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]
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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]