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The Real Strange Fire: Lordship Salvation Pt. 5

This is the fifth installment of my analysis of the online document explaining the doctrine of “Lordship Salvation“. I am continuing through the initial matter in the article to lay a good foundation. Let’s look at the next section of the article: Present-day evangelicalism, by and large, ignores these warnings. The prevailing view of what […]

The Real Strange Fire: Lordship Salvation Pt. 4

This is the fourth installment of my analysis of the online document explaining the doctrine of “Lordship Salvation“. I am continuing very slowly through the initial matter in the article to lay a good foundation. Let’s look at the article again: The gospel that Jesus proclaimed was a call to discipleship, a call to follow […]

The Real Strange Fire: Lordship Salvation Pt. 3

This is the third installment of my analysis of the online document explaining the doctrine of “Lordship Salvation“. I am continuing very slowly through the initial matter in the article to lay a good foundation. Let’s look at the article again: The gospel that Jesus proclaimed was a call to discipleship, a call to follow […]

The Real Strange Fire: Lordship Salvation (Pt. 2)

This is the second installment of my analysis of the online document explaining the doctrine of “Lordship Salvation“. I am moving very slowly through the initial matter in the article to lay a good foundation of understanding. Today we tackle the meaning of the idea of “liberation”. A Gospel of “liberation”, confrontation, and condemnation? Let’s […]

The Real Strange Fire: Lordship Salvation

I’m launching a small project to go through the curiously named “Grace to You” site’s document explaining “Lordship Salvation“, to search out a truthful and biblical evaluation of the doctrine. As any regular readers know, I am strongly biased towards a strong grace-centered cross-centered gospel message, so I can’t claim to have complete objectivity. However, […]

Chosen Before the Foundation of the World

He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love 5 He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He […]

MacArthur’s Strange Fire

The Christian blogosphere is ablaze over John MacArthur’s “Strange Fire” conference. I wanted to weigh in on John MacArthur and the whole issue. In general, I like to dialog about the charismatic movement about as much as I like to dialog about politics or the latest trends in plumbing. It is such a beaten up […]

The “Seared” Conscience

One of my core ideas is that the conscience is a universal and supernatural presence that constantly dictates relevant law to us whether we want to hear it at the time or not. We are really such complex creatures! Sometimes I get the comment when talking about this that there are people who don’t have […]