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The Doctrine of Election

The Doctrine of Election

By D. Richard Ferguson NOTE: My apologies for all the technical jargon in this post. It was written for a seminary class. If you prefer to read the article in a Word document, click the button to download: ElectionDownload Three Traditional Views The three predominant...

Truth, Lies, and Fact-Checkers

Truth, Lies, and Fact-Checkers

The ultimate, infallible arbiter of truth is, of course, God. Our society has rejected him, but as much as they hate him, they can’t help replacing him. Even if it’s with some unknown 25-year-old computer science major armed with Wikipedia.

Do You Praise More than You Criticize? (Matthew 5:22-26)

Do You Praise More than You Criticize? (Matthew 5:22-26)

Jesus was not a negative person.

He didn’t walk around rebuking and criticizing and complaining about everyone and everything.

He certainly had the right to. He was the one human being who actually was better than everyone else. And yet, He didn’t look down on everybody.

In fact, quite often He praised people and rejoiced over good things they did. He even marveled at one man’s faith.