persecution = preservation for the Christian

I might as well publish these thoughts while I’m here meditating on God’s Word.  Micah has stirred me up to continuing this process by reminding me of salts preservative quality.  This has led me to think about faith, grace, and testing through persecution as having preserving effects as well.  Not only for the believer but [...]

dispensationalism: why I have begun to disagree

I have been taught dispensationalism for most of my life growing up in Southern Baptist Churches but more recently have been finding biblical texts that seem to contradict what I have been taught. This is an excerpt from a publication that I found on another message board. I have taken a few of the points [...]

radical faith = salt and light?

As I have been thinking about radical faith in the face of suffering and persecution I have noticed a pattern in scripture before that I had never before noticed or had called to my attention. I’ll lay my deductions out there and any who read this can decide for themselves whether it is true or [...]

The importance of pondering the wrath of God

Sin.  Everyone of us at some point in our life have loved to do it.  We ignore God and His providence and His promises and His love shown to us through His law and have done life our way.  We want our best life now when He has promised us our best life then (in [...]

Beowulf and Jesus

I haven’t been writing on my blog at all for a while due to a very busy schedule but since I have a few spare moments I would like to share some reflections I had during some movie time spent with my sweet wife last night.  We watched the movie Beowulf together and as usual [...]

Vintage Jesus

It has finally arrived!  The pdf copy of Mark Driscoll’s new book Vintage Jesus just popped up into my e-mail box and I began reading it today.  I have downloaded it and decided to peek at it only to discover that I may finish reading it before the hard copy arrives.  Honestly, it is much [...]

Halloween sale on Reformation Study Bible (ESV)

 Ligonier has given us a reason to celebrate on October 31st.  According to Sproul, no other study bible has the resources contained in this edition of the Reformation Study Bible.  Previously available as the New Geneva Study Bible and the Reformation Study Bible NKJV, it is now available in ESV and available for one day only at [...]

limited atonement?

As many of you know, I have a yearning to understand reformed (Calvinistic) theology and have been wrestling with many of the doctrines contained therein for quite some time. Over this period, my understanding of election, free will, sinfulness, grace, justification, sovereignty, and the utter sinfulness of man (among other things) has been changed through [...]

Re:Lit Vintage Jesus by Mark Driscoll and Dr. Garry Breshears

the first book is available for pre-sale in this new line of books and there are incentives for those interested in buying early at Crossway including 35% off, early release PDF for blogging about, and a signed copy for the first 1000 purchases.. “In Vintage Jesus, one of America’s most influential young pastors teams up with [...]

self sufficiency in the Trinity

God is fully self-sufficient and does not need us to be who He is.  God is love … with or without man and I wonder how someone who denies the Trinity would deal with the issue of God’s being fully self suffifient before the creation of man. God is love.  God is just.  God is [...]