I am so excited to be working with Free Grace Press again to publish my third book (2nd with FGP), entitled A Change of Heart: Understanding Regeneration and Why it Matters. We still have some work to do but, Lord willing, we are looking at Summer 2023 (perhaps...
On November 28, 1628 John Bunyan was born. I am grateful for Bunyan's commitment to the Word of God. For his writing of the Pilgrim's Progress. For the example he has left behind for us to follow. But before all of that, he had to be born again. How did this happen in...
The Word Christmas is not in the Bible. Never once does Paul, or Peter, or James, or any of New Testament tell us that we must celebrate the birth of Christ. In fact, sometimes we must lament some of what Christmas has come to mean to many people. To many, it is a...
In my 3.5+ decades of life on earth, I have lived through a few “national crises”. Some things I would not label so much as a “national” crisis but more of a conservative crisis. That is, for example, things like what we are dealing with right now with the so-called...
In Ephesians 4:20, Paul says the Christians at Ephesus had "learned" Christ. By that, Paul means, the Messiah. What Christians have learned is that Jesus is the true God of the universe. He is the 2nd person of the Trinity who is the fulfillment of all the OT...
In the 2006 preface to his biography on John Calvin, Steve Lawson wrote, "As the pulpit goes, so goes the church...In this hour, pastors must see their pulpits again marked by sequential exposition, doctrinal clarity, and a sense of gravity regarding eternal matters....
In Ephesians 4:14, Paul desires that local churches “…may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.” In this post, I want to give you 5 examples of deceitful...
In 2 Corinthians 5:17 Paul writes, "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come." The Greek word for "old" in our text is ἀρχαῖα. It’s where we get the English word “archaic.” I’m not trying to read that...
Exodus 12:33 shows us that the Egyptians saw God's people as a threat to them. The text states, "The Egyptians were urgent with the people to send them out of the land in haste. For they said, 'We shall all be dead.'” This is, of course, right after the tenth and...
I recently finished reading Christian Theistic Evidences by Cornelius Van Til (edited by K. Scott Oliphint). It was a great book, but this post is not a review. Rather, I came away with a thought from the book, that I've known for some time, but thought I'd put into...
This is the fifth and final post in a series of posts on why you should be a baptist. In the last few posts, we've been looking at what Baptism signifies. We conclude with today's post. Baptism signifies, Resurrection, Regeneration, Renewal, Relocation, Resolve,...
In the previous two posts, we have walked through 5 points on the significance of Baptism. I am trying to convince you to be a credobaptist. And if you already are a credobaptist, I hope that these posts help you to glory in the gospel all the more. We will finish 2...
In the previous post, we began to walk through 8 wonderful realities that our Baptism points to. We finished 3 last time and we will finish another 2 today. Before we get into the list let me say how much my walk with the Lord has been improved by listening to and...
The last post was really an introduction to this discussion. In this post, we begin to get into more of the meat of the matter. And what I want to do is lay out for you 8 truths about the symbolic nature of Baptism. In doing this, I hope to persuade you to be a...
Benjamin Keach, a 17th Century Baptist, was once put in a pillory to face physical pain and public scorn because of his views on credobaptism (also called "believer's baptism"). Sadly, today, I’m afraid too many Baptists cannot defend the doctrine of credobaptism very...