The Potter's Promise: A Biblical Defense of Traditional Soteriology by Leighton Flowers My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is an outstanding resource for those who want to look into Traditionalist Soteriology. Dr. Flowers dives deep into traditionally Calvinistic passages and demonstrates some of the faulty exegesis and hermeneutical interpretations of Reformed thinkers. Not afraid …
Nabeel Qureshi – Love is the message
One of my contemporary heroes of the faith is Nabeel Qureshi. Nabeel came to faith at the great price of risking loosing his family. But the call of God was heavy upon him and he followed the truth and met Jesus. Nabeel was diagnosed with stage IV stomach cancer last year. Through his YouTube Channel …
Living in the culture – reflections on Ephesians 4
What is God’s responsibility for unity and what are the believers’ responsibilities? In the first section of Ephesians 4, Paul makes reference to unity or describes unity. The oneness of the faith in vss. 3 – 5 stresses a theological unity. Vss. 11-14 describe leadership roles that build up the maturity of the body in …
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God’s Justice
I recently had the privilege of preaching at the Vineyard Church of Rock Hill on God's Justice. Many Thanks to the leadership team and Ben Ganson (who had some awesome closing comments) for trusting me in the pulpit! Here is the LINK Here is the Larry Norman song, The Great American Novel, that I quote …
Thoughts on Psalm 42/43
Why do the two questions in 42:5, "Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me?", lead the writer to refer to geographical locations? The writer of the Psalm is in deep despair. He began to answer his questions first by a declaration of hope. "Put your hope in God, for I …
What is CMA?
For those of you who have never heard of or experienced the Christian Motorcyclist Association, this video really explains is all with a really catchy tune: For more information, check out CMA's website.
Words mean things
This week I have been really focusing on the sections of the Face to Face book that deal with cultivating my character. Maybe it is because I am reading the book of Proverbs along with the book. On Day 22 this one struck me: “What is desirable in a person is kindness, And it is …
Do we really take at His word?
This week, as I was reading through my devotional material, I was looking for a theme to be thinking about. To be honest, that theme did not come until Sunday’s sermon. Pastor Paul had one line that just struck me, wrapping up all that I was thinking and reading about this week. He was reading …
On withdrawing form the culture…
This concept of spiritual growth is faulty for several reasons. First, it neglects the second of the most important commandments, to love others as we love ourselves. Loving is a doing verb – it implies, in fact, necessitates action. Loving others requires us to go outside of our spiritual bunker. By loving others, we can …
Suffering as a discipline
This threw me at first. Aren’t disciplines something we should seek to do? Aren’t they actions that we do to develop our spiritual lives? Well, yeah, they are. And when I have read that suffering is a spiritual discipline, it took me a while to think and ponder on it, but it made sense. Disciplines help to …
