The incense of the Tabernacle was to be burned within the confines of the Tabernacle on the Golden Altar and only the priesthood could offer it. The Golden Altar which sat next to the veil in a position as close to the Ark of the Covenant as a priest could attain except on the Day […]
Nature Or Nurture?
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will […]
It’s in Your Head
One of the most stunning ideas that infects Christendom, sometimes more than others but especially right now, is the notion that Doctrine and ministry which brings personal benefits to needy people are separable and even unrelated. To see how crazy this idea really is it is necessary to examine what doctrine is. Perhaps this is […]
Should Adulterous Pastors Be Restored?
“Genuine forgiveness does not necessarily imply restoration to leadership,” former CT editor Kenneth Kantzer once wrote after the moral failure of several prominent evangelical leaders. Yet the impulse to link forgiveness with restoration to ministry remains strong. Here two pastor-theologians argue for the importance of keeping separate the restoration to the body of Christ and […]
Balance
Maintaining Apostolic balance is always a difficult job. Our preaching and teaching should strive to do just that in every area in order to furnish the saints to do the will of God in these last days. Formalism verses Emotionalism are two ditches that neither produce the worship nor order of service patterned in the […]
Which We Preach?
Romans 10:8 “But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;” The climate of today has produced a generation of people who distrust authority—all authority, including biblical authority. Once people exercised a healthy confidence in government, police, church […]
The Knee-Jerk Reactions Phenomena
Recently I was in a discussion with an individual with a strong Calvinistic mindset who was adamant about individual predestination (by the way, this was a Oneness preacher). It still amazes me that anyone could espouse such a foolish and erroneous doctrine especially anyone even a hint of the truth of the Apostolic faith. It […]
Colony Collapse Disorder
“When the Enemy Comes in Like a Flood” “And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcass of the lion. And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, […]
The Gospel’s Unavoidable Effect….
The preaching of the Cross of Jesus Christ created a great divide between the world and the Church—two distinctly different systems, scales of value, standards of judgment, sets of laws, which stand contrasted on the two sides of the Cross. The system of each is not only quite different but irreconcilable and forever mutually antagonistic. […]
When Two Very Different Worlds Collide
Even though, geographically speaking, the world of human spectators and the world of animal spectacles were set in the same area, nevertheless, they were never meant to blend together. The spectators and the spectacles were always separated by some barrier that was meant to keep the two from co-mingling. This is how a zoo was […]