Thoughts of a Christian Husband, Father, and Pastor
Imprecatory Psalms are those Psalms we have in the Bible where the psalmist calls out for God’s judgement and curses on those who have done evil. The perpetual problem for Christians is, ‘How do we take these Psalms? Do we still use them? Can we really say these things about people? Are we supposed to [...]
CH Spurgeon’s sermon “A Woman Which Was a Sinner” is based on Luke 7.37-38.
And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that he was reclining at table in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment, and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet [...]
The other night as we were standing in church, singing at the beginning of our prayer meeting, I was overwhelmed by God’s grace. The songs that Joshua and our ‘Band of Brothers’ choose to lead us in worship are always theologically-rich and packed with scriptural truth, so the fact that I would be overwhelmed by [...]
It seems to me to be an incredible blessing to live with the technology of the 21st century at our disposal. When the Bible was first written it was given to the people of God to be read aloud in their public worship services. Over the years, however, that practice was lost in our modern, [...]
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Conclusion.
Conclusion
It has been the intent of this series to present several of the exegetical arguments for the complementarian position. Admittedly, some arguments are more persuasive than others, but we have been firmly founded in the God-breathed texts from the Old and New Testaments throughout.
We [...]
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Conclusion.
The Trinity
Perhaps one of the more sobering truths about the egalitarian-complementarian debate is the reality that more is at stake than just the interpretation of a few words or a few verses. Rather, our whole vision of God is altered by how we view the [...]
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Conclusion.
Apostolic Proof Texts
When providing the basis for his statements with regard to the male-female authority relationship, the writer of the God-inspired text almost always appeals to an eternal principle, outside the realm of sin and never once does he appeal to the secular culture of [...]
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Conclusion.
Wives, Children, and then Slaves
It is purported by some that since Paul’s instructions to slaves and masters are now passé, it can be argued backward, that his instructions to wives must also be cultural, and thus passé as well. This is rejected outright for the [...]
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Conclusion.
Neither Male nor Female
Galatians 3:28 in no way abolishes gender distinctions, but rather, the false assumptions that value or worth could somehow be attached to the simple identification of an individual as a slave, free man, Jew, Gentile, male, or female. (After all, if it [...]
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Conclusion.
Purpose of this Paper
The purpose of this article is simple: It is my intention to lay out the foundational reasoning for why we believe what we do about the order of the male-female relationship. It is my conviction that the God-ordained roles assigned to men [...]
This is the last installment in this series, unless I stumble across something pretty amazing. This time I want to point out that two of our most famous (and deserving so!) hymns that we’ve sung in our churches for years are missing verses. Since the hymns are so popular I won’t post all the verses, [...]
Okay, honestly, who knew that what we usually sing as the Doxology has more than one verse?! It’s true. The words were written by Thomas Ken, published in the Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Scholars of Winchester College, in 1674.
Ken wrote this hymn at a time when the established church believed only [...]
I don’t know why, but for some reason over the past couple of decades it has become trendy to only sing parts of songs. It makes no sense. How can you follow any kind of flow of thought when you’re taking chunks out of the middle? You’re destroying an artist’s work and ripping the people [...]
In the spirit of the Christmas, and in the footsteps of kerux’s post, I thought it might be nice to post a Christmas hymn I found in an old Presbyterian hymnal that I have not seen elsewhere.
The words are written by Aurelius Clemens Prudentius (348-413AD). You can ask Dr. Haykin who he is, because [...]
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