The Providence of God in Perryville, Arkansas: A One Year Update on Reformation
The Story A year ago I was discouraged. We had just had a frustrating SBC Annual meeting in...
Read Moreby Allen Nelson IV | Jul 24, 2023 | General | 0 |
The Story A year ago I was discouraged. We had just had a frustrating SBC Annual meeting in...
Read Moreby Allen Nelson IV | Nov 16, 2022 | Theology | 0 |
In my 3.5+ decades of life on earth, I have lived through a few “national crises”. Some things I...
Read Moreby Allen Nelson IV | Apr 25, 2022 | Theology | 2 |
In Ephesians 4:14, Paul desires that local churches “…may no longer be children, tossed to and fro...
Read Moreby Allen Nelson IV | Mar 14, 2022 | Theology | 2 |
In the previous two posts, we have walked through 5 points on the significance of Baptism. I am...
Read Moreby Allen Nelson IV | Mar 10, 2022 | Theology | 0 |
In the previous post, we began to walk through 8 wonderful realities that our Baptism points to....
Read Moreby Allen Nelson IV | Feb 21, 2022 | Theology | 0 |
Baptism and the Spirit In the New Testament, we recognize the word “baptism” is not only used to...
Read Moreby Allen Nelson IV | Feb 11, 2022 | Theology | 0 |
Consider the words of 17th century Baptist, Benjamin Keach (1640-1740), on Elders and Deacons: The...
Read Moreby Allen Nelson IV | Nov 18, 2021 | Evangelism, Theology | 0 |
Dear Unbelieving Mom, Dad, or Grandparent, Perhaps you are a flat-out denier of the truth of...
Read Moreby Allen Nelson IV | Nov 9, 2021 | Theology | 0 |
Is church membership a manmade idea or is it really biblical? In this short post, we’ll...
Read Moreby Allen Nelson IV | Oct 28, 2021 | Theology | 0 |
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines fortitude as “a quality of character combining courage and...
Read Moreby Allen Nelson IV | Mar 29, 2021 | Theology | 0 |
I may write a follow-up post on the nature of associations, but in today’s post, I just want...
Read Moreby Allen Nelson IV | Mar 1, 2021 | Theology | 0 |
I’m working on my master’s thesis with Grace Bible Theological Seminary and came...
Read Moreby Michael Coughlin | Jan 15, 2021 | General | 0 |
The following is what I told my church on January 10, 2021. Click here for the audio. Our...
Read Moreby Allen Nelson IV | Jun 19, 2020 | Theology | 3 |
Last Wednesday my wife had a bit of a toothache from a recent filling and so I offered to take our...
Read Moreby Allen Nelson IV | Jun 5, 2020 | Theology | 0 |
The 2019 annual church profile for the Southern Baptist Convention came out recently and the...
Read Moreby George Alvarado | Apr 27, 2020 | Theology | 2 |
I recently conversed with a young lady about why she left Christianity. More often than not, when...
Read Moreby Allen Nelson IV | Apr 6, 2020 | Theology | 0 |
Here I am, a Baptist writing a post against baptism. But actually, this post isn’t actually...
Read Moreby Allen Nelson IV | Oct 22, 2019 | Theology | 1 |
A familiar ding of the phone went off. (That’s right, I still walk around with my cellular...
Read Moreby Allen Nelson IV | Sep 30, 2019 | Theology | 0 |
Older generations like to make fun of all the selfies millennials take, and to an extent, that’s warranted. However, the selfie generation in America was here much earlier than the 1980s. The god of self didn’t come along with the iPhone. The iPhone is a fruit of idol worship, not the root of it.
The key attribute of the god of self is autonomy. Essentially autonomony means that “I get to do what I want because I am me. There is no one more important than me. In fact, you can’t spell awesome without ME” (I know, Taylor Swift song reference).
Read Moreby Allen Nelson IV | Sep 23, 2019 | Theology | 0 |
What a travesty when local churches are reckless with their doctrinal commitments, soteriological practices, commitment to the Scriptures, worship practices, and church leadership structure all because things are seemingly going “good.” Too many churches take confidence in current worship attendance numbers, weekly offerings, or baptism rates in order to justify practices that are setting up future generations to be taken captive by Babylon, thinking “Why not, if there will be peace and security in my days?”
Read Moreby Allen Nelson IV | Sep 18, 2019 | Theology | 0 |
A Parable Once upon a time, there was a mother with 7 sons. She loved her boys very much and they...
Read Moreby Allen Nelson IV | Jul 29, 2019 | Theology | 0 |
If you’re not a careful reader of Scripture you may have never noticed what Paul says to the...
Read Moreby Allen Nelson IV | Oct 18, 2018 | Theology | 0 |
We recently began a journey through the book of James at Perryville Second Baptist. As I studied...
Read Moreby Allen Nelson IV | Oct 2, 2018 | Theology | 3 |
The age of technology is a beautiful time to be alive. Social media has connected us, and there...
Read Moreby Allen Nelson IV | May 2, 2018 | Theology | 9 |
There is a trend that’s been around a few decades now about having a “non-denominational” church....
Read Moreby Allen Nelson IV | Apr 27, 2018 | Theology | 0 |
Pastoral duties, coaching little league baseball, and working to finish both the From Death to...
Read Moreby Allen Nelson IV | Mar 15, 2018 | Theology | 6 |
The ushers were friendlier than I expected as we came through the front door. We weren’t...
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