
Dissecting Our "Personal" Relationship With God - Part Three: The Lord's Supper
Rivers of blood has been shed at the hands of Protestant and Catholic Christians alike over the doctrinal intricacies related to Holy...
Dissecting Our "Personal" Relationship With God - Part Two: The Sinner's Prayer/The Personal Savior
As stated in my last post on water baptism, the sinner's prayer eventually replaced the biblical role of the baptism. Though, it is...
Dissecting Our "Personal" Relationship With God - Part One: Water Baptism
This is part one of a three-part essay dissecting our "personal" relationship with the Father. Like in many of my previous entries, I'm...
Indulgence Redefined
In Germany in 1517, a man by the name of John Tetzel sold indulgences for Pope Leo X. Although reformers had many complaints about the...
"When you have returned to Me..."
"And the Lord said, 'Simon, Simon! Indeed, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, that your...
Tithing: Biblical...But Not Christian
Tithing does appear in the Bible. So, yes, tithing is biblical. But it is not Christian. The tithe belonged to ancient Israel. It was...
Pastoral Monuments
The Pastor. He is the fundamental figure of the Protestant faith. So prevailing is the pastor in the minds of most Christians that he...
Who's Temple Is It Really?
Many contemporary Christians have a love affair with brick and mortar. The edifice complex is so ingrained in our thinking that if a...
Who's Flying the Plane?
"There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you're on the wrong wall." - Joseph Campbell,...
The Error of the Pharisees and the Sadducees
When Jesus walked the Earth, His chief opposition came from the two leading religious parties of the day; the Pharisees and the...
Truth Without Love is Brutal, but Love Without Truth is Hypocrisy
There are so many false ideas about what love is today. There is perhaps no word in the English language that has been more twisted,...
Tragedy of the American Church: The Counterfeit Bride
The term "counterfeit" describes something made as an exact imitation of something valuable or important with the intention to deceive or...
Why We Will Never See Another Revival
For most of the last two hundred years Americans have been praying for revival or at least for our definition of it. First, you must...
Fractured Foundations
In Psalm 11:3, David asks the question, "If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?" David draws on an analogy in the...
The Awakening of Repentance?
On February 21st, 2018, America woke up, no longer on the threshold of a great opportunity but instead, staring it straight in the face. ...
A Brief History Lesson
Picture it...Wittenberg, Germany...1516...the Catholic Church is at the height of its glory in Europe. They have never been so rich and...
















