I have some close friends who are Catholic and we have talked candidly about salvation by grace through faith in Christ. A church member from another church once said to me, “Catholics are Christians.” My response was there are Catholics who are Christians just as there are Baptists and Methodists who are Christians. I also [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Are Evangelicals Catholic?
Posted: March 27, 2010 in SalvationTags: Catechism of the Catholic Church, Council of Trent, Evangelical Catholics, Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma, Keith A. Fournier, Ludwig Ott, R. C. Sproul's Faith Alone, Vatican II, Wayne Grudem
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Amillennialism and Revelation 20
Posted: March 26, 2010 in End Time Events, PreterismTags: Amillennialism, Augustine's The City of God, Dwight Pentecost, George N. H. Peters, John Walvoord, Oswald T. Allis, Prophecy and the Church, R. C. Sproul's The Last Days according to Jesus, Robert Thomas, The Theocratic Kingdom, Things to Come
R. C. Sproul gives an overview of the millennial views. He formerly was amillennial but more recently has changed to preterism.This video series is based on his book The Last Days according to Jesus. Walvoord defines amillennialism in his introduction to Revelation 20: “The amillennial interpretation is essentially a denial that there will be a millennial reign of Christ [...]
What is Replacement Theology?
Posted: March 26, 2010 in The ChurchTags: Amillennialism Today, Arnold G. Fruchenaum, Essays in Honor of J. Dwight Pentecost, Issues in Dispensationalism, Replacement theology, S. Lewis Johnson, William E. Cox
Replacement theology states that the church has replaced Israel and is the new Israel to the point of saying that the two terms in the New Testament are synonymous. Arnold Fruchtenbaum attributes this view to William E. Cox in his Amillennialism Today on pages 46-47. Fruchtenbaum presents a powerful refutation to the claim that the [...]
Origin of the Soul
Posted: March 19, 2010 in SinTags: A. H. Strong, Charles Hodge, Louis Berkhof, Millard Erickson, Origin of the soul, Preexistent of souls, Robert Reymond, Wayne Grudem
What does the statement “Like father like son” mean? Of course it means we are like our parents in some ways. We inherited something from mom and dad. What did we inherit? Perhaps our looks or the lack of looks. Mannerisms. Personality. I was in Cracker Barrel once and was reading some of the signs [...]
Sermon on Habakkuk: How to Handle What Life Throws at You! Part 2
Posted: March 16, 2010 in SermonsTags: James Dobson's When God Doesn't Make Sense, Jim Conway
Habakkuk charged God with injustice on a national level in 1:4. Job is similar to Habakkuk except Job accused God with injustice on a personal level. Job lost his ten children in tragic deaths, his wealth, and his health. Job said God was wrong in Job 19:7. Perhaps our struggle with God is more on [...]
Sermon from Habakkuk: How to Handle What Life Throws at You! Part 1
Posted: March 12, 2010 in SermonsTags: Habakkuk, Jim and Sally Conway, The Alan Guttmacher Institute
Life, sometimes, is hard. There was a little boy named Chris, whose face had been burned in a fire. He sent this note to his psychotherapist: Dear Dr. Gardner. Some big person, it was a boy about 13, he called me a turtle. And I know he said this because of my plastic surgery. And [...]
Spiritual Warfare of Prayer, Part 2
Posted: March 7, 2010 in Ephesians ClassTags: George Mueller, Henry and Richard Blackaby, Spirtual Leadership
1. By Always Being Able to Pray “Praying always” 2. By Praying all Kinds of Prayer “All prayer and supplication” (There are private, family, silent, audible, mealtime, congregational, set time, and emergency prayers) A. “Prayer” is a general word for prayer as in worship. We worship when we give to Him as Psalm 29:1-2 illustrate. [...]
Week 13: The NEW Bible Institute on Ephesians: The Spiritual Warfare of Prayer, Part 1
Posted: March 4, 2010 in Ephesians ClassTags: A. W. Tozer, Harold W. Hoehner's Ephesians: An Exegetical Commentary, John MacArthur
Week 13 Assignment: Read pages 375-385 in MacArthur on Ephesians 6:18-24. Read and comment on the two posts (Parts 1-2) for our final week. Three statesments leap out to me from these verses! 1. The Christian life is a battleground. Tozer captured the worldview of the worldly: “Men think of the world, not as a battleground, but as a [...]
How to Handle Critics! (For Preachers Only)
Posted: March 2, 2010 in Homiletics/Preaching, Pastoral TheologyTags: Andy Stanley, Brian Tracy, Charles H. Spurgeon, J. Oswald Sanders' Spiritual Leadership, John Maxwell, Mark Driscoll, Maximum Achievement, Michael Duduit, Preaching Now, Vintage Church
Spurgeon would occasionally find a nasty anonymous letter lying on his pulpit when he would stand up to preach. There would be a letter but no name. One day he got to the pulpit and there was a piece of paper with one word written in large letters….IDIOT…. So Spurgeon said to his congregation, “Normally [...]
