Nate Collins’ Stunning Sermon at Revoice
Throughout the sermon, Nate clearly implied that those who oppose the "Gay Christian Prophets" are like the bad shepherds in Jeremiah who act unjustly towards them.
Nate Collins considers himself, and other “Gay Christians,” to be modern day prophets to the church to call us to repentance for our idolatry of the “nuclear family?” It’s somehow “idolatrous” for the church to embrace and uplift God’s created design of the nuclear family? Finally, we are to believe that the ones God has... Continue Reading
Accredited by Whom? And How? Some Thoughts about “Accreditation” in Relation to Christian Higher Education
An “accredited college” or “accredited university” is one that has that seal of approval from a nationally recognized accrediting society or association.
A great deal of time and energy is spent by the administration and faculty on trying to read the minds of the accreditors. What exactly do they want? What will cause them to cite the college or university with one or more demerits (which then have to be cleared up)? Based on my many years... Continue Reading
Great Guilt, Greater Grace!
Our Saviour gave Himself, and ascended to the heights to apply God's grace to us.
The primary consideration in the description of biblical guilt, is not that we feel subjectively guilty (whether the accusation is false, unproven or confirmed), but that, in the eyes of the LORD we are ACTUALLY, objectively and legally guilty before the Law. Absence or presence of feelings at this point are irrelevant. Sin, as an... Continue Reading
Our Cross
The pattern of Christian sanctification is connected to the experience of the cross – namely, our spiritual life is connected to suffering and weakness.
There are many who view sanctification as primarily a matter of human exertion. It is very natural for us to want to sanctify ourselves – to cultivate a sense of spiritual independence and self-sufficiency so that we can be in control of our spiritual lives. We are tempted to glorify the life of the victorious,... Continue Reading
Israel’s Golden Calf Idolatry
How Our Culture Perverts Our Understanding of Yahweh and His Ways
Did the Israelites really believe that something they built with their own hands turned the Nile to blood and destroyed all the firstborn of Egypt? Indeed, the Israelites seem less-than-intelligent to many modern readers. Were they that senseless, or are we as modern readers missing something when we read the story? “How could they... Continue Reading
John Calvin’s Aversion to Being Remembered
Calvin specified at the close of his life that he wanted to be buried in an unmarked grave, a wish that was followed.
As Calvin once wrote to a Christian landowner on the island of Jersey around the year 1553: “it is a sacrifice well pleasing to God … to dedicate our life to the glory of him who has ransomed us at so costly a price.” And eleven years later, Calvin, then on his deathbed, told his... Continue Reading
After the Revoice Conference, Will There Be A Repent Conference?
Just like with submission, divorce, and cohabitation, Christians need to shed their fear of crossing our pagan culture.
Just like with other issues relative to gender roles, submission, divorce, cohabitation and premarital sex, Christians need to shed their concerns over appealing to the sensibilities of a pagan culture. The Bible is explicitly clear on the morality of same-sex romantic and sexual relationships. Any confusion on that is the result of a futile attempt... Continue Reading
It Pleased God…to Create
The creation is predicated upon the divine pleasure, or will, to create, as mysterious as that is to us.
Creation is, again, not necessary for God. God’s creative love is not ‘a love which is needy and in want’ and so ‘loves in such a way that it is subjected to the things it loves’; God loves not ‘out of compulsion of his needs’ but ‘out of the abundance of his generosity’ [quoting Augustine].... Continue Reading
The Minister’s Vows And The Confession Of Faith
Hodge on the meaning of: “Do you sincerely receive and adopt the Confession of Faith of this Church, as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Holy Scriptures?
It is plain that a very serious responsibility before God and man is assumed by those who return an affirmative answer to that question. It is something more than ordinary falsehood, if our inward convictions do not correspond with a profession made in presence of the Church, and as the condition of our receiving authority... Continue Reading
Why Some Christians Embrace LGBT Theology
Jonathan Swift, author of “Gulliver’s Travels,” is often credited with saying that you can’t reason someone out of something they were never reasoned into.
HRC’s new guide is entitled “Coming Home to Evangelicalism and Self,” and purportedly offers ways to “help LGBTQ people live fully in their sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, and to live fully in their religious, spiritual and cultural traditions.” The guide says that LGBTQ Christians “find it difficult to be fully themselves in... Continue Reading