This is the Wednesday evening devotional from the Phoenix Reformed Baptist Church, 12/10/2008.
I promised to eventually get around to Pastor Mike Winger’s video on the “Achilles Heel of Calvinism,” as it had been sent to me at least a dozen times by different folks, and so today we got to it, even though we were up against the Kavanaugh hearings which probably shrank the audience a good bit (Rich says we still
It was my privilege to minister the Word of God yesterday, and we continued in our study of Hebrews. I, however, forgot to bring my video camera to the morning service, so, here is a still shot from the evening service along with the audio of the sermon. A truly challenging portion of Scripture.
Did a thorough review of a United Methodist woman’s claims about the Bible and homosexuality, working through key texts. Then listened to what Dr. MacArthur said about postmillenialism and “losing down here,” and offered a response. Hope we get to do another program, but must admit, we said more than enough on this one program to have us removed in
Briefly commented on Dr. Mike Licona’s “I don’t pay attention to White” statement on Facebook—noting that just a few months ago he paid enough attention to promote a debate challenge from a fellow who was told by God to debate me on Calvinism. Sorta ironic. Anyway, spent the vast majority of the program responding to this article from Alan Ruhl,
Started off with a quick look at the simple crash in Australian live births in December of 2021–hmm, what could explain that I wonder? Then we talked about what seems like a really silly objection to the faith and how to turn it into a door-opening gospel presentation. Then I finished looking at the second in a series of articles
In the preceding installment we addressed J.P. Holding’s claim that Paul is using a “negation idiom” in Romans 9:16, based upon his particular interpretation of Jeremiah 7:22. We demonstrated that there is no reason to accept this argumentation, and good reason to reject it, from the text of Romans 9 itself. But there is another good reason to reject it:
5:1 Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, Alternates: Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ (NIV) Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ (NASB) NA27 Text: Dikaiwqevnte”
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