Inerrancy of the Bible

This is a portion of a lengthy article on a highly important subject, entitled “A Layman’s Historical Guide to the Inerrancy Debate”written by William Evans and can be read in its entirety at Reformation 21 website. Please click this link . What can be read below are: the reasons for the authority of the Bible and what innerancy does [...]

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Yawning at the Word

Mark Galli | posted at Christianity Today

It’s really hard to listen to God when there are really interesting things to think about.

When I preach, I often quote the Bible to drive home my point. I think it more persuasive to show that what I’m saying is not merely my opinion but a consistent theme of Scripture. [...]

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10 Scriptural Reasons Not to Be Involved with Rick Warren’s “Broad Way” Christianity

by Warren Smith (from A “Wonderful” Deception)
Rick Warren’s Purpose Driven movement has, in a relatively short period of time, become what TIME magazine has referred to as a “Purpose Driven empire.”1 The word empire is defined in the dictionary as “supreme rule; absolute power or authority; dominion.” It also means “an extensive social or [...]

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Book Review: Why We’re Not Emergent

 
Why We’re Not Emergent (By Two Guys Who Should Be)
 
By Kevin DeYoung & Ted Kluck
Reviewed by Jonathan Leeman

Foreword by David F. Wells
Moody Press, 2008, 256 pp, $14.99
“They just don’t get it.”
I predict that’s what the naysayers of Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck’s new book Why We’re Not Emergent will say.
“They don’t understand me” is one [...]

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How a Christian Can Read Any Old Testament Passage

Outline of G. K. Beale and Sidney Greidanus — See Below *
 
The Basic Presuppositions of the Redemptive Historical Christocentric Interpretation of the Old Testament
A.  The assumption of corporate solidarity or representation.
B.  That Christ is viewed as representing the true Israel of the Old Testament and true Israel, the church, in the New Testament (Isa. 49:3-6; [...]

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No New Revelation!

 
by John Calvin, from the Institutes of John Calvin and Calvin’s Commentary on Hebrews
“For in [Christ] ‘all treasures of knowledge and wisdom are hid’ (Colossians 2:3) with such great abundance and richness that either to hope for or to seek any new addition to these treasures is truly to arouse God’s wrath and provoke him [...]

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Who Am I … Really?

Foreword:  This is the 4th installment on the series  from Modern Reformation issue of 1996. For other articles uploaded earlier, go to the sidebar – Categories – and choose ‘The Life of a Justified Sinner’ to take you to all articles under this heading. 
The exposition below provides a good and clear exegesis of the [...]

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How Spurgeon Learned of Grace

Well can I remember the manner in which I learned the Doctrines of Grace in a single instant. Born as all of us are by nature, an ‘Arminian,’ I still believed the old things I had heard continually from the pulpit, and did not see the Grace of God. When I was coming to Christ, [...]

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The Well-Read Christian

THE WELL-READ CHRISTIAN: Why Bible Lovers Should Be Bibliophiles
by Rick Ritchie
 
His accusing questions to the Pharisees begin with the words “Have you not read…?”, suggesting that his hearers were readers who should have read with more diligence.
The well-read life was the aspiration of bygone saints. No, not the life that was read by everyone (That [...]

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Like A Berean

Foreword 
The article appended hereunder originally entitled ‘Assumptions, Traditions and a Biblical Filter’  by pastor John Samson was posted yesterday at Reformation Theology (RT) website (click here).  I realize that not everyone may be able to get the chance to read the article through my RT’s RSS feed at the right sidebar of my webpage, so I posted it here for [...]

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