In our introduction to this series, I tried to impress upon our readers that the Scripture teaches that all authority is from God, Who alone, arranges the extent and order of such. The Scriptures not only declare that it is the Sovereign God who limits this authority in the world, but these limits are to […]
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The Christian & Government: A Series Introduction
posted by Joel Taylor
Civil governments are the last to receive authority or freedom to act. This authority is given by God to governors at all levels to represent Him and His righteous will. No governor rules Scripturally who abuses the people wickedly. Have you ever had a passage of Scripture that troubled you in seeking to please God […]
Westminster Confession: New Birth is Unnecessary
posted by Joel Taylor
The Westminster Assembly has written: "The seed and posterity of the faithful, born within the Church, have by their birth, interest in the covenant and right to the seal of it…. Children by baptism are solemnly received into the bosom of the Visible Church…. They are Christians and federally holy before baptism, and therefore are […]
The Ultimate Statement of Musical Rebellion
posted by Joel Taylor
God does care about the music too. Punk music [including hip-hop] is the ultimate statement of musical rebellion. Changing the words and the artists and calling it Christian will never sanctify it. It has no place in a new Christian’s life.’… I cannot bring any of my old sinful desires and practices into worship to […]
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The Greatness of Child-like Faith
posted by Joel Taylor
Robert Lewis Dabney, in his work, Life and Campaigns of Lieutenant-General Thomas J. Jackson, describes an important key to the Christian faith and character of ‘Stonewall’ Jackson. He mentions that Jackson “embraced the doctrines common to all, with a faith so entire and prevalent.” This fine example of Christian integrity and the respect he received […]
Christian Zeal
posted by Joel Taylor
For the grace of God has appeared,bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness andworldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus, who gave Himself for us to redeem […]
Christian Rap Is A Lost Cause
posted by Joel Taylor
Sometimes I think this blog site could literally double, triple, or more in readership, if only I would do one thing: support and promote Christian, “reformed” rap/hip-Hop music and its artists. Maybe not, but maybe. Nah. I can’t do that because there’s something preventing me from doing so, the Bible. The pressure to do so […]
Davy Crockett vs. Welfare
posted by Joel Taylor
Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of […]
The Value of Christian Biography
posted by Joel Taylor
David Leach: About 35 years ago as I began to build a theological library I had a primary focus on commentaries and "hard theology." By "hard theology" I mean solid and more substantial works as opposed to the various sorts of "pop" Christian books. After 1976 when I came to a sovereign grace soteriology, I […]
Swimsuits & The Undressing of America
posted by Joel Taylor
[ The following are excerpts from a short, 29 page work by Jeff Pollard (link at end of article). I would encourage every woman – young and older – to read this important work, and pass it along to others! – JT ] Modesty is not first an issue of clothing. It is primarily an […]
Two Reasons to Abandon ‘Holy’ Hip-Hop
posted by Joel Taylor
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh. For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please. – Galatians 5:16, […]
On Dressing Well
posted by Joel Taylor
By Matthew Chancey Clothes are meant to do more than cover nudity. Clothes are your resume’ on a walking billboard. They communicate your worldview. If you dress like a stiff, the faith you communicate is a rigid and legalistic one. If you dress like a slob, the faith you communicate is Gnosticism of a different […]
Training in Righteousness
posted by Joel Taylor
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work. – 2 Timothy 3:16, 17 The teacher must train his people. Every Christian needs to be disciplined, so that he may prosper […]
Every Christian A Saint
posted by Joel Taylor
The Martyn Lloyd-Jones’ Recording trust is presenting a series of Dr. Jones sermons on the Letter to the Ephesians, one sermon per week. MLJ4001 The Mystery of God Ephesians 1:1 – preached on Sunday 3rd October 1954. … The most sublime and most majestic statement of the Gospel; … a general view of the letter; […]
How Christian Hedonism Uniquely Denies the Necessity of the New Birth
posted by Joel Taylor
In a recent post, I mentioned theological reductionism. Christian hedonism is such an example. It basically reduces biblical teaching for the Christian to the pursuit of joy, which is self-centered and, at the very least, devalues the Biblical imperatives of Christian instruction regarding our training in righteousness. It is a gelded theology. Dr. Piper is […]
Michael Horton, Polio, Two Kingdoms and Your Favorite Food
posted by Joel Taylor
The proposition: “Do we really need Christian pop music for our entertainment or Christian cookbooks? Is there really a Christian method of making stir-fry?” (Michael Horton, Where in the World,196) The answer: What makes anti-vaccination movements possible? Forgetfulness. Amnesia. The blessing of a vaccine can be its curse. It enables its beneficiaries to take their […]
Christmas Books
posted by Joel Taylor
If you know me, you know I love books. Old ones. Ones written by dead guys…and a very, very, very few live ones. But…if you were going to recommend a book, as a gift, to one that you loved for (not necessarily about) Christmas, what would it be? You tell us your recommendation(s), and we’ll […]
The Race
posted by Joel Taylor
Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies […]
Preaching the Gospel to Yourself
posted by Joel Taylor
Jay Adams Doubtless, this idea seems strange to many Christians today, yet it is the rage in some circles. Such ideas as going deeper into the Gospel and that the Gospel is the means of sanctification, all bundled up together with a half dozen other such statements can be found—not in some backward-thinking, offbeat fundamentalist […]
Running the Race Without Disgrace
posted by Joel Taylor
Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy […]