Why baptize babies? Of course, we all know that there is one category for church members (saved) and one category for others (lost). Understand that this categorization is based on God’s membership roles, and we don’t have access to them…
Category: Culture
Issues and opinions about contemporary culture
Gulf Crisis & God's Judgment
Perhaps the Lord has decided to treat us according to Romans 1, as if He is saying, Okay. Since you are lusting for oil and money I will give you up “in the lusts of (your) hearts to impurity” (Romans…
Foreword to Colossians — Christos Singularis
The Apostle, Paul, wrote letters to seven churches in the Roman World. He discussed a wide range of issues, including theology, personal relations, family relations, being a church, living the Christian life and recognizing and avoiding heresy. He has made…
Revaluation of Debt
I could title this post “The Jubilee Factor” because it is a simple observation about the teaching of the biblical Jubilee and how it speaks to the current world financial crisis. So, what is the Jubilee? The Jubilee year (Leviticus…
Take It Back
When people get serious about taking America back from the Liberals, they will need to go back in history to see when and how our constitutional republic was lost. It will be discovered that Barack Obama is not responsible for…
Purity 1
1 Peter 1:22: Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart… Calvin complained that Erasmus mistranslated the first word of verse 22 in a past…
The Prophetic Imagination, A Review
The following review by Adam T. Ross is on Goodreads (with comments by Doug Jones): I had a lot of trouble with this book. I wanted to like it given how many people in so many corners have commended it…
Reforming The Cultus
This is a response to Doug Wilson’s post, The Spiritual Drive Train. I put it here rather than as a comment to his post because of the length of my response. He suggests that knowing what not to do is…
Chapter 6: Christ’s Umbrella
From Arsy Varsy — Reclaiming The Gospel in First Corinthians, by Phillip A. Ross, ©2008, 352 pages, Pilgrim Platform. Do you not know that you are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If…