Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see. – John Newton
John Newton’s “Amazing Grace” is played and sung in churches across the world every Lord’s Day. It is no doubt the favorite hymn of many Southern Baptists, and yet the theology behind the hymn seems to be currently eroding in our Southern Baptist era. Continue Reading…
Church discipline is a serious and necessary part of biblical Christianity. Daily repentance and confession of sin is to be present in every Christian’s life and when repentance is not present in the life of a Christian, those whom God has placed to lead each local congregation is to confront the church member regarding the member’s sin (1 Cor 5). Speaking with many Southern Baptists, I have come to realize that church discipline is almost completely void in many, if not most, Southern Baptist churches. This absence of rebuke and tolerance of unrepentant sin will destroy a church and condemn a church member. Continue Reading…
Karl Dahlfred’s book Theology Drives Methodology: Conversion in the Theology of Charles Finney and John Nevin is currently free in Kindle format.
Charles Finney’s infamous revivalism centered on “decisional regeneration” has led to much damage and confusion in today’s Evangelical and Southern Baptist world.
You can download the book here.
The life of dying to self and killing sin is difficult, incredibly difficult. When focusing on mortifying certain sins in one’s life, it is easy to lose focus on other sin areas and actions that may be less noticeable but are just as crippling as the perceived “major sins.”
John Piper has recently compiled a few sermons into a free ebook called Sanctification in the Everyday. In the book, Piper shares a personal breakthrough he experienced while on sabbatical from ministry. His focus had been set on a certain sin area while others sins were going unbattled or at the very least hardly fought.
Sin is never fought passively, even the sins we perceive as “minor.” Continue Reading…
Welcome! My name is Joshua Breland. I am a disciple of Christ, husband to Libby, and full time student.
