Posted in Christianity, Devotion, Devotional, God, Jesus Christ, Reformed, Theology, tagged Bible, Christ, Christianity, Devotion, Devotional, God, Jesus, Reformed, Theology on July 31, 2019| 20 Comments »
This is from my daily Greek exercise of sight reading a few weeks ago, courtesy of Vincent S Artale Jr.
Our text is from the Greek translation of Matthew 4:19. Here is my translation:
“καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖς· Δεῦτε ὀπίσω μου, καὶ ποιήσω ὑμᾶς ἁλιεῖς ἀνθρώπων. ”
And He *said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.”
Here are some observations:
Posted in Bible, Bible contradiction, bible difficulties, bible interpretation, christian apologetics, Christianity, Presuppositional Apologetics, presuppositionalism, Reformed, Theology, tagged Bible, Bible contradiction, bible difficulties, bible interpretation, christian apologetics, Christianity, presuppositional apologetics, presuppositionalism, Reformed, Theology on July 30, 2019| 57 Comments »
Having thus far refuted 106 alleged Bible contradictions listed by the Skeptic Annotated Bible I noticed over time a pattern of repeated mistakes made when there’s an assertion of a contradiction from the Bible.
In dealing with alleged Bible contradictions its always important to keep the definition of what’s a contradiction front and center in one’s mind before dealing with specific examples. As given in many of my posts here’s the definition of a contradiction: “A contradiction occurs when two or more claims conflict with one another so that they cannot simultaneously be true in the same sense and at the same time. To put it another way, a Bible contradiction exists when there are claims within the Bible that are mutually exclusive in the same sense and at the same time.”
Below I list eight types of frequent mistakes made by the skeptics so that readers can be equipped in identifying frequent errors made when someone claimed two or more passages of Scripture are contradicting. Some of these types of errors are over-lapping.
Posted in Bible, Bible contradiction, bible difficulties, christian apologetics, Christianity, God, Reformed, Theology, tagged Bible, Bible contradiction, bible difficulties, christian apologetics, Christianity, God, Reformed, Theology on July 30, 2019| 31 Comments »
For today’s post we will tackle the question the Skeptic Annotated Bible asked: How long did Jehoash reign?
Here are the two answers which the skeptic believes indicate a Bible contradiction:
“In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.” (2 Kings 12:1)
“In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah, Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz became king over Israel in Samaria, and reigned sixteen years.” (2 Kings 13:10)
(All Scriptural quotation comes from the New American Standard Bible)
Here’s a closer look at whether or not there is a contradiction:
Posted in Book Review, Christianity, Reformed, Theology, tagged book review, Christianity, Reformed, Theology on July 29, 2019| 19 Comments »
Stuart Scott. Communication and Conflict Resolution: A Biblical Perspective. Bemidji, MN: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing, July 10th 2005. 36 pp.
5 out of 5
Purchase: Amazon
Need to work on your communication and conflict resolution skill biblically? This booklet by Stuart Scott a professor of biblical counseling might be what you are looking for. Don’t let the size of this pamphlet deceive you; there’s a lot of helpful materials found in its pages and I personally took a few weeks of slowly digesting it and taking lots of notes when I read it.
Posted in Christianity, Church, Reformed, Theology, tagged Christianity, Church, Reformed, Theology on July 28, 2019| 26 Comments »
This Sunday at Church I want to encourage you to do the following: Sing with Thanksgiving.
Posted in Bible, Book Review, Christianity, Reformed, Theology, tagged Bible, book review, Christianity, Reformed, Theology on July 27, 2019| 17 Comments »
I’ve been preaching the book of Ruth. It has been taking a lot more time in preparation.
Posted in Apologetic Links, christian apologetics, Christianity, Cornelius Van Til, Presuppositional Apologetics, presuppositionalism, Reformed, Theology, Van Til, tagged christian apologetics, Christianity, Cornelius Van Til, presuppositional apologetics, presuppositionlism, Reformed, Theology, Van Til on July 26, 2019| 29 Comments »
Seems like today people often object to Christianity from the worldview of Naturalism.
Greg Bahnsen addresses the problem of the Naturalist worldview; he was one of my favorite hero and Presuppositonal apologist.
Check it out:
Posted in addiction, biblical counseling, Book Review, Christianity, God, Reformed, Theology, tagged addiction, Bible, biblical counseling, Christianity, God, Reformed, Theology on July 25, 2019| 13 Comments »
Edward Welch. ‘Just One More’: When Desires Don’t Take No for an Answer. Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing, April 1st 2002. 32 pp.
5 out of 5
Purchase: Westminster | Amazon
How do you fight the sinful urge of wanting to sin just once more? And can Christians actually say no to addictions? In this little counseling booklet by Edward Welch he answers these questions and more, giving Christians hope and the means to deal with our sinful desire when it doesn’t want to take a no for an answer. This is one more helpful biblical counseling booklet from the wonderful “Resources for Changing Lives” counseling booklet series.
Posted in Book Review, Book Review, Children, Children's book, Geronimo Stilton, History, History Books, tagged book review, Children, Children's book, Geronimo Stilton, History, History book on July 24, 2019| 11 Comments »
In continuing with our blog’s “wee-kids Wednesdays” here’s a review of Children’s books. While this week’s review of children’s books aren’t Christian works they are still something homeschool kids and parents would appreciate!
I’m posting first my top recommended book…
Geronimo Stilton. The First Samurai. New York, NY: Papercutz, March 19th 2013. 56 pp.
5 out of 5
Purchase: Amazon
Want your kids to experience a fun way of learning about samurais and Medieval Japan? This is your book! This is the twelfth volume of the Geronimo Stilton Graphic Novel series and is among my top two of the series thus far. My kids also thought this was one of their top book from this series.
Posted in Bible, christian apologetics, Christianity, old testament, Reformed, Theology, tagged Bible, christian apologetics, Christianity, God, Old Testament, Reformed, Theology on July 24, 2019| 39 Comments »
We can know the words of the Old Testament Part 3
Review: Last two lessons we saw a total of nine reasons why we can know the original words of the Old Testament
Purpose: In this session we shall consider more reasons why we can believe why we can know the actual words of the Old Testament so that we will have faith in God’s Word being God’s Word.
Posted in Bible, Christianity, God, Jesus Christ, Minor Prophets, old testament, Reformed, Theology, tagged Bible, Christianity, God, Jesus Christ, Minor Prophets, Old Testament, Reformed, Theology on July 23, 2019| 29 Comments »
It’s a shame that the Minor Prophets in the Old Testament is often neglected and ignored.
Here’s our series of outlines surveying the Minor Prophets in the Old Testament.
Posted in Apologetic Links, christian apologetics, Christianity, Cornelius Van Til, Presuppositional Apologetics, presuppositionalism, Reformed, Theology, Van Til, tagged Apologetic Links, christian apologetics, Christianity, Cornelius Van Til, presuppositional apologetics, presuppositionalism, Reformed, Theology, Van Til on July 22, 2019| 17 Comments »
Here are the links related to Presuppositonal Apologetics gathered from July 15th-21st, 2019.
1.)History Of Science Is Littered With The Remains Of Successful But False Theories – Sober Skepticism
2.) Bible Contradiction? Who was Samuel’s firstborn son?
3.) Ken Ham vs. the SES Apologetic
4.) Pig Brains Revived and Do Men Have Souls?
5.) Series: How Can We Trust the Bible? Lectures by Michael Kruger
6.) Reforming Apologetics (Calvin)
7.) We can know the words of the Old Testament Part 2
8.) J. V. Fesko’s Deforming Apologetics
9.) Village atheist of the month award
Missed the last round up? Check out the re-blogged post from a friend OR that of Another Repost HERE
Posted in Christianity, Gospel, Jesus, Reformed, Salvation, Theology, tagged Christianity, Gospel, Jesus, Reformed, Salvation, Theology on July 21, 2019| 15 Comments »
If you haven’t followed Fran’s blog “God’s Grace ~ God’s Glory!” yet you should. Fran’s site feature biblical posts and she’s also authored Christian books.
I have written a guest post on her site titled “Words of Life: BLOOD” which is a word study on the word “Blood” and it rich theme pointing to aspects of our salvation as taught in Scripture. Check it out!
Posted in Book Review, Comic book, Comics, The Black Beetle, The Shadow, tagged book review, Comic book, Comics, The Black Beetle, The Shadow on July 20, 2019| 14 Comments »
A weekend reading review…because sometimes Pastors need a break from heavy reading also. Haven’t posted these in a while but need a mental break after staying up till 5 AM today to finish up a sermon outline.
Francesco Francavilla. The Black Beetle: Kara Bocek. Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Comics, September 6th 2017. 56 pp.
5 out of 5
Purchase: Amazon
Looking for a fun comic short comic story of caped heroes taking place in the 1940s? You might like this adventure! About a year ago I read the first work on the Black Beetle titled The Black Beetle No Way Out. I almost didn’t read it as I thought it would be cheesy and plus in real life I don’t like Beetles. But the work impressed me very much. Which is why I picked up this work that was also written and drawn by Francesco Francavilla, an Italian graphic novel artist and writer.
Posted in Apologetic Links, Bible, christian apologetics, Christianity, Michael Kruger, new testament, Presuppositional Apologetics, presuppositionalism, Reformed, Theology, tagged Apologetic Links, Bible, christian apologetics, Christianity, Michael Kruger, New Testament, presuppositional apologetics, presuppositionalism, Reformed, Theology on July 20, 2019| 31 Comments »
This is a series of lectures titled “How Can We Trust the Bible?” delivered by Michael Kruger, president of Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte. If you follow this blog for any amount of time you might recognized the name of this scholar for we have shared other resources from him before. For instance see Four Lectures on the Canon by Michael J. Kruger (Free MP3s!) and Video: Michael Kruger on What It Means That the Bible Is Self-Authenticating.
This particular lecture series was presented at Christ Community Church Wilmington.
It consists of 3 lectures and 2 Q&A.
Check it out below:
The Domain for Truth 