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The Necessity of Factions in the Church

by | Sep 6, 2008 | Bible, Church, Theology

Edit, 1/22/2011: I have been going back through some old blog posts, and I wanted to write that I do not find this blog post persuasive at all any more. I want to leave it here, but the more I read this, the more I hear Paul’s words dripping with sarcasm, not...

Come Out, and Be Separate

by | May 10, 2008 | Bible, Books, Church, Theology

One of the ongoing struggles of evangelicals is to rid themselves of fundamentalist notions of “being separate” from the world. In the past, especially in the wake of public, humiliating losses in the public square on the issue of creationism (e.g., the...

Preaching and Preachers

by | May 7, 2008 | Bible, Church, Preaching, Theology, Worship

Is it a good thing that most churches have generally only one man preaching? Obviously, there are some churches that only have one pastor trained to preach, and most churches that generally only utilize one man have other preachers once every 4-6 weeks (on average)....

An Extremely Perceptive Baptist

by | Feb 15, 2007 | Books, Church, Theology

I am writing a paper for my church history class that will contrast sacramental theology in the Westminster Confession of Faith and one of the Baptist confessions–probably the Baptist Faith and Message of 1925. In my research, I just came across an excellent...

Modern Apostles

by | Feb 7, 2007 | Bible, Church, Theology

For whatever reason, I have always been disinclined to consider anyone living today as an “apostle” in the biblical sense. I suppose my main concern lies in the Catholic idea that every pope has apostolic authority, equal to Jesus’ twelve disciples...

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