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“I Got Gay Married. I Got Gay Divorced. I Regret Both.”

07/02/2017 0 Comment

“I appreciate Maran’s candor in this article. I do think it is revealing. I suspect that many of those who marched for legal gay marriage in our country weren’t really that concerned about adding traditional marriage norms to gay relationships—norms of permanence, covenant, fidelity, etc.”

Meredith Maran had an interesting essay in The New York Times over the weekend: “I Got Gay Married. I Got Gay Divorced. I Regret Both.” In it, she describes her “marriage” to her lesbian partner in 2008 and t..

Jesus Loves the Rich

07/02/2017 0 Comment

“The Jesus of Scripture never showed partiality to the poor as over agains the rich. The Jesus of Scripture came into the world to redeem rich and poor. A brief survey of the Gospel record teaches us this important lesson–a lesson that we so desperately need to learn if we are to be faithful witnesses to the saving grace of God in Christ to all in in a day in which the rich are vilified by the poor.”

Many people have a conception of Jesus that is–to put it as bluntly as possible–substantively d..

No Little Women: Know What We’ve Got Before She’s Gone

07/02/2017 0 Comment

“It is abnormal for men, as effeminate as many are today, to actually be feminine, and frankly, impossible. What woman has inside her can only be cheaply imitated by a man to another man. She alone can shine as female from within. Only Hannah can cry and sing over motherhood. Only Abigail can slow down David and make him marvel at her delicate influence.”

Jennifer Marie, my dear wife, died on the fourteenth of September last year.[1] She was thirty-eight. We had barely made it to our eighteenth..

Rahab

07/02/2017 0 Comment

HEBREWS 11:31 NKJ
31 By faith the harlot Rahab did not perish . . .

Rahab was not a descendant of Israel. She was a harlot from the
city of Jericho, which God commanded Israel to utterly destroy.
But because of her faith, all that was hers was spared. She
also became an ancestor of Jesus of Nazareth, being the great-
great-grandmother of King David (Matthew 1:5-6).

No matter who you are, or what you have done, there is hope for
you. Through faith in God, and His provision, your life can be
cha..

Another Golden Oldie on 2K

05/02/2017 0 Comment

Affirmation: God has established a pluriformity of institutions (e.g. civil society) for the sake of social order.
Denial: the church has no calling to establish social order but will have an indirect influence on peace and order by encouraging godliness in her members.

Thanks to Zrim, I remembered another internet intervention about 2k. This one was at Greenbaggins at the instigation of Reed DePace. It was a three–part series but here reproduced in one post.

Theological Affirmations

1) Affir..

Don’t Waste the Sunday School Hour

05/02/2017 0 Comment

It is appalling today how so little is known by teenagers about biblical doctrine in conservative churches. Many cannot define the doctrine of the Trinity. They don’t know the difference between justification and sanctification. They don’t know what the ordo salutis is. If our children grow up without knowing basic Christian doctrine, then we are failing them. Bland and generic non-denominational Sunday School literature will not suffice.

There is nothing particularly biblical about a Sunday S..

Christ Is Our Passover

05/02/2017 0 Comment

God gave instructions to the Israelites so they could escape
the judgment coming on the Egyptians.

EXODUS 12:7,13 NKJ
7 And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two
doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it.
13Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where
you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and
the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the
land of Egypt.

The Egyptians had no protection from the destroyer, but t..

What Is The Word Of Faith Movement?

03/02/2017 0 Comment

What is the “word of faith” movement? Is it biblical?
Miracles in our Mouths?I remember hearing a pastor of a large megachurch say, “You’ve got a miracle in your mouth. You can speak things into being that are not yet.” When I heard it, it actually reminded me of a Bible verse where it says, “For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm” (Psalm 33:9), but the “he” wasn’t a man, it was God. It’s similar to when “God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light” (Gen 1:3). W..

Thought for the evening of Thu February 2, 2017

02/02/2017 0 Comment

Verse”And these are ancient things.” — 1ch 4:22
ThoughtYet not so ancient as those precious things which are the delight of our souls. Let us for a moment recount them, telling them over as misers count their gold. The sovereign choice of the Father, by which he elected us unto eternal life, or ever the earth was, is a matter of vast antiquity, since no date can be conceived for it by the mind of man. We were chosen from before the foundations of the world. Everlasting love went with the choice,..

PCA Minister Mark Rowden Called Home to Glory

01/02/2017 0 Comment

Mark Allen Rowden, 59, was born and raised in St. Louis, MO. He earned a B.A. in Psychology from Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, GA, and his M. Div. from Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis. He was ordained in November 1988 as a minister in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). Rowden’s ministry included church planting and serving congregations in Missouri, Florida, Georgia, and most recently as pastor of Immanuel PCA in Mesa, AZ.

On a recent visit to Rowden in the ICU at Scot..