Archive for August 2016
Think About IT: The Future Is God’s and Not Ours
The future belongs to God, and we are not God. How quick we are to guarantee the future. People frequently speak about the future with certainty, but God rarely discloses our personal future. When we speak about the future with phrases like “I will never” or “This will never” or other such phrases of future…
Read MorePastors Dare Not Become Enablers of Spiritual Milkoholics
I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able (1 Corinthians 3:2) Note the past tense verb, gave milk, referring to times in the past when Paul taught the Corinthians milk because they were not ready for meat and that…
Read MoreThe Pastor’s Idol
If preachers are not constantly studying things that challenge them spiritually and intellectually, then it is disingenuous for them to challenge the church to study the deep things of God and spend time with Him.
Read MoreDecoding Calvinism: Does Unconditional Election Include a Forced Change, a Freely Chosen Change, or Both?
There are many examples of confusing language regarding man’s free exercise of faith in Calvinism. Lewis Sperry Chafer responds to Arminians rejection of the term “sovereign grace” and their charge that such coerces or annuls the human will by saying, “No step can be taken in the accomplishment of His sovereign purpose which will even…
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