The Dividing Line - Synergism and the Perfection of Salvation with a Brief Comment on Morey and the Infamous Hadith

The Dividing Line - Sola Ecclesia Preached by Robert Sungenis, and a Response to Robert Morey, et al.

Michael J. Kruger - New Testament Reliability

Quotables - J.R.R. Tolkien

“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”

- Bilbo Baggins

- from The Fellowship of the Ring

Quotables - Johnathan Edwards

"They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, not as creditors."

—Jonathan Edwards

Quoatables - Dr. James White

"I honestly do not understand how anyone can say 'I believe the Bible is the Word of God' without being passionate about that confession. I love the Trinity, justification by faith, the Resurrection, and sola scriptura. I do not pretend to be dispassionate about these things, and, as such, I stand firmly on this assertion: Christian scholarship that lacks passion about the truth is not worthy of the name Christian to begin with. If dispassion and detachment are necessary attributes of scholarship, then I do not seek the appellation. I cannot comprehend dry faith, arid confession, or mere mental assent."

- James White, from Scripture Alone, p.10

Just Colorin'

 

A Baptism Debate: Pastor Bill Shisko and Dr. James White

A very good debate on the topic of baptism. Pastor Bill Shisko represents the Paedo Baptist view. Dr. James White represents the Credo Baptist view.

Quotables - R.C. Sproul

Building Time at Home Depot

Beary Fun

Atheist Quotables - Thomas Nagel

 “I speak from experience, being strongly subject to this fear myself: I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers. It isn’t just that I don’t believe in God and, naturally, hope that I’m right in my belief. It’s that I hope there is no God! I don’t want there to be a God; I don’t want the universe to be like that. My guess is that this cosmic authority problem is not a rare condition and that it is responsible for much of the scientism and reductionism of our time. One of the tendencies it supports is the ludicrous overuse of evolutionary biology to explain everything about human life, including everything about the human mind …. This is a somewhat ridiculous situation …. [I]t is just as irrational to be influenced in one’s beliefs by the hope that God does not exist as by the hope that God does exist.”

Nagel, Thomas, "The Last Word", pp. 130–131, Oxford University Press, 1997. Dr Nagel, Professor of Philosophy and Law Emeritus at New York University

Quoatables - Charles Spurgeon

"Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter."

 

— Charles Spurgeon

1st Clement - Chapter 56

"Let us then also pray for those who have fallen into any sin, that meekness and humility may be given to them, so that they may submit, not unto us, but to the will of God. For in this way they shall secure a fruitful and perfect remembrance from us, with sympathy for them, both in our prayers to God, and our mention of them to the saints. Let us receive correction, beloved, on account of which no one should feel displeased. Those exhortations by which we admonish one another are both good [in themselves] and highly profitable, for they tend to unite us to the will of God. For thus saith the holy Word: “The Lord hath severely chastened me, yet hath not given me over to death.” “For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth.” “The righteous,” saith it, “shall chasten me in mercy, and reprove me; but let not the oil of sinners make fat my head.” And again he saith, “Blessed is the man whom the Lord reproveth, and reject not thou the warning of the Almighty. For He causes sorrow, and again restores [to gladness]; He woundeth, and His hands make whole. He shall deliver thee in six troubles, yea, in the seventh no evil shall touch thee. In famine He shall rescue thee from death, and in war He shall free thee from the power of the sword. From the scourge of the tongue will He hide thee, and thou shalt not fear when evil cometh. Thou shalt laugh at the unrighteous and the wicked, and shalt not be afraid of the beasts of the field. For the wild beasts shall be at peace with thee: then shalt thou know that thy house shall be in peace, and the habitation of thy tabernacle shall not fail. Thou shall know also that thy seed shall be great, and thy children like the grass of the field. And thou shall come to the grave like ripened corn which is reaped in its season, or like a heap of the threshing-floor which is gathered together at the proper time.” Ye see, beloved, that protection is afforded to those that are chastened of the Lord; for since God is good, He corrects us, that we may be admonished by His holy chastisement."

How Soveriegn Is God?

If God is sovereign, everything will work for the good of the believer.

 

If God is not sovereign, then there is no guarantee that anything will.

Quotables - R.C. Sproul

Quotables - R.C. Sproul

Because there are no expendable or disposable people, every life is worth honoring, protecting, and saving.

- R.C. Sproul

Quotables - Albert Mohler

"What we laugh at, we will come to terms with."

- Albert Mohler, President: Southern Baptist Seminary

For the Love of Legos

Two Ways to say the Same Thing

Finalizing the divorce yesterday has evoked in me tremendous feelings of failure as a man.

There may be no greater way of evoking a feeling of failure in manhood than signing an unwanted divorce.