There are plenty of reasons why people leave churches. Some are legitimate and others are not. In this short series, I want to focus on illegitimate reasons why people leave churches. Here is one: “I don’t feel connected.” This can…
Augustus Toplady once said that “it is not necessary to be timid in order to be meek.” And I guess that must be right, glancing at the inspired examples in Galatians 5:12 or Matthew 23:1-33. It needs to be seen…
The flood waters having receded, and Noah and family having disembarked from the ark, it was back to business as usual on earth in a number of discernable ways. Thus we see, firstly, the restitution of the creation ordinance of…
In my book <a href=”https://www.latimertrust.org/index.php/publications/books-and-compilations/24-tpg”><em>The True Profession of the Gospel</em></a>, I criticise Augustus Montague Toplady for his occasionally barbed and acerbic responses to John Wesley, as not being in keeping with 2 Timothy 2:22-26. I do the same with <a…
Did Christ descend into hell? With this question, as with so many others, much depends upon what one means by the words–in this case, much depends on the meaning of all three words, “descended,” “into,” and “hell.” The question is…
Would you allow me to draw your attention to a book? It is my father’s work, and concerns a man that you may not know, a seventeenth century Baptist called Benjamin Keach. Keach was one of the movers and shakers…
In my former forays into the dangerous territory of saying anything negative about the great and famous John Wesley, I foolishly mentioned his unusually positive views of the arch-heretic Pelagius (“Who was Pelagius? By all I can pick up from…
In my experience, 8 out of 10 seminary students and graduates prefer Koine Greek to biblical Hebrew. Why? Perhaps reading from right to left is a bit disorienting? Maybe some of the Hebrew letters resemble each other too closely? Perchance…
I finally got out to view the movie “Interstellar,” which my sons and I had been wanting to see all season. We are all fans of Christopher Nolan, particularly because of the way he uses his art to make important…
How many of our modern hymns speak of Christ’s wrath and judgment? If I’m not mistaken, “Agnus Dei” (Michael W. Smith) derives its language from Revelation 19. How many consider the wrath of the Lamb, described in that chapter, when…
