Praying in Tongues Today is Biblical
In this video, Daniel Kolenda discusses biblical tongues. He addresses other concerns over ideas presented in the recent Cessationist movie and more in this Refuting Cessationism playlist.
Thoughts
Some of Charmy's musings, research, and other content. Not all posts endorsed as truth.
Once Saved Always Saved?
This offers a balanced overview of the various perspectives on eternal security. I appreciate his conclusion that believers should maintain unity despite differences in opinion.
His discussion with David Allen is quite intriguing too.
Where is the throne of David? - Travis M Snow
An internally consistent hermeneutic requires that Jesus will reign from David's throne in Jerusalem, just as David, Peter, Luke et al. predicted. Supersessionists, amillennialists, and post-millennialists assume that the throne of David has been moved to heaven, and that the ascension of Christ fulfills the Davidic promises. But the biblical text never says anything of the sort. - Travis Snow
Acts 1:6; Psalm 16:8-11; Acts 2:25-28; Acts 2:30-32; Psalm 110:1-2; Acts 2:33-35; Acts 2:36; Acts. 3:18-21; Luke 1:32-33; Psalm 110:4; Psalm 110:5-7.
Mutual Submission or Ordered Hierarchy? Ephesians 5 (Part Two)
Good article on ὑποτασσόμενοι ἀλλήλοις.
Mutual Submission or Ordered Hierarchy? Ephesians 5 (Part Two)
My Thoughts so Far on Mike Winger’s Women in Ministry Series
Inductive Bible Study
Did Eve Add to God's Word or Not?
Did Eve sin before she ate the fruit?
Submission and the Origin of Authority
Submission is an attitude all believers should have toward each other out of reverence for Christ.
Submission and the origin of authority
While egalitarians generally will agree that submission is a characteristic of Spirit-filled Christians who love and respect the body of Christ, and who serve each other with love, complementarians say that husbands are never commanded to submit to their wives because husbands maintain a God-given sphere of authority that requires sacrifice and not submission. To a complementarian, submission is always something given to an authority.
Spiritual Gifts and Authority
The teaching of ownership, authority, or subordination to another person has no place in the body of Christ.
"While authority to operate in our gifts has been given to us, nowhere in scripture is authority given as a power to use over someone else...in the church, authority is only given as an authority to serve and authority to use our gifts. It is never given to be used to take control over another person in the church. The Christian way is service."
Spirit-Filled Relationships (video)
...be filled with the Spirit. ~ Ephesians 5:18b
🔥🔥 This is powerful preaching. This 3-part series on Ephesians 5-6 is called Spirit-Filled Relationships.
May the Lord foster an attitude of "standing under" in all of our hearts.
Preaching by Darrell Johnson, First Baptist Church (2011)
I pray the Lord will bless many with this message.
False Authority by Wade Burleson
Picked up a new book! As usual, before I've finished the last (the list is growing)! Posting this here to keep track of any highlights I might make.
False Authority by Wade Burleson
BaalGate and Infant Damnation
A response the discussion of infant damnation (#BaalGate) on Twitter.
And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. - Matthew 18:3–5 KJV
Christian Women and Leadership in the Church and Home
Ryan has compiled some biblically faithful exegesis of common passages about gender and leadership in the church and home.
(Note that you must have an account or you won’t be able to see the thread. There is a lot of content to click through!).
John MacArthur and Calvinism
Brian discusses issues with Calvinism & the doctrine of total depravity.
The UnSunday Show by Mike Adams
The UnSunday Show is hosted by Mike Adams, who describes himself as "a former pastor who left institutional religion in 2009 for a clearer view of Jesus, apart from religious obligations." The podcast explores how ekklesia, the new covenant, grace were distorted by the institution of hierarchy (clergy/laity) in early church history.
This top-down authority structure denies the priesthood of all believers and has enabled abuse in the church for many centuries.
An early episode:
Grace Cafe Podcast: Did Paul Command Women to be Silent in Church?
New Podcast series featuring Mike Adams and his wife: The Grace Cafe Podcast
Non-spotify listening:
Patriarchy and its affects on Women and Men
Did Paul Command Women to be Silent in Church? (Part 1) and (Part 2)
Truth Tribe Podcast by Douglas Groothuis
Podcast Recommendation. I recently discovered Truth Tribe hosted by Douglas Groothuis. I am currently reading Good News for Women by his late wife Rebecca.
His podcast is focused on Christian apologetics, biblical ethics and social ethics from a conservative perspective.
Patriarchy is not Gods Plan
Reading Recommendations:
What to say when someone says that Patriarchy is God's Plan
What to Say When Someone Uses Paul’s Letters to Endorse Patriarchy
Pastors and Elders
Paul addressed Aristotle’s Household Codes in Ephesians 5-6. Craig Keener explains the significance and the underlying principle of mutual submission.
Pastors and Elders
The structure of the ekklesia. What is an overseer? What is an elder? What is a pastor? Is the single pastor model in current churches biblical?