The people of Britain were given a vote, About that, there is no doubt; The people voted they wanted to leave, For Europe’s rulers just rob and thieve. Brexit! Was the people’s choice, They said with a solid resounding voice; But people’s votes don’t count for a toss, The House of Commons, them’s the boss. …
Keep Swinging the Bat!
Let me assume that you have been sent. You are an ambassador, you have the King's authority to deliver his message. You have the Divine promise that Christ will speak through you. If he doesn't speak through the preaching all that is heard is the sound of a man's voice and is of no avail. …
The Antithesis!
The word antithesis is not to be found in God's word, the holy scriptures. But the principle is there, writ large. It goes all the way back to the beginning when sin entered into God's created order through man. "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed" …
When Two World’s Collide!
Now, says Jesus, is the judgment of this world. Which one? There are two. There is the world that is God’s and the world that is man’s. The two of them from the beginning have been on a collision course. There is enmity there, God put it there (Genesis 3:15). There is the world that …
The Legacy of Modernism!
"The legacy of modernism has signalled to the modern culture the loss of consensus and the absence of timeless transcendence, qualities the church alone is able to cultivate and retain. In the wake of this, all that seems to be left is ever-growing secularity and public cynicism toward a religion ever in adjustment, never at …
On the Word Inerrancy!
Inerrancy: Meaning and Usage. Arthur Carl Piepkorn produced a terribly useful study of the history of this term back in 1965 ("What Does the Word Inerrancy Mean"? Sept 1965). He pointed out that the word was nowhere to be found in the Confessional literature of the dogmatic tradition of the Lutheran Church. A survey of …
Spurgeon: Where Shall We Find Infallibility?
This is from the last sermon that Charles Spurgeon preached to pastors. For a while Spurgeon had drifted into using the English Revised Version. But then he came to a realization, and he preached this sermon. “Believe in the inspiration of Scripture, and believe it in the most intense sense …. If this book be not …
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