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" Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,...

" Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to His great mercy, He has caused us to be born again to a living h...

"Let your souls be filled and enlarged with everlasting admirings [sic] of that grace (that sovereign grace) which has so impregnably s...

Among those of a certain eschatological bent, the 'last days" of the New testament have been identified repeatedly with events curr...

" The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble ."  -Proverbs 16:4  I think that the least-...

As I am writing this, America is in the grip of chaos. America has been shaken by understandable protests over the police killings of black ...

Arminians often accuse Calvinists of denying the atonement to some people by our biblical claim that it was particular. That is, we Calvinis...

This is being posted for Christmas, 2019. We will talk a lot about the birth of Christ today. But I want to talk about why it matters that ...

" Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithyni...

I continue to see people who claim that the distinctive doctrines of Calvinism aren't biblical. However, as I have demonstrated frequent...

One thing that I have noticed when dealing with people from pseudo-Christian sects is that, when confronted with Scripture that flatly refu...

To be frank, I don't understand people who read the Bible, claim to believe it, but then also claim that it says that a true Christian c...

In Acts 20, Luke gives us an account of a trip by Paul to Miletus. From there, he calls for the elders from the church in nearby Ephesus to ...

In a brief pericope, Jesus says something shocking: " Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit ...

In various conversations, I have dealt with Oneness Pentecostals, Roman Catholics, Mormons, and Church of Christ members who claimed that I...

Before I start, I wanted to mention that this is my 600th post! In the Old Testament, God makes clear the point that He didn't want Hi...

Martin Luther said something with which I agree completely: " For as long as he [i. e., man] is persuaded that he himself can do even ...

Is morality objective? By that, I mean, are there certain things which are wrong by nature, not because of some normative standard, regard...

As I write this, I am working through the reading list for an apologetics course. The books mention several bible verses on the topic, such...

" Baptismal regeneration " is the doctrine regarding baptism that claims that it is essential to salvation. The details vary. So...