Archive for 2014
Think About IT: Sins of Others
Anyone can rebuke a Christian for his or her sin, but it takes a mature spiritual Christian to give godly rebuke with a heart for restoration. A true heart for the restoration of a brother includes a willingness to be intimately involved in the process and a keen awareness of one’s own propensity to be…
Read MoreAnother Response To: Do the “Doctrines of Grace” Affect Evangelism?
This is another response from the previous blogger. This is the last response to my article “Do the Doctrines of Grace Affect Evangelism?” published on SBCToday 4/6/2014. The article is published here on my blog May 26, 2014 as well. You said, “It seems that most of the comments are in a reaction to how…
Read MoreA Response to my aritcle, “Do the Doctrines of Grace Affect Evangelism?
Following are two more responses to my article “Do the Doctrines of Grace Affect Evangelism?” published on SBCToday 4/6/2014. The article is published here on my blog May 26, 2014 as well. You said, “Also, most Calvinist would agree that God desires all people to be saved. Therefore, a Calvinist preacher can also stand before…
Read MoreA Response to: Do the ‘Doctrines of Grace’ Affect Evangelism?”
Following is a response to my article “Do the Doctrines of Grace Affect Evangelism?” published on SBCToday 4/6/2014. I published the same article on this blog 5/26/14. Hello Daniel Thanks for your interaction with my article, which begins, “Some Calvinist’s aver that ideas like limited atonement, unconditional election, and selective regeneration really make no difference…
Read MoreDo the “Doctrines of Grace” Affect Evangelism?
Some Calvinist’s aver that ideas like limited atonement, unconditional election, and selective regeneration really make no difference in the nature of the evangelistic endeavor, i.e. these are tertiary or irrelevant to the proclamation of the gospel. To wit, God being secretly pleased to withhold salvation from a vast proportion of the humanity that He created…
Read MoreObamaCare: The Affordable Care Act and the Decline of Religious Freedom
The loss of spiritual freedom for supposed physical freedom is reason enough to become informed, and to work and pray for the collapse of ObamaCare. Following are some of the ways that ObamaCare will further erode religious freedom in the U.S. Additionally, check out the “ObamaCare and its Mandates Fact sheet” at Alliance Defending Freedom.…
Read MoreThink About IT: The Limits of Scientific Knowledge about God
Science cannot say that there is no God, no evidence for God, or that God is not knowable because He is by definition beyond the detectability of laboratory experiments, and His existence offers the best inferential answer to explain some observable data.[1] As far as Richard Dawkins naturalistic assertion “that what is knowable is what…
Read MoreThink About IT: Growing Cold over Time
The familiarity with sin, human need, and tragedies can transform compassion into cold conversations. For example, the forty-year war in this country to end legalized abortion, which has taken the lives of fifty million innocent babies and wounded an inestimable amount of relatives and friends can seem so uncorrectable that Christian compassion, which requires involvement,…
Read MoreAnother Response To: The Exalted View of God in Scripture
Following is another of my responses to a comment to my article “The Exalted View of God in Scripture” posted on SBCToday.com in March 2014. This article, without all of the responses recorded on SBC Today, is also on this blog if you scroll down to April 7. Thanks for your response. I truly did enjoy…
Read MoreLuna Doll, the Sweetest Dog of All!
We have two Chihuahuas pictured here. Luna is on the left, and Lilly is on the right. They have been inseparable friends for eight years. If you visited the Rogers home and were not properly welcomed by Gina or me, Luna and Lilly always made up for our inhospitableness. This is true whether you were…
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