Contend Earnestly

Last night I taught on water baptism and then I opened it up for questions. We had many good questions about baptism but the one that struck...

Well this is the last of the steps. I am sure there are many more steps one could take, but these are the ones that I could think of as I ha...

If Hyper-Calvinism and Arminianism are as described here, then what is Calvinism? In my personal beliefs of correct, historic Calvinism, it...

Hyper-Calvinism is all house and no door; Arminianism is all door and no house. John Duncan

My first post focused on a couple of the phrases that I abuse most often, and now I turn the table on a couple phrases that I hear all the t...

I am not sure what most of you log into when you get on your computer, but I figured I would give you some different ways to get in touch if...

I need some thoughts on something that I have been thinking about for a while. I work in a suit and tie everyday, I hate it, but what can yo...

In my years I have been a huge fan of everything urban, the scene, the people, the music, etc. The problem is that the music was so obscene ...

I know that we will always say, "why can't we be like those people" etc. and it always seems like we live in the very worst ti...

This book was definitely one of the more political ones of Schaeffer's. This came towards the end of his life when he was very upset, un...

I took some time yesterday to read Driscoll's online book, Porn Again Christian. This is a small booklet speaking about an issue that mo...

Thanks to Pastor Dave for making me spend another $10 on an album, but this song is sick. Enjoy. For all you reformed white dudes...sick me...

I don't know about you but I use some phrases without really thinking about what I am saying. Some of them are shared with society and C...

I was parusing the local "Christian" book store, I put that in quotes because when you have TD Jakes on the shelf one has to wonde...

I am reading "On the Incarnation" by Athanasius for personal study and found an interesting section this morning on the death of C...

I have been stealing a lot lately. Here is another theft I stole from Piper, enjoy my crime: Reading Martyn Lloyd-Jones’ classic Spiritual ...

For my younger readers the above picture is what we used to call a "tape." Long gone are the remix tapes and such, and now we have...

I jacked this from Driscoll, but liked it so I figured I would repost it here. Have a Merry Christmas. The larger-than-life myths surroundin...

This is a re-post from last Christmas that I thought I would put out there once more because I believe it gives us some good questions to as...

Tell some Christians "Merry X-Mas" or "Happy Holidays" and they will react as bad as they would if you preach with jeans...