Skip Cartin at Western Avenue Baptist Church has been preaching through Romans over the past year. This image came to mind recently: God is like a circle. I know God has been represented as a circle because the line of ...

The Gospel of Sola Fide by Daniel Chew During the time of the Reformation, the true Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ was been re-discovered — the Gospel that our salvation is by grace alone through faith alone. As oppos...

1 Corinthians 12:12-27For even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, w...

Often when discussing Calvinism with my Reformed friends, I hear them use language like “God allowed/permitted sin.” This kind of rhetoric seems strange, though, coming from a group of people who believe, as the Westmi...

"Calvinists don't believe in Free Will." "Arminians don't believe God is Sovereign" "Open Theists deny God's omniscience." These three statements are patently false. While I have my own views, I cringe when I here fa...

There’s too much wax on this apple. As if by loading it up with a smooth, clear, relatively unnoticeable cover, we can pretend we'll not get bruised when falling off this tree – or being picked off more likely. But the...

-Hell does not occur within the Pauline Corpus. In other words, Paul’s gospel is not proclaimed with the threatening backdrop of Hell looming over his hearers. It is the kindness of God that leads to repentance. The clos...

It occurs to me that the people widely regarded as leaders have two things in common. First, they tout the strongest opinions. Second, they have a charisma that inspires others to confidence in their decisions. People a...

Forgive and forget. The phrase always resounds of bumper sticker Christianity to me. Like when my guitar gets played too much the sound of this phrase just never seems to hit my ears at the right pitch – one of the strings must be out of tune, or more likely broken. ...

Yesterday was difficult.  Exhausting weekend.  Like I told a coworker/friend, the day might have been just fine, but it was a bad me-day.  Do you believe God saves us?  I mean, not just in the soteriological sense....