What happens when someone violates your schedule? Do you act as if know everything, stepping in to comment when someone makes a verbal mistake? Are you a controlling person? And are you, at times, arrogant enough to think that there is no one out there that can give you advice and counsel?   Human beings... Continue Reading

Pastors’ wives have shared a common plight: they are very lonely. Indeed the transparency of these pastors’ wives is amazing. Many have shared with each other on this blog about their battles with depression. My desire to offer help to pastors’ wives has increased greatly. My respect and admiration of them has also grown significantly.... Continue Reading

When modern people look back at the Spanish Inquisition, there are particular things about it that they find deeply offensive. But perhaps among the most offensive is that these authorities forced people to say and do things that were against their consciences. They forced them to lie. They forced them to recant deeply held religious... Continue Reading

If we consider the history of the church, we find that the gift of languages was universally considered to be the supernatural ability to speak authentic foreign languages that the speaker had not learned.   We begin today’s post with a question: In New Testament times, did the gift of tongues produce authentic foreign languages only,... Continue Reading

Special revelation is indeed special. God has spoken, clearly revealing Himself to us through His inerrant word. Through His special revelation, we can know God, His creation, our fall, and our redemption that came from the Father through the Son and by the Holy Spirit. Everything we do, say, and display when we preach must serve... Continue Reading

The point is, cities such as Birmingham and San Francisco have very different spiritual climates.  And while people’s spiritual needs are the same everywhere, and the gospel is the same, and Christ is the same yesterday today and forever, it helps to understand  the climate were ministering in, just as Paul did in Athens.   Cities have... Continue Reading

As a movement, we treasure the individual getting right with God, the religious born-again experience, the innovative way to do mission. Sounds good, but when individual trumps communal, experience trumps received teaching, and innovation trumps the Great Tradition, you get exactly what we’ve all just lived through. It can go no other way.   It... Continue Reading

The Point University board plans to meet on February 24. Here are a few potential outcomes of the Point board meeting, though we are not certain what may unfold: The Point board may decide to affiliate with Montreat College and keep two residential programs, one in Georgia and one in North Carolina; the Point board... Continue Reading

I am troubled by movements which promise fresh experiences with God or a new movement of God and then market products to support this new outpouring. Those of us raised in conservative but non-confessional evangelicalism were steeped in that language. Everything had to be new and fresh. A steady sanctification wrought by God’s ordinary means... Continue Reading

Liberal biblical scholars are not honest brokers in pursuit of an objective truth about the Bible. They are dishonest truth suppressors peddling a false alternative religion. They don’t want the Bible to be true. If it were true, it would get in the way of their pursuit of their own sinful agenda, a pursuit which... Continue Reading