The Omniscience of God and Determinism
The future is determined. Even the thought you just had about that sentence was determined from...
Read MorePosted by Allen Nelson IV | Jan 3, 2020 | Theology |
The future is determined. Even the thought you just had about that sentence was determined from...
Read MorePosted by Allen Nelson IV | Dec 27, 2019 | Theology |
On December 19, 2019, Dave Miller ran a piece over at SBC Voices where he quoted Dr. Tom Ascol,...
Read MorePosted by Allen Nelson IV | Dec 27, 2019 | Theology |
We’ve been walking through Genesis 4:6-7 in these posts and today we want to look at our response....
Read MorePosted by Allen Nelson IV | Dec 24, 2019 | Theology |
Whether or not the liturgical calendar is even on your radar, we hope these devotions give you an...
Read MorePosted by Allen Nelson IV | Dec 19, 2019 | Theology |
In mid-December 2019, Founders Ministries released the CineDoc By What Standard? God’s...
Read MorePosted by Allen Nelson IV | Dec 16, 2019 | Theology |
Whether or not the liturgical calendar is even on your radar, we hope these devotions give you an...
Read MorePosted by Allen Nelson IV | Dec 13, 2019 | Theology |
Last time, we looked at God’s rebuke of Cain and the exposure of his sin (Genesis 4:6-7). In this...
Read MorePosted by Allen Nelson IV | Dec 9, 2019 | Theology |
Whether or not the liturgical calendar is even on your radar, we hope these devotions give you an...
Read MorePosted by Allen Nelson IV | Dec 6, 2019 | Theology |
In his work on the Mortification of Sin, that is, the killing of sin, John Owen (1616-1683)...
Read MorePosted by Allen Nelson IV | Dec 4, 2019 | Theology |
I am wholeheartedly committed to the priority of the preaching of God’s Word in our regular...
Read MorePosted by Allen Nelson IV | Dec 2, 2019 | Theology |
Whether or not the liturgical calendar is even on your radar, we hope these devotions give you an...
Read MorePosted by Allen Nelson IV | Nov 25, 2019 | Theology |
Whether or not the liturgical calendar is even on your radar, we hope these devotions give you an...
Read MorePosted by Allen Nelson IV | Nov 13, 2019 | Theology |
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” – Hosea 4:6 Knowledge is power, so they say. When...
Read MorePosted by Allen Nelson IV | Nov 10, 2019 | Theology |
In an effort to get our Things Above Us Shop up and running (ThingsAbove.Us/shop) we are offering...
Read MorePosted by Allen Nelson IV | Nov 8, 2019 | Theology |
I played Donkey Basketball one time. After that experience, I can say I have firsthand...
Read MorePosted by Allen Nelson IV | Nov 6, 2019 | Theology |
I can’t really document the dates so well, but I think most will generally agree that at the...
Read MorePosted by Allen Nelson IV | Oct 28, 2019 | Theology |
A typical atheist mantra seems to be something along the lines, “God doesn’t exist and...
Read MorePosted by Allen Nelson IV | Oct 25, 2019 | Theology |
Sale Info. Beginning today my second book, Before the Throne: Reflections on God’s Holiness...
Read MorePosted by Allen Nelson IV | Oct 22, 2019 | Theology |
A familiar ding of the phone went off. (That’s right, I still walk around with my cellular...
Read MorePosted by Allen Nelson IV | Oct 14, 2019 | Theology |
Last time, we saw that Satan tempts us in doubting God’s Word and downplaying the...
Read MorePosted by Allen Nelson IV | Oct 7, 2019 | Theology |
Satan takes God’s Word and he twists it and he downplays the consequences for disobeying it, and he downplays the consequences for sin. The famous RG Lee quote is pertinent here: “Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you more than you want to pay.”
Read MorePosted by Allen Nelson IV | Sep 30, 2019 | Theology |
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 MorePosted by Allen Nelson IV | Sep 23, 2019 | Theology |
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 MorePosted by Allen Nelson IV | Sep 18, 2019 | Theology |
A Parable Once upon a time, there was a mother with 7 sons. She loved her boys very much and they...
Read MorePosted by Allen Nelson IV | Sep 16, 2019 | Theology |
*The following is an adapted excerpt from Before the Throne: Reflections on God’s Holiness by...
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