“You Don’t Have to Get Offensive.”

Paul seemed surprised at the sudden spotlight. “Well, that’s a very large and complex subject.....” “Surely it is, but did you inform these dear folks of that when you used that verse (2 Thess 2:15) to get them to begin to question the sufficiency of God’s holy Word?” There was a deathly silence. “I didn’t feel it necessary to go into such detail, no.” “Even when you knew admitting the confusion that exists in Rome about the topic ...

Why Do We Need to Evangelize Roman Catholics?

In the past week I've been thinking much about the Issue of Roman Catholicism. More specifically why do we need to evangelize Roman Catholics? I believe it is a pivotal question that we must ask especially in this age of the rapid spread of evangelicalism. Why indeed? What is it in Roman Catholicism that bids us to preach to it's people that they may be saved? Do they not have the Bible? They do. Do they ...

Logic and John 6:44

A debate between two theological positions has raged. Arminianism, which questioned the doctrines of the Dutch Reformed Church in the late 16th – early 17th centuries, insisted upon fallen man’s ability to choose God apart from the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit. The Dutch Reformed Church, which embraced the theology of Calvinism, responded by re-affirming that man is in such bondage to sin that apart from the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit ...

Assuming the Gospel.

Michael Horton, Assuming the Gospel To arrive at a condition of Christless Christianity where Christ becomes more of a trademark for t-shirts and entertainment empires more than the object of faith. No explicit heresy is needed, because our default setting is Pelagianism, the heresy of self-salvation. Unless we are constantly taught out of it, not just once, but throughout our Christian pilgrimage we will always

Defining and Defending the Gospel.

James White, Defining and Defending the Gospel We live in a day and age where society around us, each and every day, seeks to convince us that things like the truth of the Gospel are not knowable. The way our society thinks is that if you say "this is right", and that that means, "this is wrong", then you are hateful, you are unloving, you are arrogant, and so the very essence of the Christian faith ...