Author Archive for: DrOakley

For those of you who are net savvy, or have a real browser like FireFox, you will note that we now have a real blog, RSS compliant and all that stuff. Most of you will not really see any difference, but it will be a lot easier on me (especially when I travel) to keep current. No, Dave, I’m not

Why do we find the following? Mark A. Seifrid, Christ, Our Righteousness (Downer’s Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2000). Contrary to the title, Seifrid denies the traditional Protestant doctrine of the imputed righteousness of Christ in justification. (Fred Malone in the Reformed Baptist Theological Review I:1, 109). Seifrid will disappoint the confessional Protestant in at least two of his positions: (1)

When men no longer acknowledge their created status, the result is this. The imago Dei is more than a theological phrase. It impacts life. TexPresby’s Citation of Archibald Alexander is well worth a read.

The program is live streamed, so listen in here.

The Parrot A young man named Ray received a parrot as a gift. The parrot had a bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary. Every word out of the bird’s mouth was rude, insulting, and laced with profanity. Ray tried and tried to change the bird’s attitude by consistently saying only polite words, playing soft music, reading poetry, and anything

It is so very strange to hear the new American way of speaking of “being thankful.” Normally, when you are thankful, the object of your thankfulness is known and understood. But given the inroads secularists have made in twisting our laws and the intentions of the founders of this nation, we now have the odd specter of object-less giving of

The Anti-Christian Litigation Union is busily running about the US doing all it can to protect the sensitive souls of atheists from any public appearance of religion once again this holiday season. But if you really want to know the truth, listen to George Washington’s establishment of the observance of Thanksgiving: George Washington’s 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation Whereas it is the

My apologies for not noting that I will be on the national radio broadcast of Issues, Etc., this evening at 10PM CT. Here is the link. The subject will be my book, Scripture Alone.

My apologies to all the Les Brown fans out there. I am so utterly sick of The Da Vinci Code I don’t know what to do with myself, but it is not going away, and with a movie now in the works, it is time to make every believer an expert on the issues involved. A plethora of books/booklets have

Well, there we are! The photographer almost had a cow when we showed up for our picture. “How many of you are there?” A few folks missed out, but this is the main group. Yeah, you could say they knew we were on the boat. I think the only larger group was the bridge tournament group. Ironically, they played in