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Sanctified — by grace alone through faith alone — One Day at a Time
Posted on July 21, 2009 | No CommentsRod Rosenbladt is professor of theology and apologetics at Concordia University (Irvine, California) and co-host of The White Horse Inn radio broadcast. The following is an excerpt of his article in Modern Reformation: Issue: “God Justifies the Wicked” Nov./Dec. Vol. 1 No. 6 1992 Pages 8-12,... -
Will the Real Church-growth Expert Please Stand Up!
Posted on May 21, 2008 | 4 CommentsMuch of the Church is in competition with the world for popularity these days. The world is very good at capturing people’s attention and affections because it targets and appeals to the pleasures of humanity. The church, on the other hand, tends to be very... -
Revival Hymn
Posted on March 29, 2008 | 2 CommentsRevival Hymn Guard that which has been entrusted to us. -
El Segundo
Posted on February 27, 2008 | 2 Commentsby Jason A couple of weeks ago I had a memorable day in a lovely town call El Segundo. Unfortunately, I was speaking at the sad occasion of the memorial service of Derryl Cousin‘s mother. Derryl is a MLB umpire; btw, he was behind the... -
Missional vs Seeker
Posted on November 12, 2007 | No CommentsGuard that which has been entrusted to us. -
Summary Argument against SOLO Scriptura
Posted on October 25, 2007 | 1 Comment(Introduction) AUTONOMY Ultimately, the fundamental problem with solo scriptura is the same problem that exists within the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox concepts of Scripture and tradition. All of these concepts result in autonomy. All result in final authority being placed somewhere other than God... -
Theological and Practical Critiques of SOLO Scriptura
Posted on October 24, 2007 | 7 Commentsby Keith Mathison (Click here for part 1, part 2, part 3) THEOLOGICAL PROBLEMS Solo scriptura is beset with numerous theological problems, the most significant being the problem of the canon. The canon is the list of books which are inspired by God. According to... -
Hermeneutical & Historical Critiques of SOLO Scriptura
Posted on October 24, 2007 | 2 Commentsby Keith Mathison (Click here for the first post and the Scriptural Critique)HERMENEUTICAL PROBLEMS An extremely significant problem with solo scriptura is the subjectivity into which it casts all hermeneutical endeavors. Ultimately the interpretation of Scripture becomes individualistic with no possibility for the resolution of... -
Scriptural Critique of Solo Scriptura
Posted on October 24, 2007 | 7 Commentsby Keith Mathison (please note that this is a critique of solo scriptura not sola scriptura) The modern Evangelical doctrine of Scripture, or solo scriptura, is untenable for a number of reasons.21 Aside from the fact that it is a novel position based upon rationalistic... -
The Fatal Flaw of Solo Scriptura
Posted on October 23, 2007 | 21 Commentsby Keith A. Mathison In the 1980s and early 1990s, a controversy erupted among dispensationalists which came to be referred to as the Lordship Salvation controversy. On one side of the debate were men such as Zane Hodges1 and Charles Ryrie2 who taught a reductionistic... -
Sola Scriptura
Posted on October 22, 2007 | 1 Commentby Jason Robertson In John 5:39-40, Jesus said to the Jews, “You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life.” A... -
Should We Be an Evangelistic or Missional Church?
Posted on October 10, 2007 | 3 Commentsby Jason RobertsonTim Keller asserts that churches need to structure their church to inhabit its culture. For instance, a church in a metropolitan city needs to be prepared to communicate the gospel effectively in every ministry of the church to a generation that does not... -
Bewitched!
Posted on May 21, 2007 | 11 CommentsHow can I be accepted by God? I must trust in Jesus for that acceptability. I can only be saved by what Jesus did in His life and death.The guarantee that God will accept me if I trust in Jesus is found in the fact... -
Me Religion
Posted on April 4, 2007 | 7 CommentsMe Church Me Worship Guard that which has been entrusted to us. -
The Very Pernicious and Detestable Doctrine of Inclusivism
Posted on February 18, 2007 | No Comments…men, not professing the Christian religion, [cannot] be saved in any other way whatsoever, be they never so diligent to frame their lives according to the light of nature, and the laws of that religion they do profess. And, to assert and maintain that they... -
Don’t Make Me Open This
Posted on October 18, 2006 | 8 CommentsI haven’t had time to blog a lot lately. Between my pulpit ministry burdens, teaching responsibilities, eldership duties, counseling, meetings, and parenting, I just haven’t had the time to put into writing my current thoughts. But my heart has been full of thoughts. Humility, for... -
Seeker Community Church
Posted on August 25, 2006 | 9 CommentsSpoof Alert!!! Come join us at Seeker Community Church! Guard that which has been entrusted to us. -
Jesus and Sovereign Election
Posted on June 6, 2006 | 13 CommentsThe Gospel of John is a unique Gospel because the Apostle does not tell the story of Jesus in the same format as the other three Gospel writers. Rather than chronologically recording the life and ministry of Jesus, John gives his readers a list of... -
Justification by Phil
Posted on May 24, 2006 | 1 CommentI love when Phil Johnson takes a theological theme and runs with it. Today he started a series of posts on “Justification by Faith.” Phil usually gets about 2 trillion comments when he posts on such subjects, so I have decided to record my comments... -
Didache
Posted on May 22, 2006 | 9 CommentsWhat if we could find a book from the first or second century that described baptism, the Lord’s Supper, discipleship, church leadership, and eschatology? Well, we do have such a book. The Didache (pronounced “didakhay” and means “teaching” which is short for the “Teaching of... -
I Was Floored
Posted on May 3, 2006 | 4 CommentsMany of you readers who have been with us from the beginning now of my admiration for that great philosopher Hank Hill. I was recently directed to an episode of King of the Hill that I had not seen, which I actually didn’t know was... -
Are Emergents Seeker Sensitive?
Posted on March 9, 2006 | 3 CommentsBy the way, I think its a mistake to see the emerging subculture as nothing more than the next generation’s version of the “seeker sensitive” church. It is that, but only in a certain sense. In some ways, the “emerging church” is a reaction against...