• The Free Offer of the Gospel, Common Grace, and Pragmatic Church Growth: Part 2

    Updated: 2025-01-14 14:14:00
     . . . By 1936 the signers of the Auburn Affirmation showed that they had captured the church by reorganizing Princeton Seminary and placing one of the signers on its governing board, by electing one of their number Moderator of the General Assembly [of the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America], and, what was decisive, by excommunicating those ministers who had

  • The Free Offer of the Gospel, Common Grace, and Pragmatic Church Growth: Part 1

    Updated: 2025-01-13 14:03:00
    “The question very really concerns the attitude of God with respect to the reprobate. We may limit the controversy to this question: what must the preacher of the gospel say of God’s intention with respect to the reprobate? And these, too, may be called by different names, such as: the impenitent, the wicked, the unbelievers, etc., etc.” The answer to this question defines the difference

  • A Short-Term Mission Trip to Nicaragua: Conclusion

    Updated: 2024-12-17 14:11:00
     he principle of the greatest good for the greatest number is one by which dictators can justify their cruelty. When the communists starved to death millions of Ukrainians, massacred thousands of Polish officers, murdered possibly twenty million Chinese, and slaughtered the Tibetans, they could justify themselves on the ground that the pleasure of future generations of communists would

  • A Short-Term Mission Trip to Nicaragua: Part Three

    Updated: 2024-12-16 13:08:00
     The critique of secular views continues to ethics. Here too, Clark contends, secular philosophy fails. He briefly dispatches Kantianism before addressing utilitarianism. As he has written elsewhere, a major problem is that the calculations required by utilitarianism are impossible. The ‘still greater difficulty’ in calculating the greatest good of the greatest number is establishing the

  • A Short-Term Mission Trip to Nicaragua: Part Two

    Updated: 2024-12-14 13:44:00
     The first and basic point in a Christian philosophy of education, or a Christian philosophy of anything, is Biblical authority. Just as Platonism is defined by what Plato wrote, and not by the decadent skeptical Academy of later years, so the ultimate definition of Christianit not the decadent confusion of the liberal churches, not the pronouncements of the Pope, not the inconsistent

  • A Short-Term Mission Trip to Nicaragua: Part One

    Updated: 2024-12-13 13:50:00
     Some suggest that North American Pentecostalism represents an anti-cultural posture arising from an experience of deprivation or marginalization from mainstream culture.1 One response to cultural marginalization is the adoption of conservative politics and the materialistic values of consumer culture. A sense of disenfranchisement often leads to withdrawal from society or to a

  • My YouTube Channel: Reasonable Christian

    Updated: 2024-12-10 14:42:00
    The Bible and the Bible alone is the word of God. 2 Timothy 3:16I'm not an expert in making and uploading videos. However, this is my first video uploaded to the Reasonable Christian channel in YouTube: Reasonable Christian Apologetics channel.

  • Is the Doctrine of Common Grace Biblical or Confessional?

    Updated: 2024-12-02 14:34:00
     s the Doctrine of Common Grace Biblical or Confessional?   “To the reprobate the preaching of the gospel is no favor because as it increases their knowledge, it increases their responsibility and condemnation. Better if they had never heard the gospel. One can reply, nonetheless, that in some cases the preaching of the gospel may restrain an evil man from some of his evil ways.

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