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08JUN 2023

Seeing and Believing

God’s salvation does not depend on seeing a thing. Life itself is an invisible force. No one can invent even a grain of sand from nothing. It’s all just here by divine fiat. Not a single human eye saw the heavens and the earth materialize, yet it’s all present. Think of just how few people……..[Read More]

28MAY 2023

The Finish Line in Mind

When a runner begins a race, he or she has something on their mind. If possible, it’s victory in the race. Perhaps they’ve won a race before. Perhaps they’ve only seen victory in their mind’s eye before. But they start with the finish in mind. Presuming that you did, reader, why did you begin with……..[Read More]

21MAY 2023

Visible Truth Under the Invisible God

No one believes because they’ve seen. All who soundly know God and God’s ways know that nothing converts except conversion. This life, between the Fall and the Second Coming, has a design all its own. We don’t see God face to face in this life. Matthew 5:8 contains the great promise of one day seeing……..[Read More]

13MAY 2023

LBCF 1689 Reflections. Part 255. Last One

Reflections on the Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689 23 Aug 14 began a perhaps unbroken, orderly, and personal journey through my favorite written confession of faith. These are my personal reflections on this beloved historic Particular Baptist confession of the Christian Faith. NEXT (AND LAST)- Chapter 32: Of the Last Judgment. Paragraph 3: “As Christ……..[Read More]

06MAY 2023

LBCF 1689 Reflections. Part 254

Reflections on the Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689 23 Aug 14 began a perhaps unbroken, orderly, and personal journey through my favorite written confession of faith. These are my personal reflections on this beloved historic Particular Baptist confession of the Christian Faith. NEXT- Chapter 32: Of the Last Judgment. Paragraph 2: “The end of God’s……..[Read More]

29APR 2023

LBCF 1689 Reflections. Part 253

Reflections on the Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689 23 Aug 14 began a perhaps unbroken, orderly, and personal journey through my favorite written confession of faith. These are my personal reflections on this beloved historic Particular Baptist confession of the Christian Faith. NEXT- Chapter 32: Of the Last Judgment. Paragraph 1: “God hath appointed a……..[Read More]

21APR 2023

LBCF 1689 Reflections. Part 252

Reflections on the Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689 23 Aug 14 began a perhaps unbroken, orderly, and personal journey through my favorite written confession of faith. These are my personal reflections on this beloved historic Particular Baptist confession of the Christian Faith. NEXT- Chapter 31. Of the State of Man after Death and of the……..[Read More]

14APR 2023

Time Flies

Today, I end a 26-year worldwide journey. I’ll spare you the details. As I ease out of my now empty office in Texas, I’m reminded of so many things in this bittersweet hour. There’s one thought I’m grateful to share with you, readers. I look around me and I’m surrounded by modern blessings. Wonderful things!……..[Read More]

11APR 2023

Proof and Truth

I’ve noticed that people never seek proof for what they love. Faith is always something already at work in us. A great tactic of the enemies in our day is to *pretend* to reverse this in the minds of secularists (various loves already afoot) to claim to only want “proof” of what opposes their faith……..[Read More]

06APR 2023

LBCF 1689 Reflections. Part 251

Reflections on the Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689 23 Aug 14 began a perhaps unbroken, orderly, and personal journey through my favorite written confession of faith. These are my personal reflections on this beloved historic Particular Baptist confession of the Christian Faith. NEXT- Chapter 31. Of the State of Man after Death and of the……..[Read More]

21MAR 2023

LBCF 1689 Reflections. Part 250

Reflections on the Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689 23 Aug 14 began a perhaps unbroken, orderly, and personal journey through my favorite written confession of faith. These are my personal reflections on this beloved historic Particular Baptist confession of the Christian Faith. NEXT- Chapter 31. Of the State of Man after Death and of the……..[Read More]

04MAR 2023

LBCF 1689 Reflections. Part 249

Reflections on the Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689 23 Aug 14 began a perhaps unbroken, orderly, and personal journey through my favorite written confession of faith. These are my personal reflections on this beloved historic Particular Baptist confession of the Christian Faith. NEXT- Chapter 31. Of the State of Man after Death and of the……..[Read More]

27FEB 2023

LBCF 1689 Reflections. Part 248

Reflections on the Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689 23 Aug 14 began a perhaps unbroken, orderly, and personal journey through my favorite written confession of faith. These are my personal reflections on this beloved historic Particular Baptist confession of the Christian Faith. NEXT- Chapter 30. Of the Lord’s Supper. Paragraph 8: “All ignorant and ungodly……..[Read More]

12FEB 2023

LBCF 1689 Reflections. Part 247

Reflections on the Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689 23 Aug 14 began a perhaps unbroken, orderly, and personal journey through my favorite written confession of faith. These are my personal reflections on this beloved historic Particular Baptist confession of the Christian Faith. NEXT- Chapter 30. Of the Lord’s Supper. Paragraph 7: “Worthy receivers, outwardly partaking……..[Read More]

09FEB 2023

A Thought From Under the Heavens

I can’t see stuff like this enough. I’m both humbled and terrified of the God I love and who loves me and made and sustains it all. And that for his renown entered into it as a baby ~2K years ago. Yes, I am a Christian!   All of this space. All of the unfathomable……..[Read More]

05FEB 2023

LBCF 1689 Reflections. Part 246

Reflections on the Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689 23 Aug 14 began a perhaps unbroken, orderly, and personal journey through my favorite written confession of faith. These are my personal reflections on this beloved historic Particular Baptist confession of the Christian Faith. NEXT- Chapter 30. Of the Lord’s Supper. Paragraph 6: “That doctrine which maintains……..[Read More]

29JAN 2023

LBCF 1689 Reflections. Part 245

Reflections on the Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689 23 Aug 14 began a perhaps unbroken, orderly, and personal journey through my favorite written confession of faith. These are my personal reflections on this beloved historic Particular Baptist confession of the Christian Faith. NEXT- Chapter 30. Of the Lord’s Supper. Paragraph 5: “The outward elements in……..[Read More]

16JAN 2023

Evolution Is Just Bad Philosophy

There’s a reason why neither Jesus nor any of the prophets commented on the kind of naturalistic evolution in vogue in our generation. On the idea that mankind, before we ever became mankind-ish, had wiggled out of the oceans away from our amoebic ancestry. Obviously, the main reason is that he, the Creator of it……..[Read More]

26DEC 2022

LBCF 1689 Reflections. Part 244

Reflections on the Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689 23 Aug 14 began a perhaps unbroken, orderly, and personal journey through my favorite written confession of faith. These are my personal reflections on this beloved historic Particular Baptist confession of the Christian Faith. NEXT- Chapter 30. Of the Lord’s Supper. Paragraph 4: “The denial of the……..[Read More]

14DEC 2022

LBCF 1689 Reflections. Part 243

Reflections on the Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689 23 Aug 14 began a perhaps unbroken, orderly, and personal journey through my favorite written confession of faith. These are my personal reflections on this beloved historic Particular Baptist confession of the Christian Faith. NEXT- Chapter 30. Of the Lord’s Supper. Paragraph 3: “The Lord Jesus hath,……..[Read More]

06DEC 2022

LBCF 1689 Reflections. Part 242

Reflections on the Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689 23 Aug 14 began a perhaps unbroken, orderly, and personal journey through my favorite written confession of faith. These are my personal reflections on this beloved historic Particular Baptist confession of the Christian Faith. NEXT- Chapter 30. Of the Lord’s Supper. Paragraph 2: “In this ordinance Christ……..[Read More]

24NOV 2022

The Sanctuary God

Happy Thanksgiving 2022! “My heart overflows with a good theme; I address my verses to the King; my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.” Psalm 45:1. Life on earth itself. What on earth is it about? I picture a lush garden scene suitable for pleasures I’ve never yet really experienced on a cool morning, and as if……..[Read More]

23NOV 2022

Happy Thanksgiving!

When you think of the word “citizenship” what first comes to mind for you I wonder? It was likely just where you were born or where you now live? If you’ve immigrated from one country to another your citizenship may mean far more to you than it does to others. I’ve interviewed people who’ve fled……..[Read More]

19NOV 2022

LBCF 1689 Reflections. Part 241

Reflections on the Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689 23 Aug 14 began a perhaps unbroken, orderly, and personal journey through my favorite written confession of faith. These are my personal reflections on this beloved historic Particular Baptist confession of the Christian Faith. NEXT- Chapter 30. Of the Lord’s Supper. Paragraph 1: “The supper of the……..[Read More]

05NOV 2022

LBCF 1689 Reflections. Part 240

Reflections on the Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689 23 Aug 14 began a perhaps unbroken, orderly, and personal journey through my favorite written confession of faith. These are my personal reflections on this beloved historic Particular Baptist confession of the Christian Faith. NEXT- Chapter 29. Of Baptism. Paragraph 4: “Immersion, or dipping of the person……..[Read More]