On 4 Jun, Clint H. asked:          “I have a question regarding the Sacraments/Communion…My two roommates and I hold a Bible study and fellowship night every Friday at our house. [Someone] stated that we should hold communion at our home. Both myself and my roommates hold severe reservations about "just doing Communion" at our Friday night events. I could not clearly articulate, at first...  Read More

 “For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him,” 2 Corinthians 5:21.           The doctrine of imputation is a theological term explaining how a Christian actually receives forgiveness for sin. It is where we draw our assurances from regarding the universe altering glories of justification. Those who are saved receive a complete pardon. Let...  Read More

    Regeneration is another word for the new birth. I believe that regeneration is best described in John 3:8 when Jesus says that it’s like the wind. “The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”           There are three analogies drawn for us in Scripture that encapsulate the or...  Read More

     Love is the driving force and guiding light in the Christian religion. Without it, every doctrine, every effort and every conviction becomes absurd. There are many among us, either by action or omission, who pervert love by declaring it free to accept everything the world wishes, but this isn’t love. We love only when we love through the Bible. Love is truth, and has its parameters. A lying l...  Read More

     On 8 May Stacey W. asked:      “Sitting up researching the other night I came across a blog talking about "dominionism". The claim made by the blogger is that the new Calvinism and the emergent movement is really "dominionism." He specifically named John Piper as being part of the Catholic infiltrated Lausanne movement and apparently the new reformation is to move the church back to its catho...  Read More

    Truth is necessary for salvation. A man can no more believe in a Jesus in whom he has not heard (Romans 10:14) than he can be saved by a false one, Matthew 24:5. Truth is found in all saved people. It is propositional truth that serves as the baseline for the right to then test the faith in any heart by its affections. Truth is the root; willing obedience is the fruit, John 14:15. Truth itself...  Read More