Regeneration is another word for the new birth. I believe that regeneration is best described in John 3:8 when Jesus says that it’s like the wind. “The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”           There are three analogies drawn for us in Scripture that encapsulate the or...  Read More

     Love is the driving force and guiding light in the Christian religion. Without it, every doctrine, every effort and every conviction becomes absurd. There are many among us, either by action or omission, who pervert love by declaring it free to accept everything the world wishes, but this isn’t love. We love only when we love through the Bible. Love is truth, and has its parameters. A lying l...  Read More

     On 8 May Stacey W. asked:      “Sitting up researching the other night I came across a blog talking about "dominionism". The claim made by the blogger is that the new Calvinism and the emergent movement is really "dominionism." He specifically named John Piper as being part of the Catholic infiltrated Lausanne movement and apparently the new reformation is to move the church back to its catho...  Read More

    Truth is necessary for salvation. A man can no more believe in a Jesus in whom he has not heard (Romans 10:14) than he can be saved by a false one, Matthew 24:5. Truth is found in all saved people. It is propositional truth that serves as the baseline for the right to then test the faith in any heart by its affections. Truth is the root; willing obedience is the fruit, John 14:15. Truth itself...  Read More

  Jesus prayed for His church. He came to redeem for Himself a church from this world. In what we call His high priestly prayer He prayed: “…Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are,” John 17:11b. With the state of many churches today one might be given occasion to doubt the possibility of such a reality that the church could be one…and act l...  Read More

 Just before his execution, the Athenian philosopher Socrates (~470-399 B.C.) said, “All of the wisdom of this world is but a tiny raft upon which we must set sail when we leave this earth. If only there was a firmer foundation upon which to sail, perhaps some divine word.”What will you say just before your death?       It was said of the crowds who heard Jesus speak that, “They were astonished at...  Read More