Religion creates pretenders. Grace removes the pretense. After all, there is none righteous. When religionists learn that salvation is all of grace and not of works, the pastor has no authority over their soul, and they are not under the law, they stop pretending. It becomes evident who they really are on the inside: apathetic […]

There are differences, and they matter.

Contrary to what many Baptists think, water baptism (or lack thereof) is not the central tenet of mid-Acts dispensational right division. Nevertheless, there are those who struggle to see the rightness of Paul’s gospel, because they place so much emphasis on the baptistry. Last month we finished a series on Baptisms in the Bible. In […]

Paul mothers his children in the faith with labour, love, and gentleness.

One makes students, the other makes workmen.