Ronnie W. Rogers

The Importance of Apologetics in Evangelism

By Ronnie W. Rogers / June 20, 2016 / Comments Off on The Importance of Apologetics in Evangelism

Apologetics, which is intellectually stimulating as well as hard work, is critical to engaging our culture. It is a fallacious juxtaposition to ask should we seek to engage people with only the simple gospel, apologetics, or a loving life because it is not either/or but all of the above working in concert. Truly loving people…

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Think About IT: The Unnoticed Servants of Christ

By Ronnie W. Rogers / June 13, 2016 / Comments Off on Think About IT: The Unnoticed Servants of Christ

If many will not serve Christ in obscurity, we can never present Him to the world with clarity. There are many in the annals of Christian history who are studied, celebrated, and extolled as role models to be followed. These exemplaries of Christianity are rightly known for their labors, sacrifices, and surrender to God’s will…

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Human Wisdom Is Not a Substitute for Divine Wisdom

By Ronnie W. Rogers / June 6, 2016 / Comments Off on Human Wisdom Is Not a Substitute for Divine Wisdom

We can see the cooperation between human wisdom and divine wisdom in the need to build and maintain the physical church building with primarily human wisdom, and the spiritual church building with exclusively divine wisdom (1 Corinthians 3:1-21). Blurring this distinction results in being in opposition to God. We build the temple according to God’s…

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The Quest for God’s Wisdom

By Ronnie W. Rogers / May 30, 2016 / Comments Off on The Quest for God’s Wisdom

“But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him” (James 1:5). It is only when we realize that our human wisdom is foolishness in pleasing God, bringing men to Christ, maturing men and women in the faith,…

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The Carnal Mind Loves Some Scriptures

By Ronnie W. Rogers / May 23, 2016 / Comments Off on The Carnal Mind Loves Some Scriptures

The carnal mind will accept the command to love and simultaneously reject God’s definition of what love really involves. For example, a husband may say a hearty “amen” when the preacher quotes “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her” (Ephesians 5:25). However, he does not…

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One Former Longtime Calvinist’s Journey from Calvinism to Extensivism: A Summary

By Ronnie W. Rogers / May 16, 2016 / Comments Off on One Former Longtime Calvinist’s Journey from Calvinism to Extensivism: A Summary

I was a Calvinist for over thirty-three years and was unabashedly so for the first twenty. I spent the last thirteen years questioning and evaluating the harmony between Calvinism and Scripture and only doffed the label Calvinist in the final months of that journey. A respondent to one of my blogs on SBC Today commented…

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Building the Local Church: Our Wisdom Determines Our Loss or Gain of Rewards

By Ronnie W. Rogers / May 9, 2016 / Comments Off on Building the Local Church: Our Wisdom Determines Our Loss or Gain of Rewards

There are a number of ideas regarding what constitutes “wood, hay, straw,” and “gold silver precious stone” in 1Corinthians 3:12. I suggest that gold, silver, and precious stones refer to God’s wisdom (as revealed in His Word), and wood, hay, and straw refer to man’s wisdom. The key to understanding the Corinthian problem is Paul’s…

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Think About IT: Quick to Judge While Intolerant of Reciprocity

By Ronnie W. Rogers / May 2, 2016 / Comments Off on Think About IT: Quick to Judge While Intolerant of Reciprocity

We desire to be thought of as a good example of how people should think about other people. A quite noble desire; however, if we desire to be such an example, we must be slow to think the worst of others because eagerness to think unkindly of others is more often than not symptomatic of…

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Pastors Beware of Being a Purveyor of Biblical Illiteracy

By Ronnie W. Rogers / April 18, 2016 / Comments Off on Pastors Beware of Being a Purveyor of Biblical Illiteracy

To think of pastors, some of the most biblically trained people in the world and by in large the most biblically trained people that the majority of Christians come in contact with on a regular basis, becoming merely the masters of quips, quotes, and clichés, which effectively only keeps people biblically illiterate, is unimaginable except…

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God’s Temple, the Local Church

By Ronnie W. Rogers / April 11, 2016 / Comments Off on God’s Temple, the Local Church

“If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are” (1 Corinthians 3:17). In our day, when the local church is designed by cultural gurus who exalt tertiary aspects to primary status, and is often evaluated by whether she is…

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