In 1874, a preacher and medical doctor named T.W. Brents wrote a 500-page book entitled The Gospel Plan of Salvation. It would be difficult to overestimate its influence. It is an exhaustive and decisive rebuttal of Calvinism. It was not new doctrine, but it codified The Five Steps (hereafter TFS) as the best way to… Read More »
In Defense Of The Five Steps; Part I
One of my favorite sermons is entitled The Five Steps Is Not The Gospel. I am fond of it because I believe it is important to focus on God’s grace extended to me through the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ the Son of God. “The Five Steps” (hereafter TFS) are often referred to… Read More »
May God’s Will Be Done
“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.”-Job 42:2 Did you marry the person you thought you would when you were 13-years old? How many of us are working the same job we had in high school? Did my favorite football team1 or basketball team win… Read More »
Wonder And Gratitude
“As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.”-Ecclesiastes 11:5 Americans celebrate an annual holiday of Thanksgiving on the final Thursday of November. Early European settlers gathered to thank God… Read More »
Always To Pray, And Not To Faint
“ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts…must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;”-James 1:6-7 The word of God has quite a bit to say about prayer. The title to this article comes from an inspired description of Jesus’ parable concerning a tenacious widow who pesters a judge… Read More »
The Creation, Flood, and Red Sea
For some, the accounts of God’s miracles are a barrier to faith. In reality, they are bedrocks of true belief. The problem people run into is not a lack of faith but a lack of imagination. How could those stories be real?!?! To quote Jesus, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things… Read More »