Tag: Bible
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Thomas Manton on Infant Faith and Infant Salvation
If without faith it be impossible to please God, then childrenmust have some kind of faith, else they can never be accepted to life. Iknow that the apostle doth principally speak of adult or grown persons,men of age, such as come to God, and seek him: but though, however, therule is general, there is no…
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Sermon Transcript: September 24, 2017 Reformation 500 Series — The Absolute Sovereignty of God (Romans 9:1-33)
An AI-produced transcript of my 9/24/17 sermon: 500 years ago, this October, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany. And so this is the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation this year. It’s an event in history truly worth celebrating. Martin Luther, John Calvin, Martin Bucer,…
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Dabney and Tesla Predicted the World You Live In 100+ Years Ago
A feature of wisdom is foresight — you can connect dots, gauge trajectories, and see where ideas will lead over time. Here are a couple of examples of men who saw where feminism would lead 100+ years ahead of our day. First, Southern Presbyterian theologian R. L. Dabney, who deal with feminism in its nascent…
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Antinomianism and Legalism
This is an old Reformation Day X post: A post for Reformation Day: We often think there are two ways to get the gospel wrong: there are legalists who try to earn God’s favor, and antinomians who presume on God’s favor. Legalists try too hard, antinomians are too lax. Legalists are slaves to the law,…
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Dispensationalism, Christendom, and Israel
[The following post is not intended as commentary on the current military operation in Iran. I will comment on that later. This is a theological point I’ve been thinking about for a while.] One of the things that I believe attracts modern Dispensationalists/evangelicals to the nation-state of Israel is not just their (flawed) exegesis and…
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Some Random Notes on Romans 11, Modern Israel, and the Land of Canaan
“The Church is Israel. This does not mean that the Church replaced Israel, nor does it mean that a natural Jew cannot be grafted back into the true Israel. They can, but only by bending a knee to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. God established Abraham and promised to bless his seed and all those…
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Does Modern Day Israel Have Right to the Land?
Why does the modern nation-state of Israel have a “right” to its land in the present day? Israel has a right to its land because the people who ruled it before them gave it to them. That’s it. That’s the sole rationale. And that’s just fine. All nations have their land based on gift, purchase,…
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More February 2026 X Posts and Other Miscellanies: Creation/Evolution, Spurgeon on Islam, Postmillennialism, Rise of Liberalism/Progressivism, Anti-Semitism, Rights, Drugs, Etc.
“O God, impress upon me the value of time, and give regulation to all my thoughts and to all my movements.” — Thomas Chalmers — “A piety which concerns itself only with man’s soul and leaves the world to the devil is a profane piety” — R.J. Rushdoony — “Faith stands in antithesis to works;…
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Jesus and the Fulfillment of Israel’s Covenant: Holy Land and Holy People
[Another version of this essay was published under the title “The Story of Israel” on the Theopolis website.] Today’s news headlines, popular podcasts, and social media discussions, are dominated with questions about the modern nation-state of Israel and land disputes in the Middle East. Who owns the land, sometimes called the “holy land”? I am…
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Pastors as Specialists in the Bible and Generalists in Culture/Life
Pastors, by definition, are generalists. We are supposed to be specialists in the Bible, but the Bible is so broad in its scope, a teacher of the Bible must be a generalist. A good pastor is one of the last generalists left in our highly specialized society. The Bible teaches on marriage, sex, parenting, money,…
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