God, revealing Himself through Scripture, puts a holy fear in my heart. It is a reverence that makes me bow my head, sometimes cry, out of love for His grace shown to me, and yet, still knowing He is all-powerful, all knowing, omni-everything. I love Him, and fear Him. My Lord is both my greatest […]
Tag Archives: God
Declared Righteous
posted by Joel Taylor
One exercise I have always found helpful when doing a word study, is to find other similar passages and substitute the words meaning for the word itself. Both in biblical and non-biblical literature, the phrase ‘to justify’, and the terms justification and even acquit, whether in Scripture or in the (so-called) secular world, means the […]
6 Things You Need to Understand on ‘being led by the Spirit’
posted by Joel Taylor
You are not one of the Apostles of Scripture. Neither am I. The prophets and apostles were many times led by God by real, dramatic manifestations of Himself, by visions, etc. You and I are not, ever. The complete instructions for the Church – for guidance and growth – God has written down. God speaks […]
Is the Bible Sufficient, or Do We Need New Revelation?
posted by Joel Taylor
Thomas Williamson One of the unfinished items of business for modern theology is the question of the Sufficiency of Scripture. Is the revelation we have in the 66 canonical books of the Old and New Testaments enough for us to rely on for guidance in matters of faith and practice, or do we need new […]
Tim Keller’s Heterodox Views of God & Christianity
posted by Joel Taylor
In his book, The Reason for God (quite a title!) Tim Keller espouses some, shall we say, heterodox thinking in regards to the nature and character of God as well as some pretty strange thinking of Christianity. I won’t cite everything that gave me the heebies, but here are a few. For example, Keller claims: […]
Q&A: Thy Will Be Done
posted by Joel Taylor
This particular question submitted by a reader was in response to two posts: First, the post dealing with John MacArthur’s claim of the existence of “an interim kingdom” and brazen denial that Jesus Christ currently exercises His full, Divine will over the earth. See Daniel 4:35 for God’s refutation of such thinking. Secondly, the post […]
6 Things That Always Happen When God is Rejected By A Nation
posted by Joel Taylor
Anytime a people choose a government or a wicked man as king or president, God declares the consequences: An anti-Biblical military conscription will be instituted or enforced. There will be compulsory labor battalions conscripted for state service. The conscription will be of young men and women, and animals as well. The state will expropriate property, […]
The Perpetuity of God’s Law
posted by Joel Taylor
I should like to say to any brother who thinks that God has put us under an altered rule: “Which particular part of the law is it that God has relaxed?” Which precept do you feel free to break? – C.H. Spurgeon The law of God is no more than God might most righteously ask […]
The Pursuit of Blessedness
posted by Joel Taylor
The blessedness which is thus set before us we must aim at, but we must not think to obtain it without earnest effort… The way of perfect obedience is not learned in a day; there must be precept upon precept, line upon line, and after efforts long enough to be compared with the 176 verses […]
He’s not finished with you.
posted by Joel Taylor
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. – Philippians 1:6 If you are now, or in a recent time in your life, at a point when you thought God was through using you, just finished, please […]
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James White: Just Being Silly
posted by Joel Taylor
Given the heresies of dispensationalism led, at least these days, by John MacArthur, you tell me dear reader: who’s being silly? Or should I say, turning a blind eye? Certainly not I. Heresy is God’s Word plus something else. And heresy is never more subtle, or dangerous, than when mixed with God’s truth. The sad […]
No Temporal Blessings for the Unregenerate
posted by Joel Taylor
For the devious are an abomination to the Lord; But He is intimate with the upright. The curse of the Lord is on the house of the wicked, But He blesses the dwelling of the righteous. Though He scoffs at the scoffers, Yet He gives grace to the afflicted. The wise will inherit honor, But […]
Encouragement
posted by Joel Taylor
C.H. Spurgeon: “God Himself, at one time, seemed to be against us: the ten great cannon of His Law were turned against our walls; all heaven and earth mustered for battle; God Himself was against us, at least, so conscience reported from her look-out. But, now, at this moment, having believed in Jesus Christ, we […]
From Victory to Victory
posted by Joel Taylor
What do you need that God has not provided, and will not provide? And what has God provided, that you do not need—even the temptations? “Ignorance of the providence of God is the cause of all impatience.” If we can just keep before our eyes, in our present knowledge, this truth—that God our Father provides […]
He Calls Us Friends
posted by Joel Taylor
Jesus has called me His friend. I don’t think I’ll ever get over that. Here’s a short snippet from a recent sermon of mine. No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard […]
The Abiding Impression of God’s Holiness
posted by Joel Taylor
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he […]
Why Replacement Theology is Silly
posted by Joel Taylor
To me, the very least of all saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ, and to bring to light what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God who created all things; so that the manifold wisdom of God might now […]
John Calvin, the Idol
posted by Joel Taylor
In the reformed community, John Calvin is held in high esteem, maybe too high. In the minds of many young, reformed youth, John Calvin is also idolized; as sincerely and as much as the golden calf of Israel or the stone-carved gods of the Canaanites; both idolatrous acts. The fact is, John Calvin is not […]
Love. What Do You Do With That?
posted by Joel Taylor
“Jesus walked with common men, but there was nothing common about His words. He upset judicial systems when He said "Love those that hate you. He upset patterns of religion by declaring that real temples of worship were in the hearts of believers. He refused to discuss laws and rules governing peoples actions but zeroed […]
No Boundaries
posted by Joel Taylor
A dictionary defines the word boundaries as the following: The line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something A line determining the limits of an area The greatest possible degree of something Now, consider this: But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such […]
