Church
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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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𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐿𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑚 Turns 100
“A century has not relaxed the battle-lines of a robust, orthodox, confrontational biblical Faith on the one hand and all accommodationist revisions on the other, whether in church or culture.” Read it 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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Utopia Unbound
Every human attempt to create heaven on earth ends by creating hell. The coming of the heavenly kingdom to earth is an answer to fervent prayer, not the reward for a utopian program. Read it here. Continue reading
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Prayer’s Erroneous Theological Debris
In learning (or relearning) how to pray, it’s essential to clear away the erroneous theological debris we often carry with us as it relates to prayer. Read the article here. Continue reading
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Closing the Book(s) on 2022
The delights of fear, the ills of illiberals, and the buttress of creation Read the article here. Continue reading
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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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The Character of Christ’s Kingdom
He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. A bruised reed he shall not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. (Is. 42:2, 3) A principal theme of the Old Testament prophets relating to Messiah’s glorious kingdom Continue reading
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The Bible Is Complementarian, But Don’t Monkey Around With the Trinity
A majority of complementarian evangelical scholars sympathetic to the eternal economic subordination of the Son (EES) returned to the orthodox position in 2016. (EES = though each member of the Trinity is equal in being [one nature or “ousia”], the Son is eternally subordinate to the Father in function. There are still a few pushback Continue reading
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Confessional Postmillennialism
“Eschatology isn’t just about last things. It’s also about first things. What you believe about eschatology will affect how you live your life.” Read here. Continue reading
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Scriptural Repulsion of “Same-Sex Attraction”
Creating a church environment safe for the self-satisfied, unrepentant same-sex attracted ( = tempted) is really a gateway drug to the practice of homosexuality. Read the article here. 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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The Kingdom of God Is Not a Personal Salvation Cult
Stephen C. Perks’ latest iconoclastic essay bluntly dismisses Protestantism as a failure and offers a renaissance of the apostolic kingdom of God as the only viable replacement. Read the article 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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Thoughts on Self-Respecting Manhood and the Use of Public Language, by Eric Anderson
I Corinthians 16:13….”act like men”. There is something which has struck me over the past couple of years, as it relates to men in our culture. That is, the jettisoning of manly self-respect in what is said and what is not said public-ally. I think, by both common grace and saving grace (as a Christian Continue reading
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One Crusader’s Calling
If we don’t have Christian crusaders in the culture, Christian crusaders in family and church won’t matter much. Read the article here. Continue reading
P. Andrew Sandlin 