Bible/Theology

As an introduction to Mark Park’s article on Rob Bell’s book “Velvet Elvis”, I mentioned my lack of success in finding adequate reason to be anything but even more disenchanted with Bell’s Velvet Elvis than Gina was with my first encounter with the Velvet Elvis portrait of years ago. Well, this prompted someone to request…

Here is a question that I answered recently, which I thought might be helpful to some who have had the same question or one of a similar nature. The first paragraph is the question that I received and the last two are my answer.

The following is intended to summarize our seven week study of the biblical teaching on healing and examination of the claims of modern day faith healers in light of Scripture. I encourage you to listen to the entire series on healing if you were not present when we studied this together. The series on healing…

Francis J. Beckwith, a wonderful Christian apologist and former President of The Evangelical Theological Society, has taken his stand with the Roman Catholic Church. I have just a few comments. Dr. Beckwith is an outstanding Christian scholar, and from what I know about him, quite a gentleman. Consequently, my comments are not intended to be…

Deacons should play an important role in the life and ministry of the local church, and they very often do. Unfortunately, their New Testament role is often obfuscated by man’s wisdom. In Baptist churches and other local churches that are similarly structured, the title of deacon can easily become an honor to be bestowed, a…

The KJV has been used mightily of God as His church has proclaimed the wonderful truths of Scripture throughout the world for nearly four hundred years. The Bible is the best seller of all books for all times, and the KJV is the best selling Bible of all times. The poetic nature of the the…

The number of Bible translations has grown significantly and there seems to be no end in sight. This can be rather confusing for most people since they are, more often than not, unaware of the kinds or purposes of translations and/or what they are based on. Some Bibles like the New International Version are intended…

The following is intended to summarize our two month study on the New Testament teaching about speaking in tongues and modern day claims. I encourage you to listen to the entire series on tongues if you were not present when we studied this together. The series on tongues is really a part of a larger…

I spoke at Paradigm last Thursday night on the subject of worship. I reminded them that about half of all that the Bible says about worship is condemning false worship. As a matter of fact, the amount of Scripture devoted to false worship, along with the subtlety of false worship, should cause every Christian to…

Recently, The Roundtable in Theology at Trinity Baptist Church demonstrated how antagonists compare Genesis chapter one with chapter two and as a result, portray Genesis one as mere poetry, fiction, or myth–anything but historical prose. At times this contradictory relationship is due to simply misunderstanding the nature of Genesis one and two, but often it…