Brethren - there is NEVER an appropriate time or circumstance to force meaning or personal views onto Scripture. It is never appropriate, regardless of your intentions, to pluck Scripture out of its context, then bend it back double to paint a picture or prove a point to "reach a hurting person". The formal term for … Continue reading Please Stop Abusing Scripture
Apologetics: A word that is often misunderstood. It does not in any way point to sorrow or grief or an "apology". Apologetics is the defense of a belief or system. When we, as Christians, fulfill the command of 2 Timothy 4:2 to "be ready in season and out to give reason for the hope … Continue reading Apologetics and the Christian Faith
We in the Christian/Church realm use the term "faithful" a lot. Why not? It is an extremely important term used across the Bible. Sadly, I believe our contemporary (especially American version) gospel realm has adopted the secular, wordly meaning instead of the Biblical definition and example. As the image shows, the Webster's definition of "faithful" … Continue reading What Does It Mean to Be Faithful?
We Baptists, particularly conservative Associational Baptists, lay claim to the Bible as our sole foundation for belief and practice. Of course, we have stretched some aspects into tradition, but the foundation we try to keep is Scripture. Yet one denomination of Baptists is about to pull itself apart (and I fear others that have historically … Continue reading The Bible vs Women In The Pulpit – Division
Do you think your church is biblically-solid and that it could never succumb to modernistic adulteration of God's Word? You might want to think again. Just a few months ago, the Southern Baptist Convention voted to recognize and implement "Critical Race Theory" and "Intersectionality" as valid measures and procedures for measuring the denomination's "progress". For … Continue reading Is Your Church or Denomination Going #WOKE?
I have made plenty of mistakes in my life, from economic to moral, from spiritual to physical. When I was a child, my parents tried to be selective in when and how they would "bail me out" of the consequences of my errors, all with the intent of guiding me to learn from my mistakes. … Continue reading Responsibility, Decisions, Accountability, and Politics
Stop it... just stop! What? Quit abusing Scripture to affirm your viewpoint and agenda - especially in the hot-button issue of immigration. I don't care if your view point may very well be the "moral one" - if you are abusing Scripture to prove it - I can't support you. Here in the US, we … Continue reading Immigrants, Immigration, and the Abuse of Scripture
Have you ever stopped and noticed what really causes people to become outraged? I have posted previously on the subejct - particularly on things like #blacklivesmatter, where the message is ONLY certain colors of lives matter. But it would seem that the problem is only getting more dramatic. Now - many of the issues that … Continue reading Selective Outrage is ALWAYS Outrageous!
For those that don't know, the ERLC is the social justice wing of the Southern Baptist Convention. Formed under the auspices of helping to promoted the gospel and its power to address social problems, it has become a mouthpiece not for the rank-and-file, Bible-believing Southern Baptist church member, but for the politically-motivated, doctrinally-liberal, Social Justice … Continue reading My Message to Russell Moore and the ERLC
I have waited to pen this post for my emotions and news to settle down. Yet despite a couple of days passing and even allowing myself to vent a bit on social media via various memes and shot statements, my emotions and my burden have not diminished. You see, just this week, on the 48th … Continue reading A Nation that Hates God
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