Bible Study
Jeff Johnson and Michael Horton Debate Covenant Theology
This video contains the audio of the debate between Jeff Johnson (author of The Fatal Flaw and a valued contributor to this blog) and Michael Horton concerning the Credobaptist versus the Paedobaptist view of Covenant Theology. The debate took place at the 2012 Semper Reformanda Conference at Grace Family Baptist Church. It is a very…
James White Interacts With N.T. Wright on Justification
The above video contains a recent moderated radio discussion between James White and N.T. Wright concerning the Scriptural doctrine of justification. As always, James White does a good job of being fair and direct — and above all Scriptural — in discussing this important issue, which is at the heart of the debate over the…
Robert Gagnon on Homosexuality and the Bible
Dr. Robert Gagnon – What Does the Bible Teach About Homosexuality? from Pure Passion on Vimeo. Some of the blog’s readers may be familiar with Robert Gagnon as the author of The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics, which is an in-depth defense of the traditional Biblical view over against modern objections. In the above video…
"Gay Christianity" Refuted by James White
Matthew Vines has been gaining quite a following with his video entitled “The Gay Debate – The Bible and Homosexuality,” in which he tries to argue that homosexuality is not actually sin according to the Bible. But James White has offered a thorough response to his arguments, and he has made the audio available for download free…
Bob Gonzales on the Well-Meant Offer of the Gospel
If you aren’t already familiar with Dr. Gonzales’ series of posts regarding the “well-meant offer” of the Gospel, I encourage you to check them out. The first article suggests an update to the Baptist Confession of 1689, followed by a series of articles explaining the issue, the objections to the doctrine, and a defense of…
James White on the Reality and Blessing of Apostasy
I’m sure none of this blog’s readers would be surprised to see a message posted here entitled “The Reality of Apostasy,” but you may be surprised to see a message entitled “The Blessing Apostasy.” Well, I encourage you to listen to both of these messages from Dr. White, who offers both strong warning and great encouragement to…
Anger at God is Never Right
The following advice comes from an article entitled Go Ahead, Be Angry at God! by a liberal writer named R. Adam DeBaugh: Too often I hear people talk guiltily about feeling anger toward God. More often than not, we get angry at God over things over which we have no control. If we don’t control it,…
James White – Explanation and Refutation of Middle Knowledge
This video is from the second session from the Bible Conference at the Trinity Reformed Baptist Church in La Mirada, California, October 23, 2009. In it Dr. White does an excellent job of describing and responding to the doctrine of Middle Knowledge, also historically known as Molinism. The most influential and outspoken adherent of the…
Toward a Biblical Perspective on Depression: The Joy of the Lord
Although we could derive much teaching from the Old Testament about the joy promised to believers (e.g. Deut. 12:12; Ps. 16:11; 51:12; Isa. 61:10; Jer. 15:16), for the sake of brevity I am going to restrict our study here to the teaching of the New Testament, and even then I will only be able to…
Toward a Biblical Perspective on Depression: James 1:2-17
In my last post on this subject I wrote about how we can become more capable of ministering to others in their trials when we have first been comforted by God in our own trials, and I emphasized that such trials would include even the worst sorts of depression. In this post I want to us…