Heaven
The Most Important Thing By Pastor Anton Bosch Most people, whether Christians or not, have some ideas about a future life that could be called heaven. Many of those ideas are misguided or plain wrong and, sadly, even reasonably well taught Christians may have wrong ideas of what heaven is all about. In a recent […]
Old or Just Sensitive?
The New (Age) Music in the Churches Today An Editorial by Pastor John Shipman, New Zealand I’m a forty year old but one would think I’m eighty years old! That is if you listen to worship in today’s churches. Gone are the days of lovely, Word inspired hymns. No, it will not attract the young […]
When Christ Died For Us
Devotional Thoughts Excerpted from Matthew Henry’s Commentary on Romans 5:6-11 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, […]
The Union and Communion with Christ
A devotional message By J.C. Philpot In our Meditations on the sacred humanity of the adorable Redeemer we must never, even in thought, separate His human nature from His divine. Even when His sacred body lay in the grave, and was thus for a small space of time severed from His pure and holy soul […]
Overcomer or Succumber?
Today’s Evangullible Church By Warren B. Smith overcome–to get the better of in a struggle; to conquer succumb–to give way (to), to yield, to submit (to succumb to persuasion) In today’s evangullible church, countless believers are yielding to the temptations of our Adversary and falling away (Luke 8:13). Giving in to the compromised teachings of […]
RHEMA SCRIPTURA
Neologisms for Evangelicals RHEMA SCRIPTURA [rhā’-mä] [skriptər’ uh] [Strong’s G4487 – rhēma from ῥέω (G4483) 1) that which is or has been uttered by the living voice, thing spoken, word; 2) subject matter of speech, thing spoken of. See HERE for biblical instances of this term.] [Scriptura: 1250–1300; Middle English and Latin scrīptūra writing. See […]
Pan-Evangelicalism Driven “Off-Message”. . .
. . . by diverting attention from the Gospel to ineffective political attempts to legislate morality An Editorial by Rev. Dr. Orrel Steinkamp We oldies lament how American culture has changed especially in the last 50 years. The Christian influence that shaped Western culture worldwide through the 19th century has given way to practical atheism […]
IMPRESSIA SCRIPTURA
Neologisms for Evangelicals IMPRESSIA SCRIPTURA [Impressia: 1325–75; Middle English impressio (u) n and Latin impressiōn- (stem of impressiō), equivalent to impress (us) (see impress1) + -iōn- -ion; Impressionism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressionism A style of painting associated mainly with French artists of the late-nineteenth century which sought to re-create the general impression of a scene by constructing their […]
“Deliteralizing” the Bible: from Plato to Peterson
Scripture amidst the Shadows By Pastor Larry DeBruyn “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.” The Apostle Paul to the Colossians (2:8, KJV) “Truth did not come into the world naked, but in symbols and images.”[1] […]
SOLA MYSTICA
Neologisms for Evangelicals SOLA MYSTICA [(soh’-luh) (mis’-tik-uh)] [Sola 1685–95; and Italian, Latin sōlus alone] [Mystica:1275–1325; Middle English mystic; Latin mysticus; Greek mystikós, equivalent to mýst (ēs) an initiate into the mysteries + -ikos -ic; akin to myeîn to initiate, teach] Mystical experience alone—in contrast to the Reformation which set forth the doctrine of Sola Scriptura […]