Public Service Announcement: “Joy to the World” is a Christmas song. It is a song celebrating the first advent of Christ and not his future return. Don’t get me wrong, I’m for singing it all year round, but I think it is especially appropriate to sing at Christmas. To...
Every year at Christmas many Christians sing a particular carol that has a theology long lost to the cultural pessimism of the twentieth century. Isaac Watt’s Joy to The World has a message of a hope that many Christians don’t even realize is there. Consider the third...
In the wake of the Gary Demar dust-up, kerfuffle, debacle, Demar-Gate, whatever you want to call it… let’s settle some things. A lot of terms are being bandied about and too often without precision. When dealing with matters of heresy, precision is important. 1....
There are a variety of viewpoints that are often raised regarding the following passage from Acts chapter 1 related to “the restoration of Israel”: [6] So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to...
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. Hebrews 12:22a I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. John 17:5 One of the biggest hurdles for Christians as they...
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is laid up for the righteous.”Proverbs 13:22 “A sluggard’s appetite is never filled, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.” Proverbs 13:4 When it comes to the topic of...
