Resurrection Sunday Devotional Main Text: Luke 24:1-7 There have been many wonderful moments in human history. Just within the past 200 years, we have seen: the invention of telephones, televisions, and computers; the development of x-rays, CT scans, and world-changing medications; transportation methods via aircrafts, automobiles, and subways. It is remarkable to consider how one event, […]
Saturday Devotional Main Text: Matthew 26:62-66 Think about the last time you made a mistake, and tried to keep it from being revealed. Perhaps you told a lie that got out of hand, or manipulated a situation to make yourself look better than others. In the final analysis, it has always been characteristic of sinners […]
Good Friday Devotional Main Text: Matthew 27:45-56 It would be an understatement to say that there are many problems facing mankind. Such are the consequences of living in a sin-cursed world (Genesis 3:17-19; Romans 8:19-22). Yet in God’s perfect timing, He has begun the process of making all things new through the work of Jesus […]
Thursday Devotional Main Text: Matthew 26:17-19 Human beings are visual creatures. Throughout the course of history, man has often used concrete resources to teach important subjects with greater effectiveness. Paintings, charts, diagrams, instruction manuals, and word pictures are a small sampling of how we continue to depend on visualization in our daily lives. Based on […]
Wednesday Devotional Main Text: Matthew 26:1-5 Think about the past week, month, and year. How often did the plans that you make come to pass exactly as you desired? If we are honest with ourselves, we rarely see plans unfold to the exact degree we had predicted in our minds. Sometimes this is simply due […]
Tuesday Devotional Main Text: Matthew 21:23-23:39 Everybody has an ultimate authority for what they believe and how they live. If pressed hard enough, people will eventually appeal to a supreme standard that governs their intellectual convictions and daily actions. When it comes to identifying the origins of one’s ultimate authority, there are really only two […]
Monday Devotional Main Text: Matthew 21:12-22 It has been well said that death focuses the mind. As one thinks about death, the human tendency is to be drawn to what is supremely cherished. Indeed, the prospect of death tends to reveal a person’s most foundational character traits. At the practical level, a historical survey of […]
Monday Devotional Main Text: Matthew 21:12-22 It has been well said that death focuses the mind. As one thinks about death, the human tendency is to be drawn to what is supremely cherished. Indeed, the prospect of death tends to reveal a person’s most foundational character traits. At the practical level, a historical survey of […]
Palm Sunday Devotional Main Text: Matthew 21:1-11 Think about a time you had to wait for an exciting event to occur. Did the weeks or months seem to endlessly drag on? Was there a special date circled on the calendar, or a countdown reminder on your phone? At some point in our lives, we have […]
Palm Sunday Devotional Main Text: Matthew 21:1-11 Think about a time you had to wait for an exciting event to occur. Did the weeks or months seem to endlessly drag on? Was there a special date circled on the calendar, or a countdown reminder on your phone? At some point in our lives, we have […]
Palm Sunday Devotional Main Text: Matthew 21:1-11 Think about a time you had to wait for an exciting event to occur. Did the weeks or months seem to endlessly drag on? Was there a special date circled on the calendar, or a countdown reminder on your phone? At some point in our lives, we have […]
Note: Part 1 and Part 2 of this series. Passage of Focus: Galatians 4:4-5 (cf. Psalm 22:22-24) It has been well said that one of the central themes in Scripture could be summarized as follows: “God is redeeming a people by His Son, for His Son, to His own glory.”[1] When contemplating the totality of […]
*Note: Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4 of this series can be accessed here (insert links to articles). During the first half of the twentieth century, few Christian figures were more active in contending for the faith than J. Gresham Machen (Jude 1:3).[1] When confronted with the face of theological liberalism in the Presbyterian Church […]
Not: Part 1 of this series. Passage of Focus: Luke 1:26-38 (cf. Isaiah 9:6-7) Cur Deus Homo. Translation: “Why God Became Man.” Such a phrase encapsulates one of the greatest mysteries that has ever been pondered by mankind, and it serves as the title for one of the most significant theological works to ever be […]
Note: Parts 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of this series. Barring anything unforeseen, the United States of America was forever changed on June 26, 2015. In the wake of Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court formally legislated every state to license marriages between same-sex couples, and to recognize all marriages that were lawfully performed out of state.[1] […]
Passage of Focus: Matthew 1:18-25 (cf. Isaiah 7:14) Are you content with being regarded as a fool for Jesus Christ? This question gets to the heart of what it means to be a Bible-believing Christian while dwelling in the midst of an unbelieving world. From the earliest days of the church age, followers of Jesus […]
*Note: Part 1 of this series can be accessed here. Christians have a history of being misunderstood in the public square. Within just three decades after the resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ, a paradigm would be concretized for how the majority of believers in the West would experience life over the next two millennia. […]
Religion is an indispensable component of the public square.[1] Since the public square is encapsulated by the ideas of human beings, and since religion is an idea at the forefront of man’s mind,[2] any suggestion to the contrary would necessarily entail the public square ceasing to be the public square. Stated differently, you can’t have […]
“Living out a distinctively Christian ethic is not contingent upon the government implementing Old Covenant civil law, nor does the furthering of God’s kingdom entail infringing on the religious liberty of unbelievers.”
Just over two years ago, I began the Dismantling Dispensationalism series with the intent of highlighting problematic distinctives of Dispensationalism. In the opening article, I forecasted the series to be divided into the following nine installments- Part 1- “Dismantling Dispensationalism: My Journey Out of Dispensationalism” Part 2- “Dismantling Dispensationalism: Examining the Historical Origins of Dispensationalism” Part 3- […]
This series is titled: Praise God for Christianity: No Intellectual Progress Without It! Part 1 can be found here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, and Part 4 here. If there ever was a time in human history to believe in the existence of an unchanging and absolute standard of human morality (“moral absolutes”), the twenty first century is […]
This series is titled: Praise God for Christianity: No Intellectual Progress Without It!Part 1 can be found here, Part 2 here, and Part 3 here. There may not be a presupposition more fundamental to human existence than the basic reliability of sense perception. Although inherently phenomenological in nature, sense perception is one of the primary mediums through […]
This series is titled: Praise God for Christianity: No Intellectual Progress Without It! Part 1 can be found here and Part 2 here. What is the most compelling evidence that could be presented for validating the Christian worldview? Throughout church history, apologists have done their best to earnestly and persuasively contend for the faith which was once […]
This series is titled: Praise God for Christianity: No Intellectual Progress Without It! Part 1 can be found here. Intelligible experience in reality presupposes, and is contingent upon, the existence of laws of logic. While it is likely that the overwhelming majority of people have spent little to no time studying the intricacies of the laws […]
This series is titled: Praise God for Christianity: No Intellectual Progress Without It! Did Christianity slow Western intellectual progress by replacing rational thought with mystery and authority? In post-Enlightenment generations, this question has received ample attention in academic and popular level contexts. As encapsulated in his seminal work, The Closing of the Western Mind: The […]
***This article serves as a foundational, macro-level overview of the history of First Baptist Church-Edna. In order to eventually accumulate a more exhaustive record of FBC-Edna, it is the prayer of the author to devote more analysis into the history of this local church in the future. As such, the content of this article is […]
This article will examine the Davidic Covenant, as understood within Dispensational and Particular Baptist theological frameworks. In keeping with the pattern of this section of the Dismantling Dispensationalism series, each of the three main classifications of Dispensationalism will be categorized with the primary source that corresponds thereto. Moreover, relevant citations from a Particular Baptist (1689 […]
This article will canvass the Mosaic Covenant, as understood within Dispensational and Particular Baptist theological frameworks. In keeping with the pattern of this section of the Dismantling Dispensationalism series, each of the three main classifications of Dispensationalism will be categorized with the primary source that corresponds thereto. Moreover, germane citations from a Particular Baptist (1689 […]
*Note: This is the third installment in a three-part series. You can access part one (link to article) and part two (link to article) on the Covenant Confessions blog. Premises 3 and 4: Moreover, God has transcribed His moral law upon the hearts of every human being, leaving man without excuse to abide by the […]
*Note: This is the second installment in a three-part series. You can access the previous article here. Premises 1 and 2: As a natural law, the Sabbath pattern[1] is universally binding throughout every generation of human history. From the outset of creation, God sanctified one day to be reserved for resting from weekly labor and […]
