Savedthroughfaith.com

I have purchased the site, Arminiantoday.com.  All my posting will soon be done at the new site.  I have enjoyed Blogger but decided I wanted to have the rights to the site.  Subscribe in a reader...

The strength of the Arminian position on the security of the believer is that we stress that life is found only in Jesus.  There is no life apart from Jesus.  Jesus said in John 15:5-6 that we can do nothing apart from Him.  What did He mean?  Does Jesus mean that we can't live without Him or work without Him or eat without Him, etc.?  The context suggests that Jesus has bearing fruit for the glory of God in mind (John 15...

Every week it seems I hear of a new church coming to our area.  Living in the South, I already see far too many churches in our area as it is but I guess the latest church plant is the final answer to the fact that far too many people are "unchurched" in our area.  Frankly, with the way most church "services" are, I wouldn't want to attend them either.  There is way more excitement at Williams-Brice Stadium on Saturday's then there...

Having recently posted on my run-in with a KJV only man, I posted that he tried to show me that the modern Bible translations are corrupt by saying that 2 Samuel 21:19 presents a contradiction because it offers no help to modern readers such as the KJV does at this point (see 2 Samuel 21:19 KJV) where the translators added the words, "the brother of."  By the way, 1 Chronicles 20:5 does have the words "brother of."  The KJV simply takes...

Dr. John MacArthur has made it his habit to read from various Bible commentaries over passages that he is preaching on.  I have always been intrigued by this but never have done it so recently I decided to purchase   Tyndale's Old Testament Commentary on the books of 1 and 2 Kings.  This commentary is just small enough for me to carry with me to work or other places and use in my Bible reading.  It is far more deeper than the ...

Is there a biblical reason for Christians to meet together?  If I asked you what should normally take place or what is the reason that you come to the meeting place for the saints, what would be your reply?  Would you say that we come together to worship God?  Would your answer be that we come together to hear the preaching of the gospel?  Would you say that teaching of the Scriptures is why we should meet? In 1 Corinthians 11...

It has been some time since I have had a run in with a KJV only advocate.  Only a few times have I been e-mailed by a KJV only advocate from my blog.  Most know that this site is not about that issue.  However, I wanted to post this because I find the KJV only position really a funny and unique occurrence.  Let me first set up the encounter.We visited a KJV only church.  Now I knew this going in.  I wanted to visit t...

The temptation with sin is not just to commit acts that violate the law of God (1 John 3:4) but the true atrocity of sin is that we often make friends with it.  At first we do fight our sins and we often despise our sins but how easy it is to grow weary against sin and soon we make friends with our sins.  We make excuses as to why we can't overcome our sins and we begin to surround ourselves with those who might agree with our view of s...

Today marks the beginning of Ramadan in which Muslims will fast from sunrise to sunset but will then feast and celebrate.  As disciples of Jesus we should begin to labor in prayer for these souls.  So many are blinded by the enemy (2 Corinthians 4:4) and many have not heard the true gospel of Jesus Christ.  Sadly, many Muslims think that Christian means the politics of the West but they are wrong of course and need to hear the trut...

I have been reading Dr. Michael Brown's excellent book called A Queer Thing Happened To America and one of the points that Dr. Brown makes is that the Church sadly has often fought against some sins while not preaching hard against all sins.  His point is that some Christians view the sin of homosexuality as the greatest threat to the world and so they picket and preach and protest against that one sin while not realizing that what has destr...