
This being my first post, I would like to start out with a question and an explanation. A very basic question that everybody should ask, but a large number don't; and an explanation for the title of this blog. First the question: Why did [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
