Tag: faith
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Against the Seder; For the Lord’s Supper
There’s nothing more stupid in the church today than evangelicals doing a play-acting “Seder Supper.” First, we don’t need to do a fake Passover. The church already has the Lord’s Supper which is (among other things) the fulfillment of the old covenant Passover. Jesus gave us a meal. Why do something other than what he…
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February/March 2026 X Posts and Other Miscellanies: Imprecatory Psalms, Feminism vs. Femininity, War with Iran, Putnam on Diversity, American Christian Nationalism, Roosevelt on Islam, John Stott on the Cross, Thomas Manton on Covenant Children and Parenting, Free Market Capitalism, St. Patrick, Wealth, John 13, Empathy, Etc.
I recently did a podcast with Josh Haymes on love/hatred for enemies: This was a follow up to an earlier podcast we did on imprecatory psalms: Right Wing Watch took notice of our most recent episode — though they managed to miss the whole point of what we were saying: https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/any-means-necessary-christian-nationalists-call-destruction-their-political-enemies Of course, this article…
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Biblical Submission vs. Mutual Submission
A note on a wife’s submission to her husband: Egalitarians push the concept of “mutual submission” based on Ephesians 5:21. The grammatical problems with this way of reading that text have been pointed out many times by the better commentators. The egalitarian reading of the text is a novel interpretation. It’s a reading of the…
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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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March ’26 X Posts: Liberalism, Empathy, War with Iran, Parenting, Marriage, Politics, Israel, Foreign Policy, Etc.
If you really care for the poor and marginalized — let me rephrase that — if you really empathize with the poor and marginalized — in America, you will be in favor of closed borders and deportations because unlimited immigration hurts poor Americans the most. — About a year ago, I was on the Lancaster…
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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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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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