Tag: church

Infant Baptism Reloaded

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…

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…

Are You Worthy?

“Do this in remembrance of me,” said Jesus. The purpose of the Lord’s Supper is to re-member, to reconnect with the body of Christ. This remembering is not simply a matter of memory, but a matter of membership. It is…

Think Again

Until very recently in history families were considered to be a single economic unit. This is still part of the U.S. Tax Code. The word “economic” comes from the Greek word “oikos,” which means household. It did not mean that…

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…

Separation of Church & State

The Associated Press has released news that “A group of ministers filed a complaint Monday with the Internal Revenue Service to stop a conservative organization from encouraging pastors to endorse or oppose political candidates…” (Ohio ministers challenge political pulpit plan,…

Why Men Hate Going To Church

I just finished reading “Why Men Hate Going to Church.” Murrow’s book was very hopeful, until I finished it. He has put his finger on a real problem — the feminization of Christianity. But the problem is even wider, it…