Pentecost Part 3: Repent and Evidence of God
The people who heard Peter’s Sermon are convicted. Peter’s instruction to them is more applicable to new believers today than even his sermon. In Part 3, this article in the Pentecost series will focus on the part of Pentecost called the Ingathering. 37Now when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the […]
Pentecost Part 2: Peter’s Sermon
This is a continuation of the three part series on Pentecost. Part 2 will focus on Peter’s Sermon. Following the organic event of people showing up because of a miracle performed be the Holy Spirit, the crowd comes to realize that they understand exactly what these Galileans are saying. In fact they realize that people they can’t […]
Pentecost Part 1: An Organic Event
The Book of Acts chapter 1 is like the first episode of a new season on a TV show you love. It has flashbacks and a set up for something major to come. The first Christians are instructed to stay in Jerusalem for the Holy Spirit. The disciples gather and take inventory of who is […]
Why the Prosperity Gospel is still popular
It’s oddly amazing that Christians have spent a lot of time and energy combating the Prosperity Gospel but the question is to what effect. Names like Joel Osteen, Creflo Dollar, Benny Hinn, Paula White-Cain, Joyce Meyer, TD Jakes, Kenneth Copeland, and the entire Trinity Broadcast Network, have been condemned repeatedly by numerous Christian sources. The […]
Hillsong’s Brian Houston condemns Christian athlete Israel Folau for quoting scripture
Yes you read that headline right. This story comes from Austrailia where the county’s largest megachurch, Hillsong, condemned rugby star, Israel Folau, for quoting scripture that condemned homosexuality, among other sins, and warned of hell. The two biblical passages paraphrased by Folau are 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 and Galatians 5:19-21. Now, this, predictably, earned a Fatwa from […]
There is no such thing as “giving back”
The title of this post is a bit of a paraphrase of a very impactful quote I heard earlier. The quote was relayed to me by Dave Ramsay, but he did not make the quote up himself. The idea that when someone gives money away, they are giving back is fundamentally wrong. They are not […]
NOQReport Why every Christian should study apologetics
JD Rucker, a colleague of mine over at NOQReport, created this video explaining the importance of apologetics for the walk of every Christian. As Christians, this is our calling as shown in the verse provided below. The importance of apologetics is not to take away from the importance of advancing our understanding of scripture or […]
PragerU explains Eye for an Eye
In a previous piece entitled: Is Social Justice compatible with Biblical Justice? I employed ideas I learned from Dennis Prager in this video. There are many concepts in law and justice we apply today that are biblical derived. “Eye for an eye” or the law of retaliation is a brilliant notion that contradicts the ancient Mesopotamians […]
Is Social Justice compatible with Biblical Justice?
In a growing movement referred to as Woke Evangelism, there is a greater emphasis on the church playing a role in social justice issues. This movement was sizable enough for church leaders to address with the Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel. The problem, that the SSJG points out, is that the notion of […]
How Churches are called to handle sex abuse
2018 has renewed many problems within the Catholic Church and their handling of pedophile priest, along with other sex abusers. Many Catholics so boldly deflect the issue of sexual abuse within the Church as a problem within God’s universal church, not specifically their denomination. Matt Walsh, a notoriously devoted Catholic wrote this in defense, practically accusing […]