COVID has not shut the doors of our sanctuary since early 2020, but it has shut the doors of our kitchen. After the benediction and after-service catch-ups, the saints will by-and-large return home to sup with their families, while the hungry remnant plays hot-potato until someone gets stuck with choosing the restaurant. But after a... Continue Reading →
A Systematic Defense for the Textus Receptus
Disclaimer: The Particular Baptist is evenly split on the issue of the Textus Receptus, with the hosts of the podcast having a debate on the subject here. As such, the following post does not represent the views of the blog as a whole. You can also read Dan and Sean's articles here and here, respectively.... Continue Reading →
How Much Devil Should You Study?
Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple. For your obedience is... Continue Reading →
Leighton’s Ministry of Selfishness
In a twist that would make M. Night Shyamalan's head spin, Leighton Flowers recently released an hour-plus long video on ... Calvinism! In his latest installment of Quantity over Quality, Leighton joins his friend, Eric Kemp, in trying to smoke out the Hyper-Calvinist of John Piper's doctrine by setting a stadium's worth of strawmen on... Continue Reading →
THE TRINITY IN ETERNITY AND CREATION: How the Relations are Magnified in Redemptive History
In my last post, I dealt with the distinctions of the Persons within the Godhead, and explained how these eternal distinctions can exist in One and the same Being. In it, we saw that the orthodox, biblical view of the Trinity is that the Persons are distinguished only by their relative properties, and not by... Continue Reading →
Errors About the Trinity: A Classical Defense
There is perhaps no doctrine more frequently misunderstood or more difficult to comprehend than the doctrine of the Trinity. A large amount of our errors stem from our refusal to acknowledge that we cannot fully grasp it, and that the inner-workings of our almighty, infinite God are far beyond the capacity of even the best... Continue Reading →
Against Postmillennialism’s Eschatological Feminism
Author's Note (11/25/23): This early post of mine has been getting some attention again. Revisiting it, I continue to stand by its content. However, I do worry that some parts of it could be misunderstood as teaching that we should disparage all our earthy duties altogether, so I want to be crystal clear that I'm... Continue Reading →
THE PERSPICUITY OF SCRIPTURE: An Antidote to Rome’s Epistemological Sophistry
Have you heard this argument before? "Sure, the Bible may be infallible, but are you infallible? If you're not infallible, how do you know your interpretation of the Bible is correct? An infallible Bible isn't helpful without an infallible interpreter, and therefore we need the infallible interpretation of [insert authority here]!" In most cases, the... Continue Reading →
JESUS: That Sweet Name Above All Names
My heart is inditing a good matter... my tongue is the pen of a ready writer (Psalm 45:1). In a world full of darkness, error, and confusion, the Christian seems to constantly be engaged in a war of innumerable fronts. Satan's legions are wide and varied, dawning many different uniforms under many different generals, but... Continue Reading →
Is the Constitution the “Powers that Be” of Romans 13? COVID-19 and Assembling for the Lord’s Day
Retraction: The author still stands with the substance of this post, but has developed in his thinking on this topic throughout the pandemic. The end of this post implies that it is acceptable for a church to treat the government's mandates as a "providential hindrance" so long as the mandates only continue for a short... Continue Reading →
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