Christian Living
Is Age Segregated Sunday School Biblical? – Part 3
In Part 1 of this series, I discussed how it is that we may discern whether or not a ministry practice is Biblical. I hope all would agree with me that we may deem a practice to be Biblical not only if it is in keeping with Biblical prescriptions or precedents, while avoiding running afoul…
Download R.C. Sproul’s Crucial Questions eBooks For Free
Today I received an email from Ligonier Ministries informing me that the entire Crucial Questions eBook series by R.C. Sproul is now being made available for free forever. Here is what the webpage announcement says: To further help Christians know what they believe, why they believe it, how to live it, and how to share…
Is Age Segregated Sunday School Biblical? – Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, I discussed how it is that we may discern whether or not a ministry practice is Biblical. I hope all would agree with me that we may deem a practice to be Biblical not only if it is in keeping with Biblical prescriptions or precedents, while avoiding running afoul…
For Mother’s Day: Honoring Your Mother
Introduction: Perhaps one of the single greatest examples of a man’s honoring of his mother can be found in the account of Solomon honoring his mother: NKJ 1 Kings 2:19 Bathsheba therefore went to King Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her and bowed down to her,…
Is Age Segregated Sunday School Biblical? – Part 1
How to Determine Whether or Not a Practice is Biblical Today I am beginning a three part series that seeks to answer the question, “Is age segregated Sunday school Biblical?” But in order to answer the question, it seems to me that we must begin by establishing what we mean when we ask it. We…
"If the Family Is Central, Christ Isn’t" by John B. Carpenter
In a recent article published at The Christian Post website, yet another Reformed Baptist pastor has weighed in on the Family Integrated Church Movement. In an article entitled If the Family Is Central, Christ Isn’t, John B. Carpenter, pastor of Covenant Reformed Baptist Church (in Caswell County, North Carolina, in the Danville, Virginia area) has…
Some Thoughts From Proverbs About Our Speech
Note: The following post is a teaching outline that I hope will be beneficial to the blog’s readers. Introduction: The June 15, 1992, entry of Today in the Word asks: Can it be that the average person spends one-fifth of his or her life talking? That’s what the statistics say. If all of our words…
A Shout Out to Housewives
I am pastor who is happily married to a beautiful housewife. And, the more I learn about her job the more I am amazed at her high calling in life. I am beginning to think that it may be a housewife that God has ordained to sit on the right side of the Lord in…
What do the ancient Mayans and Harold Camping have in common?
Neither are any good at predicting the end of the world. Perhaps this is a good time to remember what Jesus said to His disciples just before His ascension, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority” (Acts 1:7 NKJ).
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…