Purify Your Bride

Some in my comment boxes brought up Mother Teresa’s alleged failure to evangelize. I was writing a response there and decided to move it up here: 
Mother Teresa did not try and convert people. She converted many but that was not her aim. She just wanted to show them God’s love. She realized that many would respond to […]

When you send a bunch of children outside to play it is a good idea to have a fence. If you don’t you need clear boundaries and consequences when those boundaries are crossed. Otherwise you will have some children run off too far and bad things can happen. But not all of them run off too […]

Lots of talk about Mother Teresa these days. It is amazing how many people are just totally confused by it. I guess we all need a reminder that suffering and doubt are not just things we go through because we are somehow defective. They are part of what the Christianwalk is meant to be. They […]

I am not sure what he was trying to prove posting the video clip in his reply to me. He does sound pretty impressive but so does the Jehovah’s Witness who comes to my door. Once I start asking questions I can poke holes in a lot of what he will say but until then they […]

James White has replied to my answer of his 10 questions: I am thankful to TurrentinFan for noting this response to my blog article providing ten questions for a potential convert to answer regarding their conversion process to Romanism.
   I have often pointed to the highly emotional nature of the vast majority of conversion stories to Rome, […]

James White published a top 10 questions he wants to ask a convert or potential convert. I thought I would bite. 
10) Have you listened to both sides? That is, have you done more than read Rome Sweet Home and listen to a few emotion-tugging conversion stories? Have you actually taken the time to find sound, […]

I guess I feel that there is a critical mass of public opinion that must be reached before we can expect to be effective in the passing of laws. I think the civil rights laws and laws against other activities like drunk driving and public smoking did require a huge shift in public opinion before […]

Kyl was commenting a bit on my last post. He brought up a few points by Dr Francis  Beckwith who has written a new book on the morality of abortion. Thanks for that Kyl. Some of the questions were around somebody, also named Frank, who saw abortion laws as bad. I was not saying that. […]

I wonder if we as Christians should even be trying to make abortion illegal. If we somehow get the judges we want in there to let us pass the laws it won’t end abortion. It will mean politicans who have hid behind Row v Wade for a long time will now have to deal with […]

Warren asks: After the apostles, who is qualified to teach?
Ken replies:  qualified elders/pastor-teachers/overseers - I Timothy 3, titus 1, Acts 14:21-23, Acts 13:1-4; Acts 20:17ff, I Peter 5:1-5
These verses mostly talk about presbtyrs. They should be qualified but many of these verses also say they were appointed.  This is always in the context of the […]

As part of this debate with Ken I ended up reading 1 Cor 11. The text about head coverings for women. Then I went to mass and the gospel was on Matt 19. The passage about divorce. It is interesting how God brings these things together. Paul talks about women having their heads covered and […]

I do think something needs to end the debate.
Again, what was Paul’s answer to factions and church divisions in I Corinthians 1:10-13 ff and especially 3:1-4:6. (Also, I Corinthians 11:18-19 and the fact that these same words for the sins of factions and party spirit and divisions are the ones in Galatians 5 that […]

My original post in blue. Ken’s reply in green. My response in purple. 
“As protestants we believed creating a schism was wrong unless you had a real good reason.”
NO. unless the teachers were teaching false doctrine or heresy or blasphemy or against the gospel. This is a higher standard than just “a real good reason”.
This […]

The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Gal 5:19-21
This was […]

My wife was lent a book with this title. It talks about being Catholic as a social and cultural phenomenon that often has very little to do with the catholic church. At some point in history the Catholicism imbedded itself very deeply in the life of the people. Then something happened. The salt of the earth […]