A Change of Heart — Chapter 2: Mere Christianity (Part 2)
For the last year+ I’ve been working on a new book, A Change of Heart: Understanding...
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Author: Allen Nelson IV
A Change of Heart — Chapter 2: Mere Christianity (Part 1)
For the last year+ I’ve been working on a new book, A Change of Heart: Understanding...
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A Change of Heart, ch. 1 — Heart Matters
For the last year+ I’ve been working on a new book, A Change of Heart: Understanding...
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How to Obey God
True believers are actually being made holy by the power of God. The work of Christ didn’t just...
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Receiving Christ in Saving Faith
Read these words from John Owen from his work, The Glory of Christ… You tell us to come to...
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Making Baptist Great Again: The Path to a Conservative Resurgence in the SBC
This blog post is reworked from a sermon preached on June 13, 2021, at Perryville Second Baptist...
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The Preciousness of Christ – Benjamin Keach
The following comes from a sermon excerpt from Benjamin Keach (1640-1704) on Matthew 13:45-16...
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Why Genesis 2 Teaches a Covenant of Works – Part 2
This is Part 2 in a two-part series on the Covenant of Works in Genesis 2. See Part 1 here....
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Why Genesis 2 Teaches a Covenant of Works – Part 1
In the Garden of Eden, there lived a king named Adam. God gave Adam, the first man, a mission to...
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Sermon Excerpt: An Evangelical Atheist?
Here is a quick sermon excerpt from our series in Ephesians. This comes from Ephesians 2:12 as we...
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The Son of David
There he was, the son of David — suspended between heaven and earth. Silver had been offered for...
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Why Heaven Now is Incomplete
First, I’ll admit that I’m a bit hesitant about the word “incomplete.” I...
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Christ is King
What does it mean that Christ is King? We explored this recently as a church as we walked through...
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Rightly Understanding John 3:16 — Applications
In a previous post, I wrote a little on understanding John 3:16. In today’s post, I’d...
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Rightly Understanding John 3:16
It seems some Calvinists get so concerned about John 3:16 being used as a “gotcha” against the...
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5 Reasons Baptist Churches Should Associate
I may write a follow-up post on the nature of associations, but in today’s post, I just want...
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Someone Turned Out the Light: Guest Post from Pastor Paul Vawter
I’ve gotten to know Pastor Paul Vawter on Twitter. He is a good brother, though we disagree...
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Full Stomach, Empty Heart: A Sermon Outline from Ruth 1, Part 2
Last time we looked at how Elimelech’s departure from Bethlehem to Moab revealed that he...
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Full Stomach, Empty Heart: A Sermon Outline from Ruth 1, Part 1
In this post, we’ll look at a sermon outline from the book of Ruth and focus on Elimelech’s...
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Should Small Churches Unite?
I’m working on my master’s thesis with Grace Bible Theological Seminary and came...
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How Far Might Deception Go?
In his classic work, The Doctrine of the Law and Grace Unfolded, John Bunyan contrasts the...
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Futile Thoughts, Foolish Hearts
Recently, we’ve been walking through Romans 1:18-32 for Sunday School. This passage teaches...
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Living in the Light: An Inconsistency in the Grammatical-Historical Hermeneutic
I’ve sat on this blog post for some time and there have been times I thought it might not ever be...
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The Immeasurable Greatness of His Power
We are working through the book of Ephesians at Perryville Second Baptist Church. Recently, we...
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An Age Old Question: What do you think about the End Times?
Recently, I took a seminary examination that posed the following question. I thought I would post...
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