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We Don't Get to Decide Who God Is

Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening? Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh. –James 3:11-12 My pastor…
Sinners Judging Sinners: A Long, Hard Look at the Gospel We Preach

Not many should become teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive a stricter judgment, for we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a mature man who is also able to control…
Will Those Who Haven't Heard the Gospel Go to Heaven or Hell?

In John 15, Jesus says, "If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin." This is one of the most-often misunderstood passages of scripture, and on…
Sharing the Good News at the Back to the Word of God Conference

By The Closet Calvinist Yet I will leave seven thousand in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.”1st Kings 19:18 A few weeks ago I returned from Norway, wher…
Book Review: The World-Tilting Gospel

By The Closet Calvinist Dan Phillips, of PyroManiacs fame, wrote “The World-Tilting Gospel” as a corrective of the broken “Gospel” that has infected much of the visible Church. It seems many pr…
I Do Love The Bible

A couple days ago I wrote a blog post about the Bible. I just wanted to clear the air a little bit because I don't want anyone to get the wrong idea about what I said or meant. I'm not a great writer and I know my inten…
Peace in the Luke’s Gospel

By Nic Don at Theopolitical Peace is a central concern of Luke’s gospel, and is often linked with “glory.” The well-known Christmas phrase has “Glory to God in the highest, meanwhile peace on ear…
Give Everything

By T.G. Blankenship at The Gethsemane Blog In the New Testament we are given a picture of what the Church looked like when she was very young and very close to Christ and his teachings. We are told that the Church was ch…
Pastors Standing in the Way: Walther on Pastors and Preaching

By The Closet Calvinist Proper Distinction of Law and Gospel, Walther THIRTY-FIFTH EVENING LECTURE September 18, 1885 Jesus says regarding Himself in John 14:6, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No on…
Who Is Jesus? (Part Five)

Yeshua didn’t care about popularity, As he had told Satan: We are to worship and serve ONLY God! In short, he was different. Yeshua went throughout the land healing many afflictions like palsy, leprosy, and blindne…