February 22, 2009 A Call To Apathy! I’ve often wondered if the Holy Spirit works in a large Church like Bellevue Baptist with a famous pastor like Adrian Rogers. I have occasionally thought that perhaps the Holy Spirit has abandoned the Church and left them to their own man-centered devices. However the Holy Spirit is […]

February 20, 2009 What I Don’t Have To Do To Be Regenerated! 1. Push ups 2. Jumping jacks 3. Knee bends 4. Cry 5. Scream 6. Repent 7. Jack Squat 8. Raise my hand 9. Walk forward 10. Believe 11. Listen 12. Hear 13. Pay money 14. Take out a loan 15. Accept Christ 16. […]

February 13, 2009 ‘ordo salutis’ Order Of Salvation Theologians describe the process by which God brings redemption subjectively to the sinner in ‘ordo salutis’. This is perhaps the least understood element of soteriology. This determines whether one is monergistic or synergistic, God alone works in saving saving sinners or there is a cooperation of the […]

Pastor-scholar Tony Richie says there is no Jewish-Christian-Muslim God. Nor is there a simple answer to the “Same God” question. When people realize I participate in interreligious dialogue and cooperative efforts they often ask me some version of the…

Do we adequately know the background of the Jewishness of the Gospel of Matthew? Dr. Schaser helps us understand the extra biblical literary sources that illuminate how Jesus is portrayed in the gospel; from festivals to the Sermon on the Moun…