A Paper on Total Depravity

             In my English class, we were given a block of reading from the introduction of James Sire’s Discipleship of the Mind, and write a reaction to it. Not that I’m trying to be overly in-your-face about my theology in my first year, but when I saw that Sire dealt with the question “What is a [...]

Not Alone

Feeble my stance, when I’m standing alone. I’ve run back to sin and regarded it home. I’ve taken my heart and disguised it as stone. But Christ will not leave me alone. Fleeing to live out this life on my own. A sheep oh so desperately prone yet to roam. On grace I will fling [...]

God is Sovereign… even when your truck is on fire!

            So, I was sitting in my truck, under a shade tree, during my lunch hour enjoying the nice air conditioning. We had a “Lunch and Learn” Wednesday at my work, which really only means free chicken to me. Well, it just so happened that, in my daily reading, I came across this from Living [...]

ALL of Grace

                For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for [...]

A Trembling Young Man Stands Up In Southlake

          Well, yet another amazing night of open air preaching. This time we met at the church’s regular spot, Southlake Town Center, in Southlake, TX. I haven’t been able to go for a couple of weeks due to responsibilities that needed to be taken care of both in the Army and in my family.           [...]

Monergism is Leading Me into Temptation

Is it a sin to covet the word of God?

The Love of God Found Only in the Justification of God

The love of God is most vividly seen when His justifying grace is bestowed upon an individual who is damned for eternity.

Shall We Pray for Contentment or Deliverance?

            I’ve been batting around the idea of how to balance Christianity with politics for the past few months. On the one side, I know that we are not to rely on the schemes of men for our salvation from this current judgment that we are experiencing. On the other side of the coin, I [...]

I Asked the Lord that I Might Grow

by John Newton I asked the Lord that I might grow In faith, and love, and every grace; Might more of His salvation know, And seek, more earnestly, His face. ’Twas He who taught me thus to pray, And He, I trust, has answered prayer! But it has been in such a way, As almost [...]

Come Trials! Come Tribulation!

            As an amillennialist, I am inclined to believe that the tribulation is currently going on, as it has been since the beginning of the church age. We Americans do not recognize it, because we are not in it. Rather, we have created a post-millennialist pseudo-utopia, from which we convince ourselves that the suffering that [...]