The ministry has to help the congregation understand difficult and hard things in Scripture. But without learning this will not be possible. Unless ministers themselves have studied these “difficult” and “hard” things they will not be able to help their congregation understand the scriptures and so grow in grace.   In our first and second... Continue Reading

“My goal is — if they’re pro-choice — is to give them something they’ll think about,” he said. “That’s it. I don’t think we want to say people will not change their minds. I’m open to having my mind changed. I could be wrong. And then the way I keep an open mind is to... Continue Reading

While warning against the flagrant abuses of Constantinianism, (Adams) also noted that most early American colonies united faith with franchise. Here is how he raises the establishment question: “In thus discontinuing the connection between Church and Commonwealth—did the people of these States intend to renounce all connection with the Christian religion?”   The Rev. Jasper... Continue Reading

“Some leaders will only have people in their inner-circles who pander to their need to feel superior. They do not want people around them who disagree with them or speak into their lives. These leaders continually fall for flattery which opens a huge door for satanic deception.”   By definition, a narcissist is a person... Continue Reading

Everyone will be confronted with their finiteness, their limitations, at some point. Mine has come in the form of three children ages three and under. So I’m going to wave my white flag of surrender as a testimony to the fact that I cannot do it all, I am not super mom, and I need... Continue Reading

Today most Evangelicals have a negative and narrow view of what “Fundamentalism” was, thinking only in terms of its legalistic prohibitions on drinking, smoking, card playing, and movies. And though the movement fell apart for a number of other reasons as well, many Christians don’t realize how deeply indebted we are to those who stood... Continue Reading

One by one, my objections evaporated. I read books by skeptics, but their counter-arguments crumbled under the weight of the historical data. No wonder atheists so often come up short in scholarly debates over the resurrection. In the end, after I had thoroughly investigated the matter, I reached an unexpected conclusion: it would actually take... Continue Reading

But he’d become convinced of Christianity.  He was unwilling to go to church, however, because he was worried about what his friends and business associates would think of him.  Simplicius would say, “I will believe it when I see you at church,” and Victorinus would respond, “Is it the four walls that make a Christian,... Continue Reading

According to Wycliffe, a raid took place on the translators’ office. Two of the translators were shot and killed, while another two died of wounds from being beaten. These last two managed to protect and save the lead translator by lying on top of him while the militants beat them with their now-empty weapons.  ... Continue Reading

“Too often churches are marked by the tread of mavericks racing over them along their eclectic joy rides that prove more eccentric than ecclesiastical.  Warfield cautions us to yield to our more trustworthy systematic theology.”   It is not uncommon for our church to receive protests for being careful adherents to the historic Westminster Standards;... Continue Reading