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

In response to the question, “God is perfect; explain?” Ravi Zacharias once answered: “God is the only being in existence whose reason for existence is within Himself.” I love this!          There’s a droll tension in my profession where each functional area or branch, in its own espirit de corps, boasts of its inherent importance over every other. It’s as old as the Army itself. The infantryman b...  Read More

“Is using the term orthodox a correct way to describe reformed soteriology? I recently had a person who is not a professing Christian refer to herself as orthodox. I have only heard of the eastern orthodox churches, and upon looking up the term orthodox came across the Oriental Orthodox Church, Orthodox Presbyterian and Orthodox Judaism. I have used the term orthodox assuming that its meaning was ...  Read More

Every Carnal Man’s PhD[Download here]“Those who fashion a graven image are all of them futile, and their precious things are of no profit; even their own witnesses fail to see or know, so that they will be put to shame…the craftsmen themselves are mere men…The man shapes iron into a cutting tool and does his work over the coals, fashioning it with hammers and working it with his strong arm…He plan...  Read More