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by Phil Johnson ot this question today in more than one Tweet (regarding the Grace Church elders' statement "Christ, Not Caesar, Is Head of the Church"), so I'll answer it here: Thanks for the question. I'll answer candidly. Speaking for myself alone, I'll acknowledge that yes, my thinking on the question of the COVID-19 quarantine and Romans 13 has changed somewhat—or at least been refined PYROMANIACS: WOKEISM IS A HATEFUL RELIGION Wokeism Is a Hateful Religion. by Phil Johnson. BTW, "Get Woke or get out" is no way to promote Christian unity. ohn McWhorter, professor of linguistics, comparative religion, music history, and Americana at Columbia University has been pointing out (since at least 2015) that Woke anti-racism is a religion. McWhorter says, "When someone attests PYROMANIACS: SHOWING THE SPIRIT BY D.A. CARSON So in 1996 1987, Carson also published a lengthy treatise on 1 Cor 12-14, entitled Showing the Spirit.Over the last 3 weeks, it has found new life among those who demand the necessity of the apostolic spiritual gifts, and the word on the street is that this book has never properly been reviewed or refuted by anyone of a Cessationist disposition, therefore Check and Mate: start speaking in tongues. PYROMANIACS: NON SOLA SCRIPTURA: THE BLACKABY VIEW OF GOD The book allows advocates of three distinct approaches to the will of God to set forth their views, after which each is critiqued by the others. I will focus on the first only, which is called the "Specific-Will" view. It is written by Henry and Richard Blackaby, who are father and son. I only barely began reading Garry Friesen'sresponse and
PYROMANIACS: BOOK REVIEW by Dan Phillips Title: Philippians: A Mentor Commentary Author: Matthew S. Harmon Publisher: Christian Focus Publications Date: 2015 Backstory.Matt Harmon is professor of New Testament studies at Grace College and Grace Theological Seminary, in Winona Lake, Indiana. Harmon has contributed to various books and academic journals in the past, in the former category including a PYROMANIACS: ONE ARMINIAN'S PROOF-TEXTS One Arminian's Proof-Texts. ere's an exchange of e-mail messages I had with an Arminian who wrote me to insist he had irrefutable arguments against the sovereignty of God in the salvation of sinners. It turned out he had a real gift for distilling Arminian presuppositions into neat sound-bites and supporting them with unusual proof-texts, but PYROMANIACS: SPURGEON ON WOMEN PREACHING Spurgeon on women preaching. The PyroManiacs devote some space each weekend to highlights from the lifetime of works from the Prince of Preachers, Charles Haddon Spurgeon. The following excerpts are from the original sources cited therewith. When Boswell told Johnson one day that he had heard a woman preach that morning at a Quaker'smeeting
PYROMANIACS: SPURGEON SEARCHING FOR STRIPES 11:36 AM, December 03, 2008. Stefan Ewing said By the way, a search just for the words "spurgeon stripe back" without the quotes (either in Google, or in Google Books) yields a number of quotations from his sermons and writings on the Crucifixion of Christ (Isaiah 53, etc.). It's good that God can be glorified through snippets of the Gospel A MESSAGE FOR THE LAST SUNDAY NIGHT OF THE OLD YEAR A Message for the Last Sunday Night of the Old Year. The Pyro Maniacs devote some space each weekend to highlights from The Spurgeon Archive. The following excerpt is from "The Last Message for the Year," a sermon preached at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, London, on Sunday evening, 28 December 1873. ossibly there is someone, on thislast Sunday
FILTHY CALVINISTS, AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE TO HATE THEM Filthy Calvinists, and the people who love to hate them. by Frank Turk. Before the real antics begin today, our friends at Triablogue have digitally-published a book called The Infidel Delusion to respond to John Loftus' cadre of sad-faced clowns' most recent book, the Christian Delusion -- because it's the Christians, you see, whoslavishly
PYROMANIACS
by Phil Johnson ot this question today in more than one Tweet (regarding the Grace Church elders' statement "Christ, Not Caesar, Is Head of the Church"), so I'll answer it here: Thanks for the question. I'll answer candidly. Speaking for myself alone, I'll acknowledge that yes, my thinking on the question of the COVID-19 quarantine and Romans 13 has changed somewhat—or at least been refined PYROMANIACS: WOKEISM IS A HATEFUL RELIGION Wokeism Is a Hateful Religion. by Phil Johnson. BTW, "Get Woke or get out" is no way to promote Christian unity. ohn McWhorter, professor of linguistics, comparative religion, music history, and Americana at Columbia University has been pointing out (since at least 2015) that Woke anti-racism is a religion. McWhorter says, "When someone attests PYROMANIACS: SHOWING THE SPIRIT BY D.A. CARSON So in 1996 1987, Carson also published a lengthy treatise on 1 Cor 12-14, entitled Showing the Spirit.Over the last 3 weeks, it has found new life among those who demand the necessity of the apostolic spiritual gifts, and the word on the street is that this book has never properly been reviewed or refuted by anyone of a Cessationist disposition, therefore Check and Mate: start speaking in tongues. PYROMANIACS: NON SOLA SCRIPTURA: THE BLACKABY VIEW OF GOD The book allows advocates of three distinct approaches to the will of God to set forth their views, after which each is critiqued by the others. I will focus on the first only, which is called the "Specific-Will" view. It is written by Henry and Richard Blackaby, who are father and son. I only barely began reading Garry Friesen'sresponse and
PYROMANIACS: BOOK REVIEW by Dan Phillips Title: Philippians: A Mentor Commentary Author: Matthew S. Harmon Publisher: Christian Focus Publications Date: 2015 Backstory.Matt Harmon is professor of New Testament studies at Grace College and Grace Theological Seminary, in Winona Lake, Indiana. Harmon has contributed to various books and academic journals in the past, in the former category including a PYROMANIACS: ONE ARMINIAN'S PROOF-TEXTS One Arminian's Proof-Texts. ere's an exchange of e-mail messages I had with an Arminian who wrote me to insist he had irrefutable arguments against the sovereignty of God in the salvation of sinners. It turned out he had a real gift for distilling Arminian presuppositions into neat sound-bites and supporting them with unusual proof-texts, but PYROMANIACS: SPURGEON ON WOMEN PREACHING Spurgeon on women preaching. The PyroManiacs devote some space each weekend to highlights from the lifetime of works from the Prince of Preachers, Charles Haddon Spurgeon. The following excerpts are from the original sources cited therewith. When Boswell told Johnson one day that he had heard a woman preach that morning at a Quaker'smeeting
PYROMANIACS: SPURGEON SEARCHING FOR STRIPES 11:36 AM, December 03, 2008. Stefan Ewing said By the way, a search just for the words "spurgeon stripe back" without the quotes (either in Google, or in Google Books) yields a number of quotations from his sermons and writings on the Crucifixion of Christ (Isaiah 53, etc.). It's good that God can be glorified through snippets of the Gospel A MESSAGE FOR THE LAST SUNDAY NIGHT OF THE OLD YEAR A Message for the Last Sunday Night of the Old Year. The Pyro Maniacs devote some space each weekend to highlights from The Spurgeon Archive. The following excerpt is from "The Last Message for the Year," a sermon preached at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, London, on Sunday evening, 28 December 1873. ossibly there is someone, on thislast Sunday
FILTHY CALVINISTS, AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE TO HATE THEM Filthy Calvinists, and the people who love to hate them. by Frank Turk. Before the real antics begin today, our friends at Triablogue have digitally-published a book called The Infidel Delusion to respond to John Loftus' cadre of sad-faced clowns' most recent book, the Christian Delusion -- because it's the Christians, you see, whoslavishly
PYROMANIACS: VIRTUAL COMMUNION? In practice, however, "virtual communion" services do confuse people—or worse. Saddleback Church, for example, has embraced the idea of "virtual communion." In an email message to church members during Passion Week, Rick Warren wrote, "Last weekend, thousands of our members participated in this tradition at home in our first onlineCommunion
PYROMANIACS: SHOWING THE SPIRIT BY D.A. CARSON So in 1996 1987, Carson also published a lengthy treatise on 1 Cor 12-14, entitled Showing the Spirit.Over the last 3 weeks, it has found new life among those who demand the necessity of the apostolic spiritual gifts, and the word on the street is that this book has never properly been reviewed or refuted by anyone of a Cessationist disposition, therefore Check and Mate: start speaking in tongues. PYROMANIACS: “WHAT WEAK CREATURES WE ARE!" Psalm 119:67. Often our trials act as a thorn-hedge to keep us in the good pasture; but our prosperity is a gap through which we go astray. If any of us remember a time in which we had no trouble, we also probably recollect that then grace was low, and temptation was strong. It may be that some believer cries, “Oh that it were with me as in PYROMANIACS: "WHAT'S YOUR NAME?" Sharon said. I can echo what you said, having worked on the GCC staff for almost 40 years, now. God has blessed John mightily, and I thank the Lord for this pastor at whose church I, as an unbeliever in 1971, learned about Jesus Christ, repented, believed, and sat under his ministry (and the ministry of his father, Dr. Jack MacArthur) for almost his entire tenure at Grace Church. PYROMANIACS: ONE ARMINIAN'S PROOF-TEXTS One Arminian's Proof-Texts. ere's an exchange of e-mail messages I had with an Arminian who wrote me to insist he had irrefutable arguments against the sovereignty of God in the salvation of sinners. It turned out he had a real gift for distilling Arminian presuppositions into neat sound-bites and supporting them with unusual proof-texts, but PYROMANIACS: PAUL AND CULTURE Paul was using sanctified sarcasm when he started out by observing how religious they were. Now, their culture, like ours, had all the trappings of religion, and they were omnipresent: temples on every corner, idols, priests and priestesses, and lots of superstitions and deeply-ingrained traditions. PYROMANIACS: A. W. PINK: GLORIFYING GOD BY DISOBEYING HIM? by Dan Phillips I realize that A. W. Pink is a hero and beloved saint to many. His books, particularly The Sovereignty of God, have been very helpful for decades. For my part, I've never been a PYROMANIACS: JESUS VS. THE PHARISEES There is no hint of sympathy, no proposal of clemency, no trace of kindness, no effort on Jesus' part to be "nice" toward the Pharisees. Indeed, with these words Jesus formally and resoundingly pronounced their doom and then held them up publicly as a warning to others. This is the polar opposite of any invitation to dialogue. PYROMANIACS: ON THE FOLLY OF PREACHING TOO LONG On the Folly of Preaching too Long. Your weekly dose of Spurgeon. posted by Phil Johnson. The Pyro Maniacs devote some space each weekend to highlights from The Spurgeon Archive. The following excerpt is from an article titled "Advice Gratis," published in the 1872 issue of The Sword and the Trowel. ength is the enemy of strength. PYROMANIACS: THIRD THOUGHTS ABOUT MATTHEW 28:19 IN GREEK πορευθέντες οὖν μαθητεύσατε πάντα τὰ ἔθνη, βαπτίζοντες αὐτοὺς εἰς τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ πατρὸς καὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος. (Matthew 28:19)Probably the KJV is still the most familiar rendering: "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of thePYROMANIACS
by Phil Johnson ot this question today in more than one Tweet (regarding the Grace Church elders' statement "Christ, Not Caesar, Is Head of the Church"), so I'll answer it here: Thanks for the question. I'll answer candidly. Speaking for myself alone, I'll acknowledge that yes, my thinking on the question of the COVID-19 quarantine and Romans 13 has changed somewhat—or at least been refined PYROMANIACS: WOKEISM IS A HATEFUL RELIGION Wokeism Is a Hateful Religion. by Phil Johnson. BTW, "Get Woke or get out" is no way to promote Christian unity. ohn McWhorter, professor of linguistics, comparative religion, music history, and Americana at Columbia University has been pointing out (since at least 2015) that Woke anti-racism is a religion. McWhorter says, "When someone attests PYROMANIACS: SHOWING THE SPIRIT BY D.A. CARSON So in 1996 1987, Carson also published a lengthy treatise on 1 Cor 12-14, entitled Showing the Spirit.Over the last 3 weeks, it has found new life among those who demand the necessity of the apostolic spiritual gifts, and the word on the street is that this book has never properly been reviewed or refuted by anyone of a Cessationist disposition, therefore Check and Mate: start speaking in tongues. PYROMANIACS: NON SOLA SCRIPTURA: THE BLACKABY VIEW OF GOD The book allows advocates of three distinct approaches to the will of God to set forth their views, after which each is critiqued by the others. I will focus on the first only, which is called the "Specific-Will" view. It is written by Henry and Richard Blackaby, who are father and son. I only barely began reading Garry Friesen'sresponse and
PYROMANIACS: BOOK REVIEW by Dan Phillips Title: Philippians: A Mentor Commentary Author: Matthew S. Harmon Publisher: Christian Focus Publications Date: 2015 Backstory.Matt Harmon is professor of New Testament studies at Grace College and Grace Theological Seminary, in Winona Lake, Indiana. Harmon has contributed to various books and academic journals in the past, in the former category including a PYROMANIACS: ONE ARMINIAN'S PROOF-TEXTS One Arminian's Proof-Texts. ere's an exchange of e-mail messages I had with an Arminian who wrote me to insist he had irrefutable arguments against the sovereignty of God in the salvation of sinners. It turned out he had a real gift for distilling Arminian presuppositions into neat sound-bites and supporting them with unusual proof-texts, but PYROMANIACS: SPURGEON ON WOMEN PREACHING Spurgeon on women preaching. The PyroManiacs devote some space each weekend to highlights from the lifetime of works from the Prince of Preachers, Charles Haddon Spurgeon. The following excerpts are from the original sources cited therewith. When Boswell told Johnson one day that he had heard a woman preach that morning at a Quaker'smeeting
PYROMANIACS: SPURGEON SEARCHING FOR STRIPES 11:36 AM, December 03, 2008. Stefan Ewing said By the way, a search just for the words "spurgeon stripe back" without the quotes (either in Google, or in Google Books) yields a number of quotations from his sermons and writings on the Crucifixion of Christ (Isaiah 53, etc.). It's good that God can be glorified through snippets of the Gospel A MESSAGE FOR THE LAST SUNDAY NIGHT OF THE OLD YEAR A Message for the Last Sunday Night of the Old Year. The Pyro Maniacs devote some space each weekend to highlights from The Spurgeon Archive. The following excerpt is from "The Last Message for the Year," a sermon preached at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, London, on Sunday evening, 28 December 1873. ossibly there is someone, on thislast Sunday
FILTHY CALVINISTS, AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE TO HATE THEM Filthy Calvinists, and the people who love to hate them. by Frank Turk. Before the real antics begin today, our friends at Triablogue have digitally-published a book called The Infidel Delusion to respond to John Loftus' cadre of sad-faced clowns' most recent book, the Christian Delusion -- because it's the Christians, you see, whoslavishly
PYROMANIACS
by Phil Johnson ot this question today in more than one Tweet (regarding the Grace Church elders' statement "Christ, Not Caesar, Is Head of the Church"), so I'll answer it here: Thanks for the question. I'll answer candidly. Speaking for myself alone, I'll acknowledge that yes, my thinking on the question of the COVID-19 quarantine and Romans 13 has changed somewhat—or at least been refined PYROMANIACS: WOKEISM IS A HATEFUL RELIGION Wokeism Is a Hateful Religion. by Phil Johnson. BTW, "Get Woke or get out" is no way to promote Christian unity. ohn McWhorter, professor of linguistics, comparative religion, music history, and Americana at Columbia University has been pointing out (since at least 2015) that Woke anti-racism is a religion. McWhorter says, "When someone attests PYROMANIACS: SHOWING THE SPIRIT BY D.A. CARSON So in 1996 1987, Carson also published a lengthy treatise on 1 Cor 12-14, entitled Showing the Spirit.Over the last 3 weeks, it has found new life among those who demand the necessity of the apostolic spiritual gifts, and the word on the street is that this book has never properly been reviewed or refuted by anyone of a Cessationist disposition, therefore Check and Mate: start speaking in tongues. PYROMANIACS: NON SOLA SCRIPTURA: THE BLACKABY VIEW OF GOD The book allows advocates of three distinct approaches to the will of God to set forth their views, after which each is critiqued by the others. I will focus on the first only, which is called the "Specific-Will" view. It is written by Henry and Richard Blackaby, who are father and son. I only barely began reading Garry Friesen'sresponse and
PYROMANIACS: BOOK REVIEW by Dan Phillips Title: Philippians: A Mentor Commentary Author: Matthew S. Harmon Publisher: Christian Focus Publications Date: 2015 Backstory.Matt Harmon is professor of New Testament studies at Grace College and Grace Theological Seminary, in Winona Lake, Indiana. Harmon has contributed to various books and academic journals in the past, in the former category including a PYROMANIACS: ONE ARMINIAN'S PROOF-TEXTS One Arminian's Proof-Texts. ere's an exchange of e-mail messages I had with an Arminian who wrote me to insist he had irrefutable arguments against the sovereignty of God in the salvation of sinners. It turned out he had a real gift for distilling Arminian presuppositions into neat sound-bites and supporting them with unusual proof-texts, but PYROMANIACS: SPURGEON ON WOMEN PREACHING Spurgeon on women preaching. The PyroManiacs devote some space each weekend to highlights from the lifetime of works from the Prince of Preachers, Charles Haddon Spurgeon. The following excerpts are from the original sources cited therewith. When Boswell told Johnson one day that he had heard a woman preach that morning at a Quaker'smeeting
PYROMANIACS: SPURGEON SEARCHING FOR STRIPES 11:36 AM, December 03, 2008. Stefan Ewing said By the way, a search just for the words "spurgeon stripe back" without the quotes (either in Google, or in Google Books) yields a number of quotations from his sermons and writings on the Crucifixion of Christ (Isaiah 53, etc.). It's good that God can be glorified through snippets of the Gospel A MESSAGE FOR THE LAST SUNDAY NIGHT OF THE OLD YEAR A Message for the Last Sunday Night of the Old Year. The Pyro Maniacs devote some space each weekend to highlights from The Spurgeon Archive. The following excerpt is from "The Last Message for the Year," a sermon preached at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, London, on Sunday evening, 28 December 1873. ossibly there is someone, on thislast Sunday
FILTHY CALVINISTS, AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE TO HATE THEM Filthy Calvinists, and the people who love to hate them. by Frank Turk. Before the real antics begin today, our friends at Triablogue have digitally-published a book called The Infidel Delusion to respond to John Loftus' cadre of sad-faced clowns' most recent book, the Christian Delusion -- because it's the Christians, you see, whoslavishly
PYROMANIACS: VIRTUAL COMMUNION? In practice, however, "virtual communion" services do confuse people—or worse. Saddleback Church, for example, has embraced the idea of "virtual communion." In an email message to church members during Passion Week, Rick Warren wrote, "Last weekend, thousands of our members participated in this tradition at home in our first onlineCommunion
PYROMANIACS: SHOWING THE SPIRIT BY D.A. CARSON So in 1996 1987, Carson also published a lengthy treatise on 1 Cor 12-14, entitled Showing the Spirit.Over the last 3 weeks, it has found new life among those who demand the necessity of the apostolic spiritual gifts, and the word on the street is that this book has never properly been reviewed or refuted by anyone of a Cessationist disposition, therefore Check and Mate: start speaking in tongues. PYROMANIACS: “WHAT WEAK CREATURES WE ARE!" Psalm 119:67. Often our trials act as a thorn-hedge to keep us in the good pasture; but our prosperity is a gap through which we go astray. If any of us remember a time in which we had no trouble, we also probably recollect that then grace was low, and temptation was strong. It may be that some believer cries, “Oh that it were with me as in PYROMANIACS: "WHAT'S YOUR NAME?" Sharon said. I can echo what you said, having worked on the GCC staff for almost 40 years, now. God has blessed John mightily, and I thank the Lord for this pastor at whose church I, as an unbeliever in 1971, learned about Jesus Christ, repented, believed, and sat under his ministry (and the ministry of his father, Dr. Jack MacArthur) for almost his entire tenure at Grace Church. PYROMANIACS: ONE ARMINIAN'S PROOF-TEXTS One Arminian's Proof-Texts. ere's an exchange of e-mail messages I had with an Arminian who wrote me to insist he had irrefutable arguments against the sovereignty of God in the salvation of sinners. It turned out he had a real gift for distilling Arminian presuppositions into neat sound-bites and supporting them with unusual proof-texts, but PYROMANIACS: PAUL AND CULTURE Paul was using sanctified sarcasm when he started out by observing how religious they were. Now, their culture, like ours, had all the trappings of religion, and they were omnipresent: temples on every corner, idols, priests and priestesses, and lots of superstitions and deeply-ingrained traditions. PYROMANIACS: A. W. PINK: GLORIFYING GOD BY DISOBEYING HIM? by Dan Phillips I realize that A. W. Pink is a hero and beloved saint to many. His books, particularly The Sovereignty of God, have been very helpful for decades. For my part, I've never been a PYROMANIACS: JESUS VS. THE PHARISEES There is no hint of sympathy, no proposal of clemency, no trace of kindness, no effort on Jesus' part to be "nice" toward the Pharisees. Indeed, with these words Jesus formally and resoundingly pronounced their doom and then held them up publicly as a warning to others. This is the polar opposite of any invitation to dialogue. PYROMANIACS: ON THE FOLLY OF PREACHING TOO LONG On the Folly of Preaching too Long. Your weekly dose of Spurgeon. posted by Phil Johnson. The Pyro Maniacs devote some space each weekend to highlights from The Spurgeon Archive. The following excerpt is from an article titled "Advice Gratis," published in the 1872 issue of The Sword and the Trowel. ength is the enemy of strength. PYROMANIACS: THIRD THOUGHTS ABOUT MATTHEW 28:19 IN GREEK πορευθέντες οὖν μαθητεύσατε πάντα τὰ ἔθνη, βαπτίζοντες αὐτοὺς εἰς τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ πατρὸς καὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος. (Matthew 28:19)Probably the KJV is still the most familiar rendering: "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of thePYROMANIACS
by Phil Johnson ot this question today in more than one Tweet (regarding the Grace Church elders' statement "Christ, Not Caesar, Is Head of the Church"), so I'll answer it here: Thanks for the question. I'll answer candidly. Speaking for myself alone, I'll acknowledge that yes, my thinking on the question of the COVID-19 quarantine and Romans 13 has changed somewhat—or at least been refined PYROMANIACS: BOOK REVIEW by Dan Phillips Title: Philippians: A Mentor Commentary Author: Matthew S. Harmon Publisher: Christian Focus Publications Date: 2015 Backstory.Matt Harmon is professor of New Testament studies at Grace College and Grace Theological Seminary, in Winona Lake, Indiana. Harmon has contributed to various books and academic journals in the past, in the former category including a PYROMANIACS: NON SOLA SCRIPTURA: THE BLACKABY VIEW OF GOD by Dan Phillips The book. I am currently reading How Then Should We Choose?, edited by Douglas S. Huffman (Kregel: 2009), with a view to reviewing it ultimately. This a pre-review of one part of it.(Translation: I can't hold this back.) The book allows advocates of three distinct approaches to the will of God to set forth their views, after which each is critiqued by the others. PYROMANIACS: ONE ARMINIAN'S PROOF-TEXTS God clearly does command us to do that which is impossible for fallen sinners: "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect" (Matthew 5:48). Moreover, the law of God itself demands to be obeyed perfectly, flawlessly (James 2:10)—thus demanding a level of obedience that has proven utterly impossible for every person who ever lived, except Christ. PYROMANIACS: WOKEISM IS A HATEFUL RELIGION by Phil Johnson BTW, "Get Woke or get out" is no way to promote Christian unity. ohn McWhorter, professor of linguistics, comparative religion, music history, and Americana at Columbia University has been pointing out (since at least 2015) that Woke anti-racism is a religion. McWhorter says, "When someone attests to his white privilege with his hand up in the air, palm outward . . . the A MESSAGE FOR THE LAST SUNDAY NIGHT OF THE OLD YEAR Your weekly dose of Spurgeon posted by Phil Johnson The PyroManiacs devote some space each weekend to highlights from The Spurgeon Archive. The following excerpt is from "The Last Message for the Year," a sermon preached at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, London, on Sunday evening, 28 December 1873. PYROMANIACS: SPURGEON ON WOMEN PREACHING Your weekly Dose of Spurgeon The Pyro Maniacs devote some space each weekend to highlights from the lifetime of works from the Prince of Preachers, Charles Haddon Spurgeon. The following excerpts are from the original sources cited therewith. When Boswell told Johnson one day that he had heard a woman preach that morning at a Quaker's meeting, Johnson replied, "Sir, a woman PYROMANIACS: WHY CALVINISM NECESSITATES PREMILLENNIALISM Note: Debates over eschatological charts and end-times fine points are virtually always off-topic here at PyroManiacs. For the comment-thread under this post, however, we'll make a brief exception to our usual rule, especially since this subject has already been batted around so enthusiastically for several days by our friends and our adversariesalike.
PYROMANIACS: SPURGEON SEARCHING FOR STRIPES Brian @ voiceofthesheep said. Some perpetuate myths out of ignorance (still no excuse), some to be purposefully deceptive and puff themselves up. My parents were sitting in their large mega SBC church not too long ago, when their pastor - to make a point - began to tell a story that happened to "himself", only to realize they had read that VERY same narrative in a book of a well-known FILTHY CALVINISTS, AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE TO HATE THEM by Frank Turk Before the real antics begin today, our friends at Triablogue have digitally-published a book called The Infidel Delusion to respond to John Loftus' cadre of sad-faced clowns' most recent book, the Christian Delusion-- because it's the Christians, you see, who slavishly follow the thoughts and edicts of their mentors and heroes. Anyway, Peter Pike's announcement for the book isPYROMANIACS
by Phil Johnson ot this question today in more than one Tweet (regarding the Grace Church elders' statement "Christ, Not Caesar, Is Head of the Church"), so I'll answer it here: Thanks for the question. I'll answer candidly. Speaking for myself alone, I'll acknowledge that yes, my thinking on the question of the COVID-19 quarantine and Romans 13 has changed somewhat—or at least been refined PYROMANIACS: BOOK REVIEW by Dan Phillips Title: Philippians: A Mentor Commentary Author: Matthew S. Harmon Publisher: Christian Focus Publications Date: 2015 Backstory.Matt Harmon is professor of New Testament studies at Grace College and Grace Theological Seminary, in Winona Lake, Indiana. Harmon has contributed to various books and academic journals in the past, in the former category including a PYROMANIACS: NON SOLA SCRIPTURA: THE BLACKABY VIEW OF GOD by Dan Phillips The book. I am currently reading How Then Should We Choose?, edited by Douglas S. Huffman (Kregel: 2009), with a view to reviewing it ultimately. This a pre-review of one part of it.(Translation: I can't hold this back.) The book allows advocates of three distinct approaches to the will of God to set forth their views, after which each is critiqued by the others. PYROMANIACS: ONE ARMINIAN'S PROOF-TEXTS God clearly does command us to do that which is impossible for fallen sinners: "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect" (Matthew 5:48). Moreover, the law of God itself demands to be obeyed perfectly, flawlessly (James 2:10)—thus demanding a level of obedience that has proven utterly impossible for every person who ever lived, except Christ. PYROMANIACS: WOKEISM IS A HATEFUL RELIGION by Phil Johnson BTW, "Get Woke or get out" is no way to promote Christian unity. ohn McWhorter, professor of linguistics, comparative religion, music history, and Americana at Columbia University has been pointing out (since at least 2015) that Woke anti-racism is a religion. McWhorter says, "When someone attests to his white privilege with his hand up in the air, palm outward . . . the A MESSAGE FOR THE LAST SUNDAY NIGHT OF THE OLD YEAR Your weekly dose of Spurgeon posted by Phil Johnson The PyroManiacs devote some space each weekend to highlights from The Spurgeon Archive. The following excerpt is from "The Last Message for the Year," a sermon preached at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, London, on Sunday evening, 28 December 1873. PYROMANIACS: SPURGEON ON WOMEN PREACHING Your weekly Dose of Spurgeon The Pyro Maniacs devote some space each weekend to highlights from the lifetime of works from the Prince of Preachers, Charles Haddon Spurgeon. The following excerpts are from the original sources cited therewith. When Boswell told Johnson one day that he had heard a woman preach that morning at a Quaker's meeting, Johnson replied, "Sir, a woman PYROMANIACS: WHY CALVINISM NECESSITATES PREMILLENNIALISM Note: Debates over eschatological charts and end-times fine points are virtually always off-topic here at PyroManiacs. For the comment-thread under this post, however, we'll make a brief exception to our usual rule, especially since this subject has already been batted around so enthusiastically for several days by our friends and our adversariesalike.
PYROMANIACS: SPURGEON SEARCHING FOR STRIPES Brian @ voiceofthesheep said. Some perpetuate myths out of ignorance (still no excuse), some to be purposefully deceptive and puff themselves up. My parents were sitting in their large mega SBC church not too long ago, when their pastor - to make a point - began to tell a story that happened to "himself", only to realize they had read that VERY same narrative in a book of a well-known FILTHY CALVINISTS, AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE TO HATE THEM by Frank Turk Before the real antics begin today, our friends at Triablogue have digitally-published a book called The Infidel Delusion to respond to John Loftus' cadre of sad-faced clowns' most recent book, the Christian Delusion-- because it's the Christians, you see, who slavishly follow the thoughts and edicts of their mentors and heroes. Anyway, Peter Pike's announcement for the book is PYROMANIACS: "WHAT'S YOUR NAME?" Sharon said. I can echo what you said, having worked on the GCC staff for almost 40 years, now. God has blessed John mightily, and I thank the Lord for this pastor at whose church I, as an unbeliever in 1971, learned about Jesus Christ, repented, believed, and sat under his ministry (and the ministry of his father, Dr. Jack MacArthur) for almost his entire tenure at Grace Church. PYROMANIACS: ONE ARMINIAN'S PROOF-TEXTS God clearly does command us to do that which is impossible for fallen sinners: "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect" (Matthew 5:48). Moreover, the law of God itself demands to be obeyed perfectly, flawlessly (James 2:10)—thus demanding a level of obedience that has proven utterly impossible for every person who ever lived, except Christ. PYROMANIACS: WHAT ARE YOU WEARING? PART 1: ON THE MODERN Dr. Eakin is a sports medicine orthopædic surgeon in the Bay Area and part time teacher at Grace Bible Fellowship Church's Stanford campus ministry. He is the author of God's Glorious Story. PYROMANIACS: “WHAT WEAK CREATURES WE ARE!" Your weekly Dose of Spurgeon The Pyro Maniacs devote some space each weekend to highlights from the lifetime of works from the Prince of Preachers, Charles Haddon Spurgeon. The following excerpt is from The Golden Alphabet, pages 150-151, Pilgrim Publications. Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word. PYROMANIACS: SHOWING THE SPIRIT BY D.A. CARSON So in 1996 1987, Carson also published a lengthy treatise on 1 Cor 12-14, entitled Showing the Spirit.Over the last 3 weeks, it has found new life among those who demand the necessity of the apostolic spiritual gifts, and the word on the street is that this book has never properly been reviewed or refuted by anyone of a Cessationist disposition, therefore Check and Mate: start speaking in tongues. PYROMANIACS: A. W. PINK: GLORIFYING GOD BY DISOBEYING HIM? by Dan Phillips I realize that A. W. Pink is a hero and beloved saint to many. His books, particularly The Sovereignty of God, have been very helpful for decades. For my part, I've never been a PYROMANIACS: SPURGEON'S PASTORAL WISDOM IN DEALING WITH A I am re-listening to an audio version of Spurgeon's autobiography, and just (re-)heard an anecdote that delighted me.Being one who, as I've shared, has struggled mightily with assurance, it touched me to hear how Spurgeon dealt pastorally with a woman of whose salvation he had no doubt, yet of which she had no assurance. See how CHS tries first one angle, then another, in persisting to reach PYROMANIACS: PAUL AND CULTURE Anonymous said Thanks again, Phil, for filling in some of the background in this exchange. I think the key distinction here between Paul's approach to the Athenians and much of today's cultural contextualization movement is the fact that Paul understood the culture he was speaking the Gospel into, but did not seek to affirm or accommodate that culture. PYROMANIACS: VIRTUAL COMMUNION? Unknown said. I appreciate you weighing on this topic as it is relevant for the times. While you do make a salient point of the repeated emphasis of the church "coming together" to take the Lord's Table in I Cor. 11, you failed to give any credence to the reality that in some ways, a virtual gathering is coming together- especially in the absence of our ability to do so physically. PYROMANIACS: ON THE FOLLY OF PREACHING TOO LONG Your weekly dose of Spurgeon posted by Phil Johnson The PyroManiacs devote some space each weekend to highlights from The Spurgeon Archive. The following excerpt is from an article titled "Advice Gratis," published in the 1872 issue of The Sword and the Trowel. ength is the enemy of strength. The delivery of a discourse is like the boiling of an egg; it is remarkably easy to overdo it, andPYROMANIACS
by Phil Johnson ot this question today in more than one Tweet (regarding the Grace Church elders' statement "Christ, Not Caesar, Is Head of the Church"), so I'll answer it here: Thanks for the question. I'll answer candidly. Speaking for myself alone, I'll acknowledge that yes, my thinking on the question of the COVID-19 quarantine and Romans 13 has changed somewhat—or at least been refined PYROMANIACS: WOKEISM IS A HATEFUL RELIGION Wokeism Is a Hateful Religion. by Phil Johnson. BTW, "Get Woke or get out" is no way to promote Christian unity. ohn McWhorter, professor of linguistics, comparative religion, music history, and Americana at Columbia University has been pointing out (since at least 2015) that Woke anti-racism is a religion. McWhorter says, "When someone attests PYROMANIACS: NON SOLA SCRIPTURA: THE BLACKABY VIEW OF GOD The book allows advocates of three distinct approaches to the will of God to set forth their views, after which each is critiqued by the others. I will focus on the first only, which is called the "Specific-Will" view. It is written by Henry and Richard Blackaby, who are father and son. I only barely began reading Garry Friesen'sresponse and
PYROMANIACS: BOOK REVIEW by Dan Phillips Title: Philippians: A Mentor Commentary Author: Matthew S. Harmon Publisher: Christian Focus Publications Date: 2015 Backstory.Matt Harmon is professor of New Testament studies at Grace College and Grace Theological Seminary, in Winona Lake, Indiana. Harmon has contributed to various books and academic journals in the past, in the former category including a PYROMANIACS: SPURGEON'S PASTORAL WISDOM IN DEALING WITH A Spurgeon's pastoral wisdom in dealing with a woman lacking assurance. by Dan Phillips. I am re-listening to an audio version of Spurgeon's autobiography, and just (re-)heard an anecdote that delighted me. Being one who, as I've shared, has struggled mightily with assurance, it touched me to hear how Spurgeon dealt pastorally with a woman of PYROMANIACS: ONE ARMINIAN'S PROOF-TEXTS One Arminian's Proof-Texts. ere's an exchange of e-mail messages I had with an Arminian who wrote me to insist he had irrefutable arguments against the sovereignty of God in the salvation of sinners. It turned out he had a real gift for distilling Arminian presuppositions into neat sound-bites and supporting them with unusual proof-texts, but PYROMANIACS: A. W. PINK: GLORIFYING GOD BY DISOBEYING HIM?AW PINK WORKSAW PINK YOUTUBE by Dan Phillips I realize that A. W. Pink is a hero and beloved saint to many. His books, particularly The Sovereignty of God, have been very helpful for decades. For my part, I've never been a PYROMANIACS: SAMSON AND JESUS: STUDIES IN CONTRAST One might say that Samson was dedicated to God from the womb ( Judges 13:7 ), as was Christ ( Luke 1:35 ), but there the similarity ends. Samson's dedication was external and formal, Christ's was internal and real. Samson's outer strength belied a great and fatal weakness within; Christ's outer meakness belied literally infinite powerwithin.
PYROMANIACS: WHY CALVINISM NECESSITATES PREMILLENNIALISM The New Testament fulfills His covenant with Abraham. I know this is a rather over simplistic summary, but to say Calvinism necessitates premillennialism because premillennialism is the guardian of God’s preserving covenant with Israel is to miss the teaching of FILTHY CALVINISTS, AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE TO HATE THEM Filthy Calvinists, and the people who love to hate them. by Frank Turk. Before the real antics begin today, our friends at Triablogue have digitally-published a book called The Infidel Delusion to respond to John Loftus' cadre of sad-faced clowns' most recent book, the Christian Delusion -- because it's the Christians, you see, whoslavishly
PYROMANIACS
by Phil Johnson ot this question today in more than one Tweet (regarding the Grace Church elders' statement "Christ, Not Caesar, Is Head of the Church"), so I'll answer it here: Thanks for the question. I'll answer candidly. Speaking for myself alone, I'll acknowledge that yes, my thinking on the question of the COVID-19 quarantine and Romans 13 has changed somewhat—or at least been refined PYROMANIACS: WOKEISM IS A HATEFUL RELIGION Wokeism Is a Hateful Religion. by Phil Johnson. BTW, "Get Woke or get out" is no way to promote Christian unity. ohn McWhorter, professor of linguistics, comparative religion, music history, and Americana at Columbia University has been pointing out (since at least 2015) that Woke anti-racism is a religion. McWhorter says, "When someone attests PYROMANIACS: NON SOLA SCRIPTURA: THE BLACKABY VIEW OF GOD The book allows advocates of three distinct approaches to the will of God to set forth their views, after which each is critiqued by the others. I will focus on the first only, which is called the "Specific-Will" view. It is written by Henry and Richard Blackaby, who are father and son. I only barely began reading Garry Friesen'sresponse and
PYROMANIACS: BOOK REVIEW by Dan Phillips Title: Philippians: A Mentor Commentary Author: Matthew S. Harmon Publisher: Christian Focus Publications Date: 2015 Backstory.Matt Harmon is professor of New Testament studies at Grace College and Grace Theological Seminary, in Winona Lake, Indiana. Harmon has contributed to various books and academic journals in the past, in the former category including a PYROMANIACS: SPURGEON'S PASTORAL WISDOM IN DEALING WITH A Spurgeon's pastoral wisdom in dealing with a woman lacking assurance. by Dan Phillips. I am re-listening to an audio version of Spurgeon's autobiography, and just (re-)heard an anecdote that delighted me. Being one who, as I've shared, has struggled mightily with assurance, it touched me to hear how Spurgeon dealt pastorally with a woman of PYROMANIACS: ONE ARMINIAN'S PROOF-TEXTS One Arminian's Proof-Texts. ere's an exchange of e-mail messages I had with an Arminian who wrote me to insist he had irrefutable arguments against the sovereignty of God in the salvation of sinners. It turned out he had a real gift for distilling Arminian presuppositions into neat sound-bites and supporting them with unusual proof-texts, but PYROMANIACS: A. W. PINK: GLORIFYING GOD BY DISOBEYING HIM?AW PINK WORKSAW PINK YOUTUBE by Dan Phillips I realize that A. W. Pink is a hero and beloved saint to many. His books, particularly The Sovereignty of God, have been very helpful for decades. For my part, I've never been a PYROMANIACS: SAMSON AND JESUS: STUDIES IN CONTRAST One might say that Samson was dedicated to God from the womb ( Judges 13:7 ), as was Christ ( Luke 1:35 ), but there the similarity ends. Samson's dedication was external and formal, Christ's was internal and real. Samson's outer strength belied a great and fatal weakness within; Christ's outer meakness belied literally infinite powerwithin.
PYROMANIACS: WHY CALVINISM NECESSITATES PREMILLENNIALISM The New Testament fulfills His covenant with Abraham. I know this is a rather over simplistic summary, but to say Calvinism necessitates premillennialism because premillennialism is the guardian of God’s preserving covenant with Israel is to miss the teaching of FILTHY CALVINISTS, AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE TO HATE THEM Filthy Calvinists, and the people who love to hate them. by Frank Turk. Before the real antics begin today, our friends at Triablogue have digitally-published a book called The Infidel Delusion to respond to John Loftus' cadre of sad-faced clowns' most recent book, the Christian Delusion -- because it's the Christians, you see, whoslavishly
PYROMANIACS: VIRTUAL COMMUNION? In practice, however, "virtual communion" services do confuse people—or worse. Saddleback Church, for example, has embraced the idea of "virtual communion." In an email message to church members during Passion Week, Rick Warren wrote, "Last weekend, thousands of our members participated in this tradition at home in our first onlineCommunion
PYROMANIACS: SHOWING THE SPIRIT BY D.A. CARSON So in 1996 1987, Carson also published a lengthy treatise on 1 Cor 12-14, entitled Showing the Spirit.Over the last 3 weeks, it has found new life among those who demand the necessity of the apostolic spiritual gifts, and the word on the street is that this book has never properly been reviewed or refuted by anyone of a Cessationist disposition, therefore Check and Mate: start speaking in tongues. PYROMANIACS: “WHAT WEAK CREATURES WE ARE!" Psalm 119:67. Often our trials act as a thorn-hedge to keep us in the good pasture; but our prosperity is a gap through which we go astray. If any of us remember a time in which we had no trouble, we also probably recollect that then grace was low, and temptation was strong. It may be that some believer cries, “Oh that it were with me as in PYROMANIACS: "WHAT'S YOUR NAME?" Sharon said. I can echo what you said, having worked on the GCC staff for almost 40 years, now. God has blessed John mightily, and I thank the Lord for this pastor at whose church I, as an unbeliever in 1971, learned about Jesus Christ, repented, believed, and sat under his ministry (and the ministry of his father, Dr. Jack MacArthur) for almost his entire tenure at Grace Church. PYROMANIACS: THE RISE OF WOKER-THAN-THOU EVANGELICALISM Evangelical thought leaders boast of their wokeness and vie with one another to be woker-than-thou. In many ways, today's Woke Evangelicals are merely an echo of their Emergent forebears. The central threads of their rhetoric are identical, and many of their goals are similar—starting with their campaign to convince other evangelicalsthat
PYROMANIACS: I WALK THE LINE To know that someone in the church is guilty of spiritual or sexual abuse and fail to deal with it—whether deliberately or by neglect—is to abdicate one of the essential duties of a shepherd (namely, the duty of guarding the flock against predators). It's tantamount to the negligence of a hireling; it is not the work of atrue shepherd
PYROMANIACS: PAUL AND CULTURE Paul was using sanctified sarcasm when he started out by observing how religious they were. Now, their culture, like ours, had all the trappings of religion, and they were omnipresent: temples on every corner, idols, priests and priestesses, and lots of superstitions and deeply-ingrained traditions. FILTHY CALVINISTS, AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE TO HATE THEM Filthy Calvinists, and the people who love to hate them. by Frank Turk. Before the real antics begin today, our friends at Triablogue have digitally-published a book called The Infidel Delusion to respond to John Loftus' cadre of sad-faced clowns' most recent book, the Christian Delusion -- because it's the Christians, you see, whoslavishly
PYROMANIACS: OPEN LETTER TO CHRIS ROSEBROUGH And I knew I have most of the open letters I had to write lined out for me for the rest of the year. To keep the "open" readers of this letter fully informed, Warren's bit.ly link is to this blog post from Thabiti Anyabwile which outlines the massive failures of the Multi-Site church movement. But as I made a mental list of the open letters I had to write based on this tweet from Warren via PYROMANIACS: WAS SPURGEON KJVO? And in his autobiography, recounting the laying of the foundation-stone of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Spurgeon explains why they chose a Grecian design for the building: "Greek is the sacred tongue, and Greek is the Baptist's tongue; we may be beaten in our own version , sometimes; but in Greek, never" ( Autobiography,vol. 2, p. 327).
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“WHAT WEAK CREATURES WE ARE!" YOUR WEEKLY DOSE OF SPURGEON The PYROMANIACS devote some space each weekend to highlights from the lifetime of works from the Prince of Preachers, Charles Haddon Spurgeon. The following excerpt is from The Golden Alphabet, pages 150-151, Pilgrim Publications. BEFORE I WAS AFFLICTED I WENT ASTRAY: BUT NOW HAVE I KEPT THY WORD.PSALM 119:67
Often our trials act as a thorn-hedge to keep us in the good pasture; but our prosperity is a gap through which we go astray. If any of us remember a time in which we had no trouble, we also probably recollect that then grace was low, and temptation was strong. It may be that some believer cries, “Oh that it were with me as in those summer days before I was afflicted!” Such a sigh is most unwise, and arises from a carnal love of ease: the spiritual man who prizes growth in grace will bless God that those dangerous days are over, and that if the weather be more stormy it is also more healthy. It is well when the mind is open and candid, as in this instance: perhaps David would never have known and confessed his own strayings if he had not smarted under the rod. Let us join in his humble acknowledgments, for doubtless we have imitated him in hisstrayings.
Why is it that a little ease works in us so much disease? Can we never rest without rusting? Never be filled without waxing fat? Never rise as to one world without going down as to another? What weak creatures we are to be unable to bear a little pleasure! What base hearts are those which turn the abundance of God’s goodness into an occasion for sin! ------------------------- Labels: Dose of Spurgeon Posted by Kerry James Allen on Sunday, July 21, 201914 JULY 2019
HOME SPUN WISDOM
YOUR WEEKLY DOSE OF SPURGEON The PYROMANIACS devote some space each weekend to highlights from the lifetime of works from the Prince of Preachers, Charles Haddon Spurgeon. The following excerpt is from John Ploughman's Talk, pages 92-94, Pilgrim Publications. "HUSBANDS SHOULD TRY TO MAKE HOME HAPPY AND HOLY." It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest, a bad man who makes his home wretched. Our house ought to be a little church, with holiness to the Lord over the door, but it ought never to be a prison where there is plenty of rule and order, but little love and no pleasure. Married life is not all sugar, but grace in the heart will keep away most ofthe sours.
Godliness and love can make a man, like a bird in a hedge, sing among thorns and briers, and set others a singing, too. It should be the husband’s pleasure to please his wife, and the wife’s care to care for her husband. He is kind to himself who is kind to his wife. I am afraid some men live by the rule of self, and when that is the case, home happiness is a mere sham. When husbands and wives are well yoked, how light their load becomes! It is not every couple that is a pair, and the more's the pity. In a true home all the strife is which can do the most to make the family happy. A home should be a Bethel, not a Babel. The husband should be the houseband, binding all together like a corner stone, but not crushing everything like a mill-stone. Unkind and domineering husbands ought not to pretend to be Christians, for they act clean contrary to Christ’s commands. Yet a home must be well ordered, or it will become a Bedlam and be a scandal to theparish.
If the father drops the reins, the family-coach will soon be in the ditch. A wise mixture of love and firmness will do it; but neither harshness nor softness alone will keep home in happy order. Home is no home where the children are not in obedience, it is rather a pain than a pleasure to be in it. Happy is he who is happy in his children, and happy are the children who are happy in their father. All fathers are not wise. Some are like Eli, and spoil their children. Not to cross our children is the way to make a cross of them. Those who never give their children the rod, must not wonder if their children become a rod to them. Solomon says, “Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight to thy soul.” I am not clear that anybody wiser than Solomon lives in our time, though some think they are. Young colts must be broken in, or they will make wild horses. Some fathers are all fire and fury, filled with passion at the smallest fault; this is worse than the other, and makes home a little hell instead of a heaven. No wind makes the miller idle, but too much upsets the mill altogether. Men who strike in their anger generally miss their mark. When God helps us to hold the reins firmly, but not to hurt the horses’ mouths, all goes well. When home is ruled according to God’s Word, angels might be asked to stay a night with us, and they would not find themselves out of theirelement.
Labels: Dose of Spurgeon Posted by Kerry James Allen on Sunday, July 14, 201907 JULY 2019
TURN AWAY
YOUR WEEKLY DOSE OF SPURGEON The PYROMANIACS devote some space each weekend to highlights from the lifetime of works from the Prince of Preachers, Charles Haddon Spurgeon. The following excerpt is from The Golden Alphabet, page 96, Pilgrim Publications. “TURN AWAY MINE EYES FROM BEHOLDING VANITY; AND QUICKEN THOU ME IN THY WAY.” PSALM 119:37 “_Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity._” He had prayed about his heart, and one would have thought that the eyes would so surely have been influenced by the heart that there was no need to make them the objects of a special petition; but our author is resolved to make assurance doubly sure. If the eyes do not see, perhaps the heart may not desire: at any rate, one door of temptation is closed when we do not even look at the painted bauble. Sin first entered man’s mind by the eye, and it is still a favourite gate for the incoming of Satan’s allurements; hence the need of a double watch upon that portal. The prayer is not so much that the eyes may be shut as _“turned away”;_ for we need to have them open, but directed to right objects. Perhaps we are now gazing upon folly, we need to have our eyes turned away; and if we are beholding heavenly things, we shall be wise to beg that our eyes may be kept away from vanity. Why should we look on vanity?—it melts away as a vapour. Why not look upon things eternal? Sin is vanity, unjust gain is vanity, self-conceit is vanity, and, indeed, all that is not of God comes under the same head. From all this we must turn away. It is a proof of the sense of weakness felt by the Psalmist and of his entire dependence upon God, that he even asks to have his eyes turned for him; he meant not to make himself passive, but he intended to set forth his own utter helplessness apart from the grace of God. For fear he should forget himself and gaze with a lingering longing upon forbidden object, he entreats the Lord speedily to make him turn away his eyes, hurrying him off from so dangerous a parley with iniquity. If we are kept from looking on vanity we shall be preserved from loving iniquity. ------------------------- Labels: Dose of Spurgeon Posted by Kerry James Allen on Sunday, July 07, 201930 JUNE 2019
DID YOU SET OUT BUT NOT HOLD OUT? YOUR WEEKLY DOSE OF SPURGEON The PYROMANIACS devote some space each weekend to highlights from the lifetime of works from the Prince of Preachers, Charles Haddon Spurgeon. The following excerpt is from the MTP, volume 14, sermon number 843, "Effectual calling." "BRETHREN, IT IS NO CHILD'S PLAY TO BE A CHRISTIAN." Many have I known who have had a call of a certain sort, who have tried to go to Canaan and yet to stop at Haran. They would fain serve God and yet live as they used to live. They think it possible to be a Christian and yet to be a servant of the world. They attempt the huge impossibility of yoking the Lion of the tribe of Judah and the lion of the pit in the same chariot, and driving through the streets of lifetherewith.
Ah, sirs! the call which comes from God brings a man right out, while the call which only comes to your fleshly nature leaves us with the rest of mankind, and will leave us there to be bound up in the same bundle with sinners, and cast into the same fire. Many come out of Egypt but never arrive at Canaan, like the children of Israel who left their carcasses in the wilderness, their hearts are not sound towardsthe Lord.
They start fairly, but the taste of the garlic and the onions lingers in their mouth, and holds their minds by Egypt’s fleshpots still. Like the planets, they are affected by two impulses: one would draw them to heaven, but another would drive them off at a tangent to the world; and so they revolve, like the mill-horse, without making progress; continuing still nominally to fear the Lord, and yet to serve other gods practically and in their hearts. Beware, dear friends, of the call which makes you _set _out, but does not lead you to _hold_ out. Pray that this text may be true to you, “They went forth to go into the land of Canaan, and to the land of Canaan they came.” Do not be content with praying to be saved, never be satisfied until you are saved. Do not be content with trying to believe and trying to repent; come to Christ, and both repent and believe, and give no slumber to your eyelids till you are a penitent believer. Make a full and complete work of your believing. Strive not to reach the strait gate, but to enter it. For this you must have a call from the Lord of heaven. I can call you as I have called many of you scores of times, and you have gone a little way, and you have bidden fair to go the whole way; but when your goodness has been as a morning cloud and as the early dew, it soon has been scattered and has gone. God grant you yet to receive the call of his eternal Spirit, that you may be saved. ------------------------- Labels: Dose of Spurgeon Posted by Kerry James Allen on Sunday, June 30, 201924 JUNE 2019
THE COMPLEMENTARIAN RESPONSIBILITY TOWARD WOMENby Hohn Cho
fter 13 years of ministry alongside college-and-career-aged single folks, I've witnessed and counseled and comforted more than my share, perhaps, of dear people who have suffered from the tragedy of sexual and physical abuse. And in a culture that is seemingly degrading by the day, especially sexually, it should not surprise us that we are seeing more and more reports of it, even within the church, sadly. I laid out numerous examples in paragraph 12 of a previous blog post,
and since that time we've seen moreand more
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examples, including one from earlier this week at Matt Chandler'sVillage Church
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Interestingly, that last article appeared to validate certain concerns that I and others have raised previously about the "Ministry Safe" organization, particularly the dangers associated with possible conflicts of interest and institutional bias. On a brighter note, also earlier this week, the SBC sexual abuse advisory group released its "Caring Well"
report. Although I don't agree with everything and continue to be concerned that terms such as "abuse" and "spiritual abuse" are too vague to be helpful, the report has many helpful points, and appears to represent some positive movement. In particular, I appreciated large portions of pages 17-22, which included this sobering view from Rachael Denhollander, "Predators often target faith communities because our mishandling of sexual assault means that churches are one of the safest places for predators to flourish", as well as some reasons why that could be, explained under subheadings such as: * Failure to Recognize and Value God's Image in Every Person * Failure in Understanding the Doctrine of Sin * Misapplication of Confession, Repentance, and Forgiveness of Sin * Confusion Over Doctrine of the Church * Misunderstanding that Sexual Abuse is Not Only Sin—But a Crime * Misunderstanding of Church Autonomy And while of course not every church in the SBC or the United States might be guilty of these theological failures, one needs only to consider the average state of biblical literacy and understanding across American evangelicalism as a whole to realize that the list is probably pretty spot-on. Indeed, having read many dozens if not hundreds of articles and stories on the topic, themes such as "I was pressured to keep this within the church" with little thought to the protection of the governing authorities in Romans 13 and 1 Peter 2, and "my pastor told me I had to forgive" with no regard for genuine repentance in 2 Corinthians 7, are so common as to be nigh-constant. Meanwhile, all of this is happening against the backdrop of a parallel conversation in evangelicalism, specifically the issue of complementarianism vs. egalitarianism relating to women in leadership roles within the church. The secular Washington Post has summarized the recent discussion in a way that links the two issues, and speaking as a staunch complementarian, I agree with that linkage in oneimportant way.
COMPLEMENTARIAN CHURCHES OUGHT TO BE THE SAFEST PLACES FOR WOMEN Whenever we look at human authority structures in the Bible, we see a dynamic between the one in authority and the ones under authority. The ones under authority are to submit to the one in authority—but the one in authority should be _TREMBLING_ under the weight and responsibility that the Word of God places upon those in authority. Some patriarchal Christians might be quick to point out the three verses dealing with the wife's submission to her own husband inEphesians 5:22-24 ,
but then downplay the next _SIX_ verses in Ephesians 5:25-30dealing with the
husband's sacrificial (even unto death itself) obligations to his own wife. Parents might be eager for their children to memorize Colossians3:20 , and yet
conveniently forget that Colossians 3:21 commands parents not to provoke their children. Bosses might be thrilled that servants are to be subject even to unjust managers with all respect as it says in 1Peter 2:18 , but
nevertheless the masters are commanded to treat their servants justly and fairly in Colossians 4:1 . Governing authorities might shout "obey" to its citizens per Romans 13:1-2, but woe to those
authorities if they fail to approve the good and avenge God's wrath upon the wrongdoers per Romans 13:3-4.
And when it comes to the church, the language is arguably the strongest of all. Jesus in Matthew 20:25-28clearly told the
disciples that followers of Christ must not lord it over others the way the rulers of the Gentiles did, but rather that they must be servants, and the one desiring to be first among them must be a slave, following in the example of Jesus Himself, who came not to be served, but to serve. This archetypical example of servant leadership is a radical departure from both the authoritarian leadership styles of the Romans, as well as most concepts of leadership today, whether in the United States generally or even in much of the evangelical church,sadly.
One needs only to consider the example of certain high-profile Christian leaders—and in many cases, their sad falls—to see this borne out time and time again. Whether it's the heavy-handed leadership of Mark Driscoll, who charmingly referred to wives as homesfor penises
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or Doug Phillips, who was disgraced and then sued for the sadly all-too-banal story of grooming and seducing his family's nanny,
or Paige Patterson, who in a _SERMON_ approved of a 16-year-old girl being referred to as "built" and in another incident told his head of security that he wanted to meet with a rape victim alone so that he could "break her down" (presumably an aggressive cross-examination of her testimony), or James MacDonald, who set up photos of some of his fellow elders' wives to use as target practice, with the ones
most troublesome to him apparently designated for higher point values. Based on many reports, in all of these men's organizations, they appeared to demonstrate all of the authority and none of the servanthood—and it showed in their attitudes toward women. The Scriptures on the nature of leadership in the church don't end there, of course. Elders are to rule well over the local church, as it says in 1 Timothy 5:17 , and their very name is essentially interchangeable with the word _overseer._ And from Hebrews 13:17 , we see that congregants are indeed to obey and submit to their elders. But the nature of the rule and oversight that congregants are to follow is the very servant leadership described by Jesus in Matthew 20:25-28and Mark 10:42-45
, and the weight of that is further established by the very same Hebrews 13:17that talks about
submission to the elders—because those elders are going to give an account before _GOD HIMSELF_ for how they kept watch over the souls God placed under the elders' care. Reinforcing this point, 1 Peter 5:1-4commands elders to
shepherd the flock of God, willingly and not under compulsion or for shameful gain, and explicitly _NOT_ domineering but as an example, once again bringing to mind Jesus and the servant leader. Indeed, as we search through Scripture for what elders are to do, it sounds like a whole lot of service and precisely the opposite of _Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous_. Elders are to preach and teach and even rebuke those who contradict sound doctrine, a necessary task, but one that is often arduous and hardly enjoyable, except perhaps for the pugnacious and quarrelsome (who ought to be disqualified from eldership in any event). Elders are to pray, and tend to the sick, and care for the church of God, and shepherd the flock for whom they are accountablebefore the Lord.
Speaking from my own experience as a lay elder, it is a blessed and joyful task, and a deeply fulfilling one, but it is also an enormous amount of work, and I'm truly grateful for treasure laid up in Heaven, because it certainly isn't a source of material profit. On some levels, I believe complementarian leadership in the church would be quite a bit less controversial if the focus were more on the endurance and perseverance needed for the often inconspicuous and sometimes thankless tasks of shepherding and caring for the flock and the least of these, and not at all on the (mostly) American phenomenon of the glamorous and successful "celebrity" Christian preacher. OPENING YOUR MOUTH FOR THE MUTE And as we do shepherd and care for the flock and the least of these, complementarians should remember that yes, 1 Corinthians 14:34says what it
says, and yes, 1 Timothy 2:12 means what it means, and although these might be controversial topics today, the Scriptural words and concepts are not hard to understand—even if they are hard for some to bear. But as we consider the weighty Scriptural call for men to lead the church, we must also remember what that means with respect to the women. I have previously questionedthe
helpfulness of frequent attempts to apply Proverbs 31:8-9 to the larger "social justice" debate in the US, especially in light of the fact that in our age of social media, just about anyone can have a voice, and in our society of casual wealth that would be unimaginable in the Ancient Near East, just about no one is truly destitute. One obvious example of where Proverbs 31:8-9 would indeed apply are the untold millions of murdered unborn, who truly lack a voice (although they have a heartbeat) and are truly destitute (not only of material wealth, but also of basic human rights). But another example would be right here, where women as a matter of biblical structure are necessarily absent from the plurality of elders, and indeed, they are explicitly called to be silent. In these cases, should we not be vigilant to apply Proverbs 31:8-9, and speak up for
their rights and defend their interests? This could of course take many different forms, but in a (largely) peaceful and wealthy society where neither murder nor death are lurking around every corner, should we not be especially watchful and protective, then, in the area of physical and sexual abuse, which sadly runs rampant throughout oursociety?
In a previous article,
I mentioned how in 2016, actually reported cases of rapes and sexual assaults numbered nearly 300,000, while domestic violence incidents were over 1,000,000. Underlying those horrifying statistics is the sad reality that only a fraction of each type of crime is reported, and that when one considers the terrible human cost of this suffering as it ripples outward, sometimes compounded down through the third and fourth generation, the direct and indirect impacts of these grievous and sinful crimes are far, far worse than the sterile numbers indicate. So often, Christian men say they would defend Christian women from any physical threat, even with their own lives. I honestly trust this is usually a genuine sentiment, and not mere lip service. And so here is an area that presents a perfect opportunity to livethis out.
Are you, complementarian man, approachable if someone that you care about has a secret to disclose that she deems to be sensitive, shameful, or even sinful? And what will your response be if she recounts an event of physical or sexual abuse? Remember, complementarian pastor, in our dealings with women, 1 Timothy 5:2would have us treat
older women as mothers and younger women as sisters. So if your own biological mother or sister came to you with such a recounting, what would your first reaction be? I know mine would likely be to strive to mortify my immediate outrage and thirst for vengeance, before offering as much comfort and tangible assistance as I could, including reporting the matter to the governing authorities (which might even be a legal requirement, depending on your jurisdiction) and helping her to seek justice, _REGARDLESS OF WHO THE ALLEGED PERPETRATOR WAS_. Speaking as a lawyer, this does not mean we throw out the idea of due process, of course, nor does it necessarily even mean #BelieveAllWomen in the ideological or political sense of that hashtag. What I'm talking about is more along the lines of bearing your fellow Christian's burden, mourning with those who mourn, and remembering that pastors and elders are neither the governing authorities with respect to crimes, nor the investigating detective, nor the cross-examining lawyer on the case. Proverbs 18:13, 17
would indeed tell us that the accused has his own story to tell, and he should absolutely have the opportunity to tell it. It may be, however, that you, complementarian leader, will not be the one to hear or adjudicate thatstory.
As men, we are sometimes inclined to put ourselves in the shoes of the accused and sympathize with him, even as specific false accusations from the past spring to our mind in a type of confirmation bias . But the reality is that the most credible studieshave shown a
range of only 2-10% of rape accusations being demonstrated later to be false. If you think without any supporting evidence that those statistics are fake news, well, go ahead and triple that range, sheerly for the sake of argument, and the reality would still be that the great majority of rape accusations are at least somewhatplausible.
It grieves me, then, when I hear of cases where the churchman immediately springs to protect the accused rather than the accuser, or pushes cheap grace upon the tangibly wronged, or even worse, tries to cover the crime up via pressure for silence—especially when the accused is a man of influence within the church. But simply because a man is successful or respected in the community, that does not mean he is incapable of horrific sins or crimes. Deep down, I think many of us really do know that, because whenever fathers have daughters, we're typically going to warn them against the ulterior or even dark motives of guys in general, since back when we were single, quite a few of us_WERE_ those guys.
DISTINGUISHING OURSELVES FROM THE WORLD I hope all of this has been relatively straightforward, because at the risk of sounding naïve, I really don't think it should be especially controversial to us as Bible-believing Christians. I also believe that a proper complementarianism that cherishes and treasures and looks out for the rights and interests of women can be an amazing way to distinguish ourselves from the secular world. Part of this will be in the area of attitude. It would be perverse, after all, for a man's heart attitude toward the biblical structure of complementarianism to be, "Yeah, we get to keep those wimminfolk down!" And may I humbly submit that in light of our fallen, sinful nature and the inevitable stumbling blocks relating to pride for those in leadership, perhaps we could even use a bit less, "Now let's go forth boldly as MEN and go do a bunch of manlike leader-man things," and a bit more time in earnest on-our-knees prayer for the weight of this responsibility and what it might truly mean for those under our spiritual care. By the way, I am indeed aware that we live in a gender-confused society, and yes, I still stand by what I just said, because first, it should not require a macho caricature of biblical masculinity to show a contrast with the world, and second, no matter what the world might look like, biblically we are all still called to humility and servanthood and sacrifice all through Scripture (Philippians 2:3-4being one of the
most obvious and clear, and one of my absolute favorites). In the face of a Roman Empire full of sexual immorality and confusion, Christian men led, and the Gospel spread, by standing for the truth via a willingness to suffer and even die under persecution, and not by becoming political culture warriors. And on that note, I'd much rather see one tangible and sacrificial _ACT_ of biblical manhood, than a hundred tweets full of empty words or even worse, chest-poundingbravado about it.
In the secular world, we see an increasingly pornified culture where women are objectified and commodified and degraded and pressured to indulge in every form of perversion, existing right alongside fourth-wave feminism and the #MeToo movement and all of their supposed attempts to empower women and eliminate gender differences. The contradictions and confusion inherent in these worldviews that lack an ultimate purpose like pursuing Jesus Christ and an objective anchor like the Word of God are patently obvious, especially when we see so much subjectivity that half of the feminists seem to glorify porn while the other half seem to reject it. Meanwhile, as I've said in prior comments, everywhere we look, women seem to lose out whenever they're stacked against any other identity or interest group, such as ethnicity,
national origin and immigration,
Islam
,
or more recently transgenderism.
Even in an area that would seem like a slam-dunk such as female genital mutilation, a barbaric and cruel practice with zero medical and health benefits, this society simply is not standing up for women like it could and should. It must not be this way in Christianity. What an opportunity we have to demonstrate a church culture that cherishes, values, and protects women, because the _BIBLE_ commands us to cherish, value, and protectwomen
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That is my prayer for the church universal, and that is how I would strive to serve any church where I might have the immense and weighty privilege to help as a servant leader, including my own beloved local church. And that is my prayer for your church as well, dear reader. ------------------------- In 2015, Chandler and his elders at the Village Church also received criticism for their treatment of another woman, Karen Hinkley, a former missionary whose then-husband had admitted to possession of child pornography as part of a long-standing indulgence in pedophilic desires. The Village Church's church discipline of Hinkley and subsequent apology to her have been widely reported,including here
(with paywall) and here (without paywall, although from a secular publisher that has been hostile previously to biblical Christianity, so read withdiscernment).
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SPURGEON ON WOMEN PREACHING YOUR WEEKLY DOSE OF SPURGEON The PYROMANIACS devote some space each weekend to highlights from the lifetime of works from the Prince of Preachers, Charles Haddon Spurgeon. The following excerpts are from the original sources cited therewith. When Boswell told Johnson one day that he had heard a woman preach that morning at a Quaker's meeting, Johnson replied, "Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on its hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." We will add that our surprise is all the greater when women of piety mount the pulpit, for they are acting in plain defiance of the command of the Holy Spirit, written by the pen of the Apostle Paul. _Feathers for Arrows, page 260, Pilgrim Publications._ Peter’s wife’s mother did not get out of bed and go down the street and deliver an address to an assembled multitude. Women are best when they are quiet. I share the apostle Paul’s feelings when he bade women be silent in the assembly. Yet there is work for holy women, and we read of Peter’s wife’s mother that she arose and ministered to Christ. She did what she could and what she should. She arose and ministered to him. Some people can do nothing that they are allowed to do, but waste their energies in lamenting that they are not called on to do other people’s work. Blessed are they who do what they should do. It is better to be a good housewife, or nurse, or domestic servant, than to be a powerless preacher or a graceless talker. She did not arise and prepare a lecture, nor preach a sermon, but she arose and prepared a supper, and that was what she was fitted to do. Was she not a housewife? As a housewife let her serve the Lord. I do not say that if you were converted a week ago you are at once to preach. No: but you are to minister to the Lord in the way for which you are best qualified, and that may happen to be by a living testimony to his grace in your daily calling. We greatly err when we dream that only a preacher can minister to the Lord—for Jesus has work of all sorts for all sorts of followers. Paul speaks of women who helped him much, and, assuredly, as there is no idle angel there ought to be no idle Christian. We are not saved for our own sakes, but that we may be of service to the Lord and to his people; let us not miss our calling. _MTP, volume 31, sermon number 1,836, "First healing, and thenservice."_
In like manner, you Christian people who cannot talk,—the women especially,—I mean that you cannot preach, you are not allowed to preach,—I want you to shine. Some people seem to think that there is no shining without talking, whereas the very best shining is that of Christian women, who, if they have little to say, have a great deal todo.
They make the house so bright with heavenly grace, and decorate it so sweetly with the flowers of their cheerful piety, that those round about them are won to Christ by them. Therefore, shine, dear brothers and sisters, by your gracious godliness, for so you will bring gloryto God.
_MTP, volume 45, sermon number 2,617, "Shining Christians."_ Labels: Dose of Spurgeon Posted by Kerry James Allen on Sunday, June 23, 201916 JUNE 2019
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YOUR WEEKLY DOSE OF SPURGEON The PYROMANIACS devote some space each weekend to highlights from the lifetime of works from the Prince of Preachers, Charles Haddon Spurgeon. The following excerpt is from John Ploughman's Talk, pages 155-156, Pilgrim Publications. "I'VE KNOWN MEN WHO OPENED THEIR MOUTHS LIKE BARN DOORS IN BOASTING WHAT THEY WOULD DO IF THEY WERE IN SOMEONE ELSE'S SHOES." We must try to state the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. If we begin calling eleven inches a foot, we shall go on till we call one inch four-and-twenty. If we call a heifer a cow, we may one day call a dormouse a bullock. Once go in for exaggeration, and you may as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb; you have left the road of truth, and there is no telling where the crooked lane may lead youto.
He who tells little lies will soon think nothing of great ones, for the principle is the same. Where there is a mouse-hole, there will soon be a rat-hole; and if the kitten comes, the cat will follow. It seldom rains but it pours; a little untruth leads on to a perfectshower of lying.
Self-praise is no recommendation. A man’s praise smells sweet when it comes out of other men’s mouths, but in his own it stinks. Grow your own cherries, but don’t sing your own praises. Boasters are never worth a button with the shank off. Long tongue, short hand. Great talkers, little doers. Dogs that bark much run away when it is time to bite. The leanest pig squeaks most. It is not the hen which cackles most, that lays most eggs. Saying and doing are two different things. It is the barren cow that bellows. There may be great noise of threshing where there is no wheat. Great boast, little roast. Much froth, little beer. Drums sound loud because there is nothing in them. Good men know themselves too well to chant their own praises. Barges without cargoes float high on the canal; but the fuller they are, the lower they sink. Good cheese sells itself without puffery. Good wine needs no bush; and when men are really excellent, people find it out without telling. Bounce is the sign of folly. Loud braying reveals an ass. If a man is ignorant and holds his tongue, no one will despise him; but if he rattles on with an empty pate, and a tongue that brags like forty, he will write out his own name in capital letters, and they will bethese—F, O, O, L.
_As "by the ears the ass is known"— _ _A truth as sure as parsons preach, _ _"The man," as proverbs long have shown, _ _"Is seen most plainly through his speech."_ ------------------------- Labels: Dose of Spurgeon Posted by Kerry James Allen on Sunday, June 16, 2019Older Posts
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