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The Bible clearly teaches sovereign election. God has a redeemed for himself a people unto salvation from his righteous wrath against sinners. The 1689 Second London Baptist Confession sums this up: By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his glory, some men...
Yesterday, the term and theological category “Same-Sex Attracted Christian” didn’t even exist. Now it’s everywhere — seemingly in every pulpit, at every conference, in every book, in every periodical, in every blog, on every podcast. The tsunami alarm has been slow to...
Jonathan Martin is an Emergent pastor out of Oklahoma City, OK and has authored several books published by Zondervan, including How To Survive a Shipwreck and Help is On The Way. Martin recently approached a group of open-air preachers in downtown Albuquerque, NM...
Pope Francis is right -- Catholics and Muslims most certainly worship the same God. But that's where the truth of his latest tweet ends. Today, Pope Francis tweeted, once again, another message of affirmation between Christians and Muslims, asserting that God created...
For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.Colossians 1:16 Christ is the focus of the apostle’s gaze in this text. He begins a...
Following a series of articles by Tom Buck at Alpha & Omega Ministries on a widely-accepted "gay Christian" ministry known as Living Out, Russell Moore and the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission have quietly removed their endorsement of the ministry from...
In Partnership with Tim Keller and other gay-friendly Evangelicals, Living Out has produced a pamphlet called How Biblically Inclusive is Your Church? which outlines 10 steps or recommendations you can use to audit your church for gay inclusiveness. Reformation...
RZIM Says We Can Trust Jesus With Our Gender Because Jesus Experienced a Body Mis-Match The road to full transgender and homosexual affirmation and inclusion in the Church is coming near full-stop -- as in, we're arriving. Through ministries such as Sam Allberry's...
Reformation Charlotte wrote an excellent article entitled “Abortion is Pagan Sacrifice.” The article was well written and backed by scripture. However, I can’t help but hear the skeptic say Aren’t all of those references referring to already born babies? Somehow...
How Should Christians Deal With Same-Sex Attraction? Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.John 7:24 Let me ask a hypothetical question about a hypothetical person. Let’s say this person is a twenty-seven-year-old man. Let’s name him Ralph for...
He strikes again. Dr. Leighton Flowers continues his crusade of undoing the influence reformed theology has on our churches today. Normally Dr. Flowers simply takes aim at Calvinism. Yet with this latest post, he takes a dig at Soli Deo Gloria. You can read the...
False teachers are everywhere -- they're a dime a dozen. The Bible tells us that in the last days, many false prophets will arise and mislead many (Matthew 24:11), and we see this taking place right before our eyes. In fact, you can hardly swing a dead cat without...
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.Matthew 11:28-30 After praising...
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has been long heralded as one of the last standing conservative denominations in the US. Beginning in 1979, through what was known as the “conservative resurgence” (also dubbed the Fundamentalist Takeover) of the SBC, headed up by...
Besides the obvious fact that the Roman Catholic institution is not a Christian institution to begin with, historically, at least in a public front, it has at least upheld basic principles of morality such as the heinousness of abortion and the detrimental effects of...
Jesus ate with homosexuals, so we should be accepting of them. That is the argument of the progressive gay militant propaganda machine that historically the Church found so absurd that it received little attention inside the ranks of orthodoxy. What the Church has...
The Church of England issued today a Pastoral Guidance document that instructs Anglican clergy to unconditionally welcome and affirm transgender people into the faith while addressing them by their chosen names and pronouns as opposed to their birth names....
If you haven't already heard, there is a new documentary film on the horizon that details, as the filmmaker, Dave Griffin puts it, the crisis of missions. Griffin says that when we survey the state of evangelical churches in the west and global missions as a whole it...
Heresy, or heretic, are not words that I generally drop lightly these days. I used to, but one thing I've learned over the years is to approach heresy -- especially within orthodox ranks -- with a tremendous amount of precision and care. After several years of...
There was a time when the old, the tried and true, were revered and honored as they've withstood the test of time. This is particularly true in the historic Christian Church. Theologians would always stand on the foundations of the preceding generations of tested...
This episode deals with the irreconcilable differences between the modern concept of African American slavery reparations and the Christian doctrines of divine grace and forgiveness.
BNG -- A Baptist church that meets on the campus of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, plans to ordain a transgender woman to the gospel ministry this Sunday. Erica Saunders, a 2019 master-of-divinity candidate at the Wake Forest University...
I have a confession to make, I hate kale. It is not that I simply do not prefer to eat it. It is not simply just another green thing I do not care to eat. No, I hate that evil seaweed. It is gross to my taste. The only way kale enters my body is through my wife hiding...
Preaching in the open air can be a frightening experience. It is frightening to stand out in front of others looking like a psycho to those walking along. People look at you with all sort of disdainful looks. Girls pass by laughing. Young men screech out inappropriate...
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Danny Akin, the president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (SEBTS) — one of the most prestigious Southern Baptist Seminaries — appeared on a podcast version of the seminary’s chapel messages last year to defend the Southern Baptist Convention’s adoption of...
Pastor Rob Buckingham of Bayside Church, a large Pentecostal megachurch in Melbourne, Australia, recently revealed a new "inclusion statement" the church now adheres to that accepts homosexuals into the congregation. The statement reads: At Bayside Church, we believe...
BREAKING: The United States Supreme Court has issued a ruling upholding a Texas law that bans most abortions after six weeks, currently the strictest in the nation. The lawsuit was filed by abortion providers in Texas who are arguing that the law is unconstitutional....
Christmas is a Christian holiday, no matter how you look at it. Spare me the arguments that it has Pagan origins and actually borrows from other festivals and was only later Christianized as a holiday. Let's just be real; without Christ, there never would have been a...
In the wake of an appearance on the HBO drag show, We're Here, the Rev. Craig Duke was relieved of his duties as pastor of Newburgh United Methodist Church. In a letter sent by Mitch Gieselman, superintendent of the South and Southwest Districts of the Indiana UMC...
The Bible gives us accounts of several cases in which God interacts with Satan or Satan's demonic minions. For example, we read this story in Job 1:6-12: "Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among...
Hillsong music has been soundly rejected by many top theologians including John MacArthur, Justin Peters, and many others on the basis that the music itself lacks not only theological substance, but that by purchasing or playing this music can only be translated into...
A ‘suicide machine’ has passed legal review in Switzerland and its maker hopes it will be available for use as early as next year. The 3D-printed ‘suicide machine’ was created by Philip Nitschke, founder of the suicide advocacy group Exit International, a proponent of...
"Am I a God at hand, declares the Lord, and not a God far away? Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the Lord." --Jeremiah 23:23-24 With the Scriptures, Christians have always...
A world-famous father that everyone seemed to love and respect was a violent, mean, raging man who often mistreated his son, especially during Christmas, but that almost unbelievable truth would not be revealed for decades after it could have made a difference....
Pastor Dennis Rouse of Victory World Church performed a highly cringeworthy stunt during a worship service where he called a black man out of the audience to come to get his feet washed. During the ridiculous stunt, the pastor explains to this guy that what he is...
Heresy: Hermeneutic of “Love” This will be, as always, a highly abbreviated summation of a much larger topic for the sake of awareness and information. It's impossible to do more than give a general sense in an article of this kind.For the Christian, “hermeneutics” is...
Danny Akin, the president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (SEBTS) — one of the most prestigious Southern Baptist Seminaries — appeared on a podcast version of the seminary’s chapel messages last year to defend the Southern Baptist Convention’s adoption of...
Pastor Rob Buckingham of Bayside Church, a large Pentecostal megachurch in Melbourne, Australia, recently revealed a new "inclusion statement" the church now adheres to that accepts homosexuals into the congregation. The statement reads: At Bayside Church, we believe...
BREAKING: The United States Supreme Court has issued a ruling upholding a Texas law that bans most abortions after six weeks, currently the strictest in the nation. The lawsuit was filed by abortion providers in Texas who are arguing that the law is unconstitutional....
Christmas is a Christian holiday, no matter how you look at it. Spare me the arguments that it has Pagan origins and actually borrows from other festivals and was only later Christianized as a holiday. Let's just be real; without Christ, there never would have been a...
In the wake of an appearance on the HBO drag show, We're Here, the Rev. Craig Duke was relieved of his duties as pastor of Newburgh United Methodist Church. In a letter sent by Mitch Gieselman, superintendent of the South and Southwest Districts of the Indiana UMC...
The Bible gives us accounts of several cases in which God interacts with Satan or Satan's demonic minions. For example, we read this story in Job 1:6-12: "Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among...
Hillsong music has been soundly rejected by many top theologians including John MacArthur, Justin Peters, and many others on the basis that the music itself lacks not only theological substance, but that by purchasing or playing this music can only be translated into...
A ‘suicide machine’ has passed legal review in Switzerland and its maker hopes it will be available for use as early as next year. The 3D-printed ‘suicide machine’ was created by Philip Nitschke, founder of the suicide advocacy group Exit International, a proponent of...
"Am I a God at hand, declares the Lord, and not a God far away? Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the Lord." --Jeremiah 23:23-24 With the Scriptures, Christians have always...
A world-famous father that everyone seemed to love and respect was a violent, mean, raging man who often mistreated his son, especially during Christmas, but that almost unbelievable truth would not be revealed for decades after it could have made a difference....
Pastor Dennis Rouse of Victory World Church performed a highly cringeworthy stunt during a worship service where he called a black man out of the audience to come to get his feet washed. During the ridiculous stunt, the pastor explains to this guy that what he is...
Heresy: Hermeneutic of “Love” This will be, as always, a highly abbreviated summation of a much larger topic for the sake of awareness and information. It's impossible to do more than give a general sense in an article of this kind.For the Christian, “hermeneutics” is...
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What do you get when you cross the Cows of Bashan with LifeWay's incessant need for cash? Beth Moore. Beth Moore has poured out more spiritual poison into more Southern Baptist women than any other false teacher in the history of modern Evangelicalism. And not only is...
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. Galatians 5:1 If you are a serious Christian who is pursuing holiness with all your heart you have probably been called a legalist...
One of the underlying tenets of Marxism is the radical transformation of mass thinking by implementing strategies that cause confusion and undermine the current paradigm. One of these strategies is the introduction of Black Liberation Theology which was popularized by...
There is a deep-rooted heresy that is gaining momentum in the Evangelical church today. The heresy is born out of Black Liberation Theology -- a theology popularized by James Cone that encourages blacks to use their religion to seek "liberation" from various forms...
LifeWay Christian Stores is the retail chain of the Southern Baptist Convention under the direction of Thom Rainer who has been under fire for many years for peddling heresy to Christians for cash. Previously, LifeWay announced that they would be closing "a number of...
Street preaching is a unique calling and definitely not for everyone. There is never a shortage of challenges hurled at the man on the box proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ. And why wouldn’t there be? To be sure, anytime the darkness is exposed to the...
The move toward homosexual inclusion in conservative churches has taken an unprecedented turn in the last few years -- one that the historic orthodox Church has never seen. Homosexuality was the one sin God found so egregious that it caused Him to wipe two entire...
There are many battlefronts Christians spread throughout the earth have been commissioned to engage. There are missionaries to unreached nations and there are Pastors called to disciple converted middle-class Americans. One frontline that I am vitally passionate about...
In this episode I offer up a very frank rant about the idea of reparations and whether or not such an idea can co-exist with the biblical doctrines of grace and forgiveness.
Southeastern Seminary is "woke." Danny Akin, its president, is "woke." The Southern Baptist Convention -- well, it's "woke." "Woke" is all the rage these days and if you're not "woke," you're not with it. Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (SEBTS) has an...
With familiar tunes and upbeat rhythms filling the sanctuaries in churches everywhere, Hillsong is by far the most popular producer of mainstream Christian music in the world. They mass produce music from their multi-campus world-wide bands under the labels Hillsong...
Reformation Charlotte has reported in the past on the "Drag Queen Story Hour" that is making its rounds around public libraries in the US. A popular appeal for progressives, parents take their children to be practically groomed for an hour at a public library by a...
I didn't say it. God said it. If you have a problem with it, take it up with God. If you're a believer, then you should believe that the entire Bible was written under the plenary inspiration of the Holy Spirit. That means, you believe the Bible is God's inerrant,...
Well, you know that there is never really anything new under the sun right? Be sure of it; nothing is, not even the concepts fronted by the TGC. The Gospel Coalition banded together as a fellowship of evangelical churches in around 2005. The main idea behind it was to...
Thabiti Anyabwile is the pastor of Anacostia River in Washington, D.C. and a council member for The Gospel Coalition. He is a leading voice in an aberrant movement in the visible Church that is calling for Christians to take up the cause of social justice, primarily...
Kris Vallotton, the Senior Associate Leader of Bethel Church in Redding, California, and co-founder of Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry believes that God wants you to have wealth. That “contrary to what we may have been taught,” wealth is actually a sign of...
In a recent sermon entitled, How the Fall Affects Us All, SBC President and pastor of the Summit Church in Raleigh, NC, J.D. Greear told his church that Christians must stand up for LGBT+ rights. The truth is that the sermon title is misleading. The sermon was...
A Biblical Examination of Mariolatry From Rome's Official Sources One of the points of controversy that is still acknowledged between biblical Protestants and the Church of Rome is over "mariolatry," or the place of Mary, the Mother of Jesus. I want to examine what...
https://reformedreasons.com/2019/03/16/would-jesus-be-a-democrat/
Any sane person with a shred of common sense with an IQ higher than the average fish can read the Bible and clearly see that it teaches homosexuality is against God's law. The discord isn't over this clear fact, but on whether or not what the Bible teaches is true. In...
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, I want to pour my heart out about something. This is a hard pill to swallow, but if we do not realize this truth we may never find the freedom we have in Christ. It’s not the porn industry’s fault that you watch porn, it’s yours....
Southeastern Seminary's Slide into Progressivism Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (SEBTS) is one of the premier vehicles for aspiring pastors and theologians to join the endless ranks of social justice warriors in Evangelicalism today. Through its Office of...
God's Regulation of Worship And his mother said, “Blessed be my son by the Lord.” And he restored the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother. And his mother said, “I dedicate the silver to the Lord from my hand for my son, to make a carved image...
Humanity Refuses to Believe God In the book of Numbers, chapter 13, God instructs Moses to select a leader from each of the tribes of Israel to send them into the land of Canaan for the purpose of gathering intelligence. When they returned from the intelligence...
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