Culture

Video: Joseph Hellerman, “When the Church Was a Family” (On the Corporate Orientation of NT Culture)

February 7, 2025 , SEA , Comment Closed

The video below may also be accessed on YouTube at https://youtu.be/n3pPtigcL9I. While not focused on Arminian/Calvinist issues, we include this lecture on our sight because it elucidates the corporate/collectivist perspective of the culture of the…

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Richard Coords, “Church Splits”

April 19, 2021 , Martin Glynn , Comment Closed

Church Splits occur when a significant portion of a church leaves to form a separate church. Calvinism is a common cause of such splits. It usually occurs when a new pastor is hired and conceals…

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Michael Brown, “Reflecting on the Death of a Progressive Christian”

May 7, 2019 , Martin Glynn , Comment Closed

It is easy for us to get caught up in theological debates. Sometimes we need to take a step back, and simply pray for our opponents, and love them. Dr. Michael Brown’s comments here are…

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Movie Review: Breakthrough – 4 Stars Inspiring

April 24, 2019 , drwayman , Comment Closed

The first question both Christians and non-Christians alike ask when someone claims a miracle is: Has it been verified? If it is a healing that is claimed, as happened in Breakthrough, then what do the…

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Creeds: An Imperative by Scot McKnight

September 19, 2017 , Martin Glynn , Comment Closed

Some pastors, preachers, professors, and parishioners will announce they have “no creed but the Bible.” Last year’s very substantive discussion/debate about the sub-orthodoxy of eternal subordinationists, like Wayne Grudem, Bruce Ware, Owen Strachan and others,…

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Marks of the Loss of First Love

March 8, 2017 , drwayman , Comment Closed

“Uncle Buddy” Robinson was a popular evangelist in the early Church of the Nazarene. He claimed to have preached 32,176 sermons and won 200,000 converts. His preaching style was known for it’s simplicity, yet is…

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Roger Olson, “An Arminian-Anabaptist Response to ‘A Church for Exiles’ by Carl R. Trueman”

October 3, 2014 , SEA , Comment Closed

The August, 2014 issue of the journal First Things (online) contains an article by Westminster Theological Seminary church history professor Carl R. Trueman entitled “A Church for Exiles: Why Reformed Christianity Provides the Best Basis…

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