The Surgeon General Says…
I’m old enough to remember when smoking cigarettes was cool. All the beautiful actresses and handsome actors in movies and on TV smoked. It was considered both sexy and elegant. Many of my relatives smoked cigarettes and used other forms of tobacco. I recall commercials in which even doctors promoted certain brands of cigarettes. Some […]
Brodawki na naszych bohaterach (Marka 14:71)
Jeśli chcesz być pod wrażeniem, przeczytaj historię Dietera Denglera, jednego z zaledwie trzydziestu trzech jeńców wojennych, którzy uciekli podczas wojny w Wietnamie. Gwarantuję, że pomyślisz lub nawet powiesz: „Nigdy nie mógłbym zrobić tego, co on”. Jego historia jest legendą, szczególnie wśród tych, którzy służyli w wojsku. Dengler dorastał w Niemczech podczas II wojny światowej i […]
A Servant Becomes a King
Agur, a man of whom we know very little, wrote Proverbs 30. Most students of the Bible will recognize one of the characteristics of his writing. He likes to enumerate several things that have something in common, then up the number by one. Proverbs 30:21-23 is an example. Agur says that there are “three things” […]
Hearing and Doing: An Opportunity
But He answered and said to them, “My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it” (Luke 8:21). In Luke 8:21, the Lord stresses the importance of hearing and doing the wordi of God. Some take this verse as being addressed to unbelievers. They need to hear the […]
Looking for Good Employees
I have a lot of respect for people who can start their own businesses. They’re able to take a chance and do something new. It’s like rolling the dice. It’s exciting. But they don’t take the safe route. In this area, I’m the opposite. I’m happy working for somebody who’s already started a profitable business. […]
The Wages of Sin
Careful students of the Word of God have pointed out to me the deadly consequences of sin. Most Evangelicals say that sins send a person to the lake of fire. That is not true. A person who is cast into the lake of fire will be there because they did not believe in Jesus for […]
Second Peter 2:22 Revisited
Second Peter 2:22 is often considered a problem text for the Free Grace position. Peter speaks of a person who has the “knowledge” of the Lord and Savior of Jesus Christ. Such a person has “escaped the pollution of the world.” He has lived a righteous life. Is this a description of a believer or […]
When a Righteous Person Disappoints (2 Tim 4:10)
Many people in churches today believe that a true believer cannot fail morally, at least not too badly. If such a person “backslides” for an extended period, it shows he is a false professor, according to their theology. Those who understand the grace of God know that such theology is nonsense. The Bible teaches that […]
Kada teologija nije dobra
Kao bivši vojni kapelan, a sada civil koji puno vremena provodi raspravljajući o teologiji s drugima, često nailazim na jedan teološki sustav više nego na bilo koji drugi. Neki ga nazivaju kalvinizam. Drugi ga zovu „Spasenje Gospodstva” (Lordship Salvation). Kako god ga nazivali, jedno od njegovih načela je da svi istinski vjernici slušaju Gospodina. Naravno, […]
Four Very Successful Women Farmers (Luke 8:8)
Luke 8:4-15 presets Luke’s version of the parable of the four soils. Most readers of this blog are familiar with this parable that the Lord taught. One of the differences between Luke’s version and Mark’s is found in Luke 8:8. Mark says that good soil produces a crop of thirty, sixty or a hundredfold (Mark […]