If people searched the Scriptures, we should find them come together in union;…[and end] the creation of various opinions and sects, which ought not to be, and would not be if all stood fast by the standard of inspired truth. If the Bible were but read and prayed over, many errors would die a speedy […]

[There’s a] terrible blight of spiritual poverty in the [Visible] Church. It must be admitted that modernist Evangelicalism, with all its positive thinking, 12-steps-to-this and 7-steps-to-that programs, is spiritually bankrupt and the thirst for true spiritual reality has swept many professing Evangelicals into the contemplative camp in search of spiritual satisfaction yet all they receive […]

The following is from the introduction to a teaching by Thomas Merton called What Is Contemplation? On page 17 of the Renovare book Spiritual Classics edited by Richard Foster and Emilie Griffin we read: Thomas Merton has perhaps done more than any other twentieth-century figure to make the life of prayer widely known and understood… During his […]

Luther and Calvin, Knox and Latimer did not think: We have so much in common with the Romanists, we need to make common cause with them in opposing humanism and Islam. The Reformers did not say: We can be co-belligerents with Rome, since we agree on God, Jesus Christ, abortion, and so many other things. […]

If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier […]

Karl Barth denied verbal inspiration though he accepted plenary in that [the Bible’s] all inspired; but, you have the right to let it speak to you and whatever speaks to you [then becomes] the Word of God. And he was wrong. Dr. Walter Martin

The culture does not annul the Law of God; God’s Law stands whether the culture stands or not. What you are getting from the Cult of Liberalism is what is known as moral relativism. Do you understand that; moral relativism, which means you get away with whatever you think in your heart you can get away […]

  DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA Emergents, because they are postmodern, believe in paradox; or more correctly, they recognize the ubiquity of paradox and are not afraid of it. Instead, they see in its operative presence the tension where vitality lives. To make that point, an emergent will quite often offer the most simplistic of proof […]

DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA Orthonomy may be defined then as a kind of “correct harmoniousness” or beauty. In effect, when it is used as here [in regard to Sola Scriptura], it means the employment of aesthetic or harmonic purity as a tool for discerning truth—and therefore the intent and authority—of anything, be that thing doctrine or […]

I read the Bible every day of my life. It is the most important book in my life. But I think it’s important that we understand it… I’m not a biblical “literalist,” and if we define biblical “fundamentalism” to be literal belief in every word of the Scripture being without error, I would say I’m […]