Imperishable Inheritance

When I first became a believer I made the mis­take of includ­ing every the­o­log­i­cal con­vic­tion in my “gospel,” but as Paul says clearly to the Gala­tians: “I am amazed that you are so quickly desert­ing Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a dif­fer­ent gospel; which is really not another; only there are some who are dis­turb­ing you and want to dis­tort the gospel of Christ” (Gal 1:6–7). It was clear to Paul that the Gospel was sim­ple, and if (read more...)

I find that there is a sub-section of Chris­tians, par­tic­u­larly reformed Chris­tians, that love to blast the emerg­ing church move­ment; but most of the time they don’t even know the wide array of opin­ions on the issue and the ben­e­fits of it. I recently lis­tened to a series of ser­mons where a reformed bap­tist pas­tor does acknowl­edge good things in his cri­tique. The emerg­ing move­ment is not above crit­i­cism from the Scrip­tures, but we must be sure to rec­og­nize pos­i­tive con­tri­bu­tions it (read more...)

“If we sub­mit every­thing to rea­son, our reli­gion will have no mys­te­ri­ous and super­nat­ural ele­ment. If we offend the prin­ci­ples of rea­son, our reli­gion will be absurd and ridicu­lous. All our rea­son­ing reduces itself to yield­ing to feel­ing. But fancy is like, though con­trary to, feel­ing, so that we can­not dis­tin­guish between con­traries. One per­son says that my feel­ing is fancy, another that his fancy is feel­ing. We should have a rule. Rea­son offers itself; but it is pli­able in every (read more...)