Category: Church Blog
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Gadaffy the New Antichrist?
Recent events in the Middle East, however, has some of the most popular “prophets” thinking about Libya’s Moamar Gadaffy as the newest candidate. But what proof do they have?
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“Who Sent the Earthquake and the Tsunami?”
“The eagle has landed!” Russel’s own words of joy. We praise God that Donna and the four boys have landed at Los Angeles International! It was a joy to see Donna and her four boys off at NAIA at 4 am yesterday for their 8 am flight to Narita Airport, and then on to their…
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“The Marcions Have Landed!”
“Often nothing seems to earn the scorn and derision of others more than the suggestion that more psalms should be sung in worship.”—Carl Trueman I imagine that many first-time visitors to our church who come from mainstream evangelical backgrounds leave after the service with these impressions: “Strange! It felt like a Roman Catholic service, with…
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God’s Love: “A Still More Excellent Way”
1 Corinthians 13 has nothing to do with sentimental love, romance, and courtship. Instead, it contains a rebuke from Paul against the Corinthians’ various violations of God’s directives for loving God and neighbor.
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Why Learn the Biblical Languages?
“It enables you to have a conversation with somebody from thousands of years ago [if] you understand the languages in which they were speaking, or in this case, in which the Scriptures were written.”—Dr. Bryan Estelle, Associate Professor of Old Testament, Westminster Seminary in California
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Which of the Ten Commandments Did Adam Break?
When Adam ate of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, which of the Decalogue did he break?
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Reformed: More Than the 5 Points of Jesus and the Apostles
So many people have weighed in the issue of what is Reformed Christianity, or what’s a Reformed church, or who’s Reformed. About four years ago, John MacArthur delivered a scathing attack on Reformed amillennialism entitled, “Why Every Self-Respecting Calvinist is a Premillennialist.” Worse, his rant was a bad misrepresentation of amillennialism in a conference where…
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a Generous Heterodoxy (Or Why My Orthodoxy is Confessionally and Creedally Stingy)
With all of these “generous heterodoxy,†Kevin DeYoung argue that McLaren’s and other emergents’ smorgasbord Christianity is nothing else than “old fashioned liberalism… dressed up for the 21st century.†More than that, his “generous heterodoxy†is in reality, “super-generous heresy.â€
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Was Daniel a Vegan?
Rick Warren will kick off The Daniel Plan, a 52-week fitness program at Saddleback Church, this coming weekend. Would his text for promoting this program be Daniel 1:8-15, where we read about young Daniel and his three friends declining to eat the king’s sumptuous meals. Pastor Warren grounds his diet plan on his health and…
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An Evangelical Pilgrim’s Progress
One of our visitors poured out her heart to me in an email, and with her consent, I’m reproducing it here with a few edits: Having to come back to Manila was painful, not least because I didn’t know any church that didn’t see the gospel as only for unbelievers or where Jesus’ death for…