The Destructive Doctrine of Distinctives

Whether based on family and denominational traditions or biblically convinced applications and matters of conscience, everyone develops  preferences when it comes to how they practice their faith. Some utilize a more regulative principle in their decision making while others exercise a more normative principle, yet in the end they share the same result – [...]

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From Contraband to Teaching Tool

This blog entry comes from an article that I wrote at the request of my friend Brent Thomas who pastors a church in Texas. His blog is topnotch and if you haven’t been to it you need to visit.

I was raised in a moral home, high on religiosity and regulation, but low on gospel. [...]

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SBC. Pharisee? May It Never Be!

The Southern Baptist Convention has gone wonky. They passed Resolution No. 6 "On Alcohol Use in America" during their June assembly. This resolution saddens me greatly for it pushes the line of acceptability by coming full foot into the Pharisee’s camp. We should never seek to enforce our own restrictions on others where [...]

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Rabid Chihuahuas and Banana Peels

At times there is a certain zeal that encroaches upon believers that is misdirected for it forgets that liberty and the law of love must be wrapped around all that we do [1Cor. 13:1; Col. 2:16-17; James 2:12-13]. Some Christians become so engrossed in what they are convinced is a righteous pursuit of holiness that [...]

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