Christianity

Supporting Donald Trump Damages Our Christian Witness

Let us stay true to our calling.

I am a Christian, and an independent Baptist. There may be no more reliable anti-Democratic Party voting bloc in America than independent Baptists. The…

Our Duty

Fear God (and Him alone) and Keep His Commandments

“Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.”— George Washington, Speech to the Constitutional Convention (1787)

I Am Thankful

I am thankful, and my thankfulness is not undirected. It is unto Him, whose Name is blessed, the Lord God Almighty, the One who made me, the One Who cares for me in His pasture. And it is by the Lord Jesus, Whose sacrifice on the cross delivered me from indwelling sin and this body of death, and Whose…

Of Him and Through Him and To Him

The God of heaven and earth, of glory and hope, of love and peace, of whom the Bible says all things are of Him, through Him, and to Him; and further that He is before all things, and by Him all things consist; this God, the One who gave His only begotten Son, the Lord…

And this I pray 

19 years ago a friend & I parted ways for college. He left me a few Bible verses. They’ve stuck with me.

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; That…

On Faith & Debt

It is not faith that leads to debt. What leads to debt is lack of faith that God will meet your needs, and discontentment with God’s provision. So do not say that “the Lord provided,” when the provision came by financial enslavement. When God provides, it is without condition of any future obligation, leaving only our voluntary gratefulness.

The Order of Love

The first and greatest commandment is to love God. The second is to love people. Great danger arises from confusing this order. When we love men more than God, we lose even the true meaning of love. Its foundation is swept away. We reduce it to a mere feeling, with all the attendant malleability…

What hast thou that thou didst not receive?

Everything I have, God gave me.

— 1 Corinthians 4:7

What Hebrews 11 teaches about the product of faith

“By faith the walls of Jericho fell down,” and also “through faith” “others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment.” (Heb. 11.) Worldly victory is clearly not the product of faith in every…