Bible
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The Virtuous Liberty Society
Classical Liberalism versus Globalist Marxisms and Tribalist Nationalisms The free society our U. S. Founders secured by God’s blessing with their “lives, fortunes, and sacred honor” is under withering assault today on the Left and Right. Some critics believe the Founding basis (including its indisputably Protestant distinctive) has outlived its usefulness. Others argue the nation Continue reading
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A Postmillennial Primer: Basics of Optimistic Eschatology
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Christianity Is Public
If Jesus isn’t Lord everywhere, he’ll eventually not be Lord anywhere. Read the article here. Continue reading
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The Serpent’s Gnostic Hiss
“Gnosticism is an equal opportunity destroyer. Wherever this heresy goes in the church, it dilutes or destroys the Christian Faith. Wherever it goes in our society, it undermines Christian culture.” Read here. Continue reading
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Creedal Eschatology Is Biblical Eschatology
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The Pleroma of the Son
Introduction Sin unleashed nothingness into the world. The Edenic world was brim-filled and overflowing with the goodness, righteousness, and joy of God actuated by creation’s mediator, God’s only Son. The creation account speaks of “filling” the earth and its “abundance.” God-ness drenched everything (though, of course, not in a pantheistic sense). Sin introduced cosmic rebellion. Continue reading
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Easter Anthropology
“Ancient pagan views of man infested the church and have led to Christian withdrawal from God’s good world. Easter radically overturns this error.” Read the rest here. Continue reading
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Recovering Regal Soteriology: Christ’s Kingship in Salvation and All of Life
Deeply entrenched ideas die hard, and this includes bad ideas, even (perhaps especially) bad ideas in Christian history. Examples abound, but one of the most prominent is the gradual shift from the cosmic soteriology (Jesus died and rose to redeem all creation) of the Bible to the individualized soteriology (Jesus died to save sinners) of Continue reading
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Ten Books Most Formative in My Thinking
Books, like people, shape and reshape our lives. Here are the ones that shaped and reshaped mine. Read it here. Continue reading
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False Antinomy: Jesus’ Kingdom Gospel Versus Paul’s Salvation Gospel
Jesus’ victorious Satan-crushing gospel = Paul’s cross-and-resurrection salvation gospel. Read the post here. Continue reading
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Recovering Regal Soteriology
To lure sinners with the delights of eternal life while obscuring the demands of Christ’s Lordship over them is a supreme evangelistic cruelty. Read the post here. Continue reading
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The Christmas God is the Real God
“There is no God standing behind or above Jesus Christ. To try to get behind the Bible to the “real” God is a form of idolatry, framing God in man’s image.” Read the rest here. Continue reading
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Some on Broken Pieces, by Salle J. Sandlin
Of the many hundreds of articles my late godly mother wrote, none has moved me as deeply as this one. If you feel your life is an irreversible series of hardships and disasters, this article is for you. “And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it Continue reading
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Answered Prayers Should Be Routine
The Bible does not hold up the saints of those eras as enjoying more successful prayer lives than ours. Listen here. Continue reading
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Apostasy, Perseverance, and Assurance
All of those justified in Jesus Christ are eternally secure, but all who abandon the Faith are without hope and destined to eternal judgment. Listen here. Continue reading
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New Book — Defend the Faith: Christian Warfare for Our Time
The Christian life is a battle, and battles presuppose enemies. The chief enemy of Christians is Satan (and demonic spirits aligned with him [Eph. 6:12]), but a leading strategy in thwarting God’s earthly kingdom is his enlisting humans to assist him. This diabolical strategy started in Eden. The Bible assumes that the true Faith will Continue reading
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James White, Postmillennialist
Dr. James White is a Reformed Baptist theologian and apologist and founder and director of Alpha Omega Ministries who, formerly premillennial and amillennial, recently shifted his eschatology to postmillennialism. I decided to explore that shift a little more deeply with him. PAS: James, what leading factors contributed to your move from amillennialism to postmillennialism? JW: Continue reading
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Make Christianity Great Again
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Gospel or Salvation?
Many Christians calls themselves “evangelical,” but actually they’re soterians. They’re not Gospel Christians, but soteriological Christians. These two aren’t the same. Read the article here. Continue reading
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Our Promissory God
Several decades ago a Canadian schoolteacher Everett Storms read the Bible through 27 times specifically counting God’s promises. The number he came up with is 7,487. We might dis‐ pute that number, but of this there must be no doubt: you can find thousands of God’s promises in the Bible. If you read nothing but Continue reading
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