September 27, 2018 by Ken Yates in Blog - basics, four soils, Grace, Mark 4:1-20, Works
Do You Have the Basics Down_

At the end of the Parable of the Four Soils in Mark 4, the disciples asked the Lord to explain the parable to them. He does so, but before explaining […]

September 26, 2018 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Eternity, ruling, vocation, work
Working in Eternity

I’m interested in just about everything. There are several languages I want to learn really well—Modern Greek, Koine, Hebrew, Afrikaans, German, Swedish, and Spanish for starters. There are many instruments […]

Were the Gospel writers following a loose style of reporting history_

Today I read the June 2018 issue of JETS, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society. ETS was started in 1949 to promote the truth that the Bible has no errors […]

September 24, 2018 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - charity, James, murder, poverty
What about the poor_

Did you know that James accused his readers of murder? Yes—murder! “You lust and do not have; so you commit murder” (James 4:2, emphasis added). Was he being literal or […]

Faith the Sole Condition_

Thomas C. Oden was a leading Wesley scholar and Methodist theologian. If all you read are Calvinist authors, I think you would appreciate Oden. Many of us in the Free […]

Many Ultra Dispensationalists

I was taught Dispensationalism at Dallas Theological Seminary (1978-85). That is the view that there is a distinction between Israel and the Church, that the Church began in Acts 2, […]

When in doubt, cling to the gospel

Carl F. Wisløff (1908-2004) was a Norwegian Lutheran theologian and preacher. I recently acquired a copy of his short systematic theology, I Know in Whom I Believe: Studies in Bible […]

The finished work of Christ is not the promise of life.

One of the dangers of writing articles and books for over thirty years is that people notice if you contradict yourself. I plead guilty. I have not always been as […]

Justification is a point-in-time event

Rev. Amos Binney was a Methodist preacher who wrote a short systematic theology called Binney’s Theological Compend (published in 1840) explaining “Biblical Methodism” (see here). The “improved” version edited by […]

September 14, 2018 by Shawn Lazar in Blog
Three Ways to Evaluate an Argument

Gordon H. Clark once said, “Unless one knows the definition, he does not know what he is talking about” (see here). I recently wrote a blog where I said that […]

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