How do we teach? Pt.3

Now, without further ado, I will address the third point mentioned in my original post.
3.)There are no spiritual elites.
Why is this an important statement to make? I suppose there could be a number of reasons.
So people don’t become spiritually prideful? Perhaps.
To bring a spirit of equality into the Church? Maybe.
To encourage the [...]

How do we teach? Pt.2

In continuing the examination of a teaching I recently heard, I want to address the second of the points that I laid out out in the opening post concerning this.
Here was the first of them: 1. When we first believed by hearing the Gospel we all received the same Spirit.
The second, the one that [...]

How do we teach?

I heard a sermon today that went a little something like this:

When we first believed by hearing the Gospel we all received the same Spirit.
Since we have all received the same Spirit, there is no difference among believers.
There are no spiritual elites.
Since there is no difference among believers, we are led to love one another [...]

Paying the Temple Tax

Given that Beth and I both grew up in the church, and we have been raised in the Bible belt, it is rare for us to come across a passage of Scripture that neither of us can ever recall coming across. This is especially true of the New Testament. However, just such a case happened [...]

Jesus and Logic

J.P. Moreland has an excellent post today in which he uses Scripture to show how Jesus used logical forms and laws in his thinking and reasoning:
Today there is widespread indifference to, even downright hostility towards logic and the fundamental laws that govern it. We are sometimes told that logic is a Western construction invented by [...]

L.O.I. (08/04)

This busy summer for the Band of Brothers has been born out through our lack of posts. So, I thought I would get things started again by providing some Links of Interest (LOI):

The Porn Myth
Tim Challies writes about how a secular magazine article regarding the negative impact of porn bares out Biblical truth.
Star Parker and [...]