This is the latest book (2023) by Michael Vlach. This is a companion volume to his small book (both books are around 100 pages) Dispensationalism (2017). To a knowlegable dispensatinalist this book would be standard hermeneutical fare. Yet I found it refreshing because he interacts with current trends such as Progressive Covenantalism and Replacement Theology. […]
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Biblical Foundations for Manhood and Wom...
It was in 1991 that Wayne Grudem and John Piper edited Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. The current work, edited only by Grudem, written in 2002, was originally addresses done at a conference in Dallas, TX. The major messages in the book are done by Grudem and Bruce Ware with single chapters by five other […]
50 Crucial Questions
In 1991, John Piper and Wayne Grudem published Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. This smaller booklet (2016) is basically chapter 2 of that book. However, this book gives concise and quick answers to many vital questions of today. The authors are complementarians, believe in male headship in the family and the church, denounce homosexuality as a […]
A Comment About “I Can Only Imagine”
If you know me you know I’m not a fan of Christian Rock or Contemporary Christian Music. I see the advertisements for the music on the News or online. The Rock band MercyMe was featured on Fox News one morning with vocalist Bart Millard. That caused me to read a little and watch the trailer […]
The God Who Speaks
“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds” Hebrews 1:1-2 America is quickly leaving a word-based society […]
Having Respect of Persons
In preaching through the second chapter of the book of James, we usually focus on faith and works in the second half of the chapter. However, the respect of persons which James deals with in the first nine verses is just as needful, and perhaps much more, in our own day. Faith and works is […]
Hiding The Gospel From Faith Alone
No thinking person likes it when a salesman beats around the bush before explaining the reason he’s talking with him. Who likes to get those dinner-time calls asking for someone by name, as if it were an old friend, that turn out to be telemarketers? Beating around the bush, bait and switch, hawking one’s wares, […]
A Response from No-Man’s Land
This article appeared in the September/October 2001 issue (Vol. 10, No. 5) of The Baptist Preacher. The original article is found in the September 2001 issue (Vol. 8 No. 9) of Aletheia under the title “Is There An Alternative Point Of View? (To The Traditional vs Progressive Debate)”. An ancient saint once said, “It is […]
How Relevant is Relevancy?
For a generation now the church has been concerned about whether or not the world is listening to our message. Books and articles continue to bemoan our plight of a decreasing effectiveness in evangelism and church attendance. This has caused many to make drastic changes to the methodology and polity of the church. But even […]
Who Stole My Church?
The sub-title is, “What to do when the church I love tries to enter the twenty-first century.” Though you may think this book is defending the traditional church in the face of contemporary changes, it is not. It is rather defending the contemporary church by making a caricature of conservative churches. MacDonald creates a hypothetical […]