Filters
Filters are useful and helpful things that typically demand little attention until there is a problem with them. When we ignore and neglect them, they impede the day-to-day operation of many…
Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it. The greatest heroes stand because it is right to do so, not because they believe they will walk away with…
Chapter Eleven: The History of the Organization of the Church “Through all the changes of the centuries, Christians can be confident that the survival of the church is not ultimately…
Abortion and the Problem of Personhood “Peel off all the Fourth of July, freedom-and-rights-talk niceties, and here we have the core of the pro-choice argument, 'You are not a human…
The book that we picked for this month was certainly a challenge! So that as many as possible will be able to participate in our coffee and cookies book discussion…
Though christian fortitude appears in withstanding and counteracting enemies without us; yet it much more appears in resisting and suppressing the enemies that are within us; because they are our…
Believer’s baptism is re-instituted by the Swiss Brethren in Zurich. It is almost universally agreed, even by those scholars whose churches do not practice it today, that baptism by immersion…
I once knew a man who firmly believed the following syllogism [step by step logical formula]: The Bible says the thoughts of the righteous are right: (Proverbs 12:5) I have…
A movement that cannot or will not draw boundaries, or that allows the modern cultural fear of exclusion to set its theological agenda, is doomed to lose its doctrinal identity.…
Chapter Seven: The Purpose of the Church “The church ultimately exists for the glory of God. Whether pursuing missions or evangelism; edifying one another through prayer and Bible study; encouraging…