A Sober Exortation to Preachers and Future Preachers…

This is taken from a message I gave a few years ago to a few future Pastors and Church leaders. I have condensed it for this blog…
I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom: Preach the word! Be [...]

Cultural Engagement?

I need some help, someone needs to give me a definition for what contemporary evangelicals call “cultural engagement”.
When evangelicals talk of cultural engagement, sometimes I wonder where the “engagement” part is…
Sometimes evangelicals make a dichotomy between some kind of “soft or loving engagement”, “intellectual engagement”, and “confrontational engagement.” They often do the same with evangelism, [...]

God uses the “Political” to Convert People…

I have been having a conversation with my friend Steve regarding my last few posts and a post that he has on his blog titled “The Kingdom of Christ is at Hand” - for a little context on this converstion his post is found here
I would like to get feedback from others on the issues [...]

Evangelism vs Politics?

If some of you don’t know it, I am involved with the American Heritage Party. The Heritage Party is an explicitly and unapologetically Christian Political party. I believe that as a Christian living in a “democracy” governed by “we the people” I have a certain responsibilities before God and my neighbor, a responsibility to bring [...]

Is the Law of God Only Binding on People in the Covenant?

I was having a conversation with a friend the other day and we were talking about Christians in government. The question arose - is right for Christian Magistrates to govern unbelievers by the Law of God?
His concern was if is legitimate to bind the non-covenant people to “covenantal laws”, he asked, isn’t the Law of [...]

Dallas Willard, Greg Bahnsen, Law and Theology

Christopher Neiswonger has an interesting post at Christian Theology blog (BTW for you TIU folks he is a TIU Law school guy) here is a quote:
Bringing together theology, and law, as you well know, is not at all easy, and antinomianism is overwhelmingly dominant in Christian culture. Part of the problem is that Christians [...]

Thoughts on “Theonomy” and “The Unity of Theonomy and Natural Law”

Lately I have been doing a lot of reading on Natural Law and Theonomy, I would like to share some thoughts.
In this post I will not be engaging with individual “opponents” of Theonomy but with the basic problem I have with accepting any other position. There is an admitted “theological grid” by which I view [...]

Living in Light of Judgment Day…

Often I ponder the things I will have to give an account for on judgment day, not only my sin, but my responsibilities as well…
As I get older, my thoughts turn to higher things; What have I done with the life God has given to me so far, and what will I do with the [...]

A Few Thoughts on II Timothy

Tuesday night I lead our small group through a study of Paul’s second letter to Timothy. We covered all four chapters in one evening, here were some thoughts…
The themes thorough-out the letter are suffering, persevering through that suffering, false teachers and apostasy, and a concern with teaching that leads to “vain words” and not to [...]

David Graves on Sharper than any two edged sword (Hebrews 4:12)

David Graves has some excellent comments on Hebrews 4:12
Take a look…
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Dave,
This verse (4:12) has been so often quoted out of its context, I have been hearing it used that way ever since I was a baby Christian.
Often when reading through this passage I have felt 4:12 was kinda out of place.
Your exegesis on this has [...]