email ♦ subscribe ♦ musings ♦ articles 12/30 Neither Mar the Corners Godly appearances 12/26 The Vanity Wasting life 12/25 Give None Offence On Christian holidays 12/17 Thy Name In Vain False association 12/16 No Man That Warreth The soldier mindset 12/09 Anathema Maranatha Cursed at Christ’s coming 11/26 Thou Shalt Not Kill Kill vs Murder 11/25 … Continue reading Musings from 2023
Until quite recently, I’ve held what many might consider to be an extreme view of Total Depravity; I believed everyone (including me) will always make the most evil choice God allows them to make every time they make a choice, and that the only reason we do not act like Satan at every instant is … Continue reading In Himself Alone
email ♦ subscribe ♦ musings ♦ articles 12/25 Another Jesus The litmus test 12/24 In My Name Prayer power 12/24 Put on Christ Pretending unto perfection 12/24 Give Him Life Praying for sinners 12/21 Into His Rest Believing on Christ 12/18 Make Thee Fringes A gateway command 12/17 His Name in Vain Taking it lightly 12/11 Nailing It What Christ took away 12/09 Eat the Tithe … Continue reading Musings From 2017
articles ♦ discussion ♦ blog Introductory Are you humble? Wow! Few questions unsettle the God-fearing soul like this one. If we claim to be humble it sounds like a boast, suggesting at once we are not humble. But if we confess we are not humble, knowing that we should be, we are compelled to explain or justify ourselves, … Continue reading Judge Not
Election is the teaching that God chooses (elects) who will be justified (saved) by and through grace (divine enablement) , independently of human works or merit (unconditionally). This is predestination, a pre-choosing of our destiny before the world began based on God’s own will How this relates to free will is certainly a mystery; we cannot … Continue reading The Election of Grace
People are bad, really bad, intensely evil , desperately wicked; God says, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” (Je 17:9) Total Depravity, a basic Christian doctrine, is simply stated: Every choice we make is tainted with sin. In our natural state we consistently seek our own way ; we … Continue reading Desperately Wicked
articles ♦ discussion ♦ blog Abstract In the ageless quest to understand the nature of both God and Man we struggle to comprehend how God can be in absolute control of all things even though we feel like we are acting freely, apart from divine control. We wonder how God could be completely sovereign and yet hold Man … Continue reading Free Will
Predestination and election are difficult to understand until we diligently consider the context — the dreadfully sinful human condition: Man’s Depravity. Apart from carefully integrating this concept throughout our theology, many fundamental precepts of Scripture appear hopelessly irreconcilable. For example, how can God choose who will be saved while respecting Man’s Free Will? Similarly, How … Continue reading Vessels of Mercy
articles ♦ blog Please turn in a Bible to Job 1:8 where it is written, “And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?“ We do well to consider God’s servant … Continue reading My Servant Job
articles ♦ blog ♦ summary The Scriptures I find relating specifically to marriage, divorce, and remarriage, in order as they occur in the Bible, are as follows: Genesis 2:18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. There has always been, … Continue reading Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage