God Is in My Head? May 20, 2009

Science, as it turns out, has an answer for everything. Apparently science has come so far that we are now able to diagnose men and women of the past with very specific neurological problems which caused them to see, hear, and therefore believe and say certain things pertaining to the spiritual life. All that to [...]

When the Great Ones Go May 11, 2009

My pastor, Dr. Hershael York, had to bid his father farewell this past Sunday. Wallace York, a lifelong missionary and pastor, went to be with the Lord after a battle with a strange set of medical ailments. As I understand it, this was his first stay in a hospital. As I write this, Dr. York’s [...]

Real Naked Women Are Just Bad Porn April 29, 2009

When I was formulating a worldview of sex and sexuality – thinking about women and how to relate to them – I had a lot of help from Playboy. Starting very young, I was exposed to the explicit images of pornography from friends of mine whose fathers dabbled in the dark side of sex. This [...]

Who Said It? April 22, 2009

“How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we [...]

Head Down and Mouth Shut April 23, 2008

In the early 1800’s, baptist churches in America had reached a point where it was becoming increasingly difficult to maintain doctrinal purity through creeds. Church members were also beginning what we know today as the church hop. Now it wasn’t what you have in mind when you think of church hopping, as a matter of [...]

A Particular Bibliography April 7, 2008

I’m writing a paper on the extent of the atonement for Systematic Theology II which is due in one week. Here is the bibliography.

Bavinck, Herman. Reformed Dogmatics: Sin and Salvation in Christ. vol. 3. Edited by John Bolt. Translated by John Vriend. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006.
Boyd, Gregory A., Joel B. Green, Bruce R. Reichenbach, [...]

On the Rise March 27, 2007

Two more good articles on church discipline from Baptist Press here and here.

Benefits of Church Discipline – Part Five March 27, 2007

This is a wonderful story of redemption and what church discipline is all about. I personally know John and he is a wonderful encouragement to our entire congregation. Read and enjoy the article and then stop and pray for John that he would continue to have victory over his sin and that the Lord would [...]

Books, Books, Books March 22, 2007

I know I’m not the biggest bibliophile out there. My library wouldn’t hold a candle to some of your libraries. However, for the interest of those that did not go to Shepherd’s Conference and always like to know what they were giving away, I am including the list of books that came home with me [...]

Universal or Reversable March 22, 2007

I love both of these guys. One is more or less my father in the faith. The other a key leader in evangelicalism to which I am indebted through his work in my seminary and in a couple of books he wrote on Open Theism. Listen to the exchange of ideas and see which one [...]

Is Believing a Universal Atonement Biblical? February 15, 2007

Now just wait a minute. Calm down and take a deep breath. If you just stripped off your shirt and painted your face blue after reading my title then I suggest you should promptly close your internet browser and go pet a kitten or something. Now, have we pulled ourselves together?
Good.
I ran across somebody the [...]

Benefits of Church Discipline – Part Two January 21, 2007

Christians sin. I know, I know, stop the presses! Call an executive meeting and kick the dog! I’ve just solved all the pastoral woes for everyone wondering why in the world their people are so miserable. Well, that’s it – Christians sin.
Which one of us hasn’t used the tired old joke, “Boy I would sure [...]

Benefits of Church Discipline – Part One January 14, 2007

I have been on both sides of the table when it comes to church discipline. It is most definitely a painful experience to have your darkest sins laid out on a table in full view of the ones you love and respect. It is also most definitely a painful experience to lay out on a [...]