A Topical Reference Guide for Biblical Child-Training
This book, For Instruction in Righteousness, will help you use the Bible every time you discipline your children! For Instruction in Righteousness is a topical Bible for parents. It includes hundreds of verses on over 50 areas of sin. But it is more … Read More
History of the English Calvinistic Baptists 1791-1892
For those who are interested in Baptist history, this is a "must read" volume by Robert Oliver! This book, History of the English Calvinistic Baptists, traces the story of the English Calvinistic Baptists from the death of John Gill in 1771 to … Read More
Studying the Book of Revelation
Without question, the book of Revelation is difficult to understand. Questions about the anti-Christ, the Millennium, and many others a are sharply disputed among Bible teachers today. But there is one question that seems to be overlooked in our … Read More
The Presence of God Qualifying Our Notions of Grammatical-Historical Interpretation
Genesis 3:15 as a Test Case* Abstract: Evangelical scholars have championed grammatical-historical interpretation as an objective means of sifting truth from error. This approach has value if we use it as one focus, but limitations if we use it … Read More
History of the English Calvinistic Baptists 1791-1892
For those who are interested in Baptist history, this is a "must read" volume by Robert Oliver! This book, History of the English Calvinistic Baptists, traces the story of the English Calvinistic Baptists from the death of John Gill in 1771 to … Read More
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A Topical Reference Guide for Biblical Child-Training
This book, For Instruction in Righteousness, will help you use the Bible every time you discipline your children! For Instruction in Righteousness is a topical Bible for parents. It includes hundreds of verses on over 50 areas of sin. But it is more than just a topical Bible! Each chapter includes the following listings: What the Bible says will, or should, happen to a person who sins in this way. Ideas for discipline that parallel these Biblical consequences. What the Bible likens a … [Read More...]
Earning an Online Degree in Bible or Other Studies
Recently I started doing research for a new project and was shocked to find out how many online Bible degree programs there were. There are dozens of Bible colleges and universities, conservative and liberal, that advertise online. In fact, one of the largest, Liberty University, must spend a fortune advertising their online college degrees because I see them on nearly every site I look at. Getting an online bible degree is actually a perfect solution for pastors who area already working … [Read More...]
Are you a Shorter Catechism Man?
I read this today on my daughter's Facebook page. I have no idea where it came from, but it's excellent: "...in a city of intense excitement of violent rioting and the streets were overran daily by a dangerous crowd, then one day he observed approaching him a man of a singular combined firmness of character; whose very demeanor inspired in him a measure of confidence. And so impressed was he with his baring amid thee surrounding up-roar all around him, but when he had passed, he turned to … [Read More...]
Dealing with Discrepancies in the Bible
Fifty Difficult Passages Explained by Jay Adams Many of us would agree with Peter when he says that parts of Paul’s letters are hard to understand! And there are difficulties and apparent discrepancies in other parts of the Bible too. On this matter of discrepancies, I remember reading something written by an old seventeenth-century Puritan named William Bridge. He said that harping on discrepancies shows a very bad heart, adding: “For a godly man, it should be as it was with Moses. When … [Read More...]
The Abuse of “Gospel Light” from The Evil of Evils by Jeremiah Burroughs
"I am persuaded that more men drop down to hell in our day under the abuse of gospel light than ever did in the gross darkness of popery...O how heavily does the wrath of God lie upon the professors of our age for the abuse of gospel light and they do not fee it, God's administration in this latter age of the world being more subtle and spiritual and, therefore, more undiscernible than in former ages! O how many have we nowadays who think they walk clearly in the midst of gospel light, … [Read More...]
