DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA!    To borrow a phrase, all the talk about the death of the Emerging Church aka Emergent Church, now morphing into Emergence Christianity (EC), de-formation of the Christian faith is a bit of an exaggeration; as illustrated by the 2008 quote from Empress of EC Phyllis Tickle: The Reformation is over now. It has been […]

Our Lord’s strong language about the false teachers of the Jews ends here. Those who think that unsound ministers ought never to be exposed and held up to notice, and men ought never to be warned against them, would do well to study this passage. No class of character throughout our Lord’s ministry seems to […]

Luther seldom mentions homosexual behavior. But when he does, his evaluation is always negative. For example, Luther identifies the sin of Sodom with homosexuality. Commenting on Genesis 19:4-5, he writes “I for my part do not enjoy dealing with this passage, because so far the ears of the Germans are innocent of and uncontaminated by […]

A little plain-speaking would do a world of good just now. These gentlemen desire to be let alone. They want no noise raised. Of course thieves hate watchdogs, and love darkness. It is time that somebody should spring his rattle, and call attention to the way in which God is being robbed of his glory, […]

[concerning John 10: 1 — “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber.”] The sentence before us is a powerful and humbling one. That it condemns the Jewish teachers of our […]

The word homosexual is derived from two Greek words. The first word denotes the active role of sexuality and the second word denotes the passive role of sexuality. Thus, the word homosexuality confronts that active and the passive side of this sin. A few things need to be said about homosexuality. First, it is a […]

6. I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: [Paul] commences by administering a rebuke, though a somewhat milder one than they deserved; but his greatest severity of language is directed, as we shall see, against the false apostles. He charges them […]

In all unbelief there are these two things–a good opinion of one’s self and a bad opinion of God. Man’s good opinion of himself makes him think it quite possible to win God’s favor by his own religious performances; and his bad opinion of God makes him unwilling and afraid to put his case wholly […]

I see the spirit of compromise concerning holiness and sin, truth and error, far too prevalent. The spirit of compromise comes not of the Spirit of God, but of the spirit of the world. It is always wisest and best to exhibit clear decision upon fundamental points; we must draw the line distinctly, and then […]

The period in which we now live may well go down in history as the Erotic Age. Sex love has been elevated into a cult. Eros has more worshipers among civilized men today than any other god. For millions the erotic has completely displaced the spiritual…. Now if this god would let us Christians alone […]