Christian Rant: It’s None of Your Business
On Gossips, Meddlers and Busybodies
There is a sin, so destructive that it rips apart families, destroys friendships and decimates entire covenant communities. There is a sin, so reprehensible, that God associates it with the worst sorts of wickedness. There is a sin, so heinous, that God gives only the most …
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What’s Wrong With a Seminary Education?
Reforming the Ministry
Some Suggestions How to Get out of the Hole the Seminaries Dug for Us
It’s not my fault; really! I never wanted to be a pastor. Oh, I knew as soon as God regenerated my heart that being a Christian meant total commitment to Jesus as Lord. But …
Girlie-Men in the Pulpit
Or, The Feminization of the American Clergy
Now I can already hear the PC crowd screaming for my head for saying this, but hey guys, someone, somewhere has to take a stand on this controversial issue and let the chips fall where they may; men and women are different. There, I said …
The Acid Test: Binding and Loosing
What about all that “binding and loosing” Jesus talks about in the Bible? Does He mean that Christians have the authority over the demonic?
There are two passages in particular that are most relevant to this question; Matthew 16:19 and 18:18. And as we say every week, the first step in interpretation is to …
Building a “Great” Church
A book review of “Good to Great”
By Jim Collins- Published by HarperCollins, 2001
As Christians, we MUST start with the presupposition of the ultimate authority of God’s infallible Word over area sphere of life. Every thought, every concept must be submitted to the …
Confessions of a Recovering Evanjellyfish
Hello, my name is Brian and I am an Evanjellyfish. Yes, that’s right, though I have been reformed now for 15 years, I still have to live life one day at a time lest I fall back into my gutless, spineless, old ways. My story is not all that unusual; like most …
Promises, Promises!
A review of David Hagopian and Douglas Wilson’s new book, A Biblical Challenge to Promise Keepers
Rev. Brian M. Abshire
Several years ago, an old friend with whom I had lost contact, called to see how things were going. As we got caught up on kids and jobs, how fat we were getting and …
The Nature of Church Unity
“If therefore there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion, make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intention one purpose” Phil …