McRoy’s thesis is that Easter, name and celebration, was not pagan in origin. The assertion of pagan origin of the name is largely based on the English and German names for the celebration.
“Was Easter Borrowed from a Pagan Holiday?”
It’s Impossible to “Reform” a Church from “Below”
The Preacher calls this “chasing after wind,” for if the people at the top are heretics, how can the church be reformed unless they’re booted out of the church?
“Why the Early Church Finally Rejected Premillennialism”
These early [church] critics believed that chiliasm [premillennialism] represented an approach to biblical religion that was sub-Christian, essentially failing to reckon with the full redemptive implications of the coming of Jesus of Nazareth as Messiah. They saw it as an under-realized, a not-fully-Christian, eschatology.
8 Reasons Why the Syrian Conflict is not a Sign of the End Times
If Isaiah 17 is about Syria today, then America is Babylon or Assyria. If Isaiah 17 is not about al-Assad, Obama and Netanyahu, what is it for us today?
To Young Evangelicals: Don’t Swim from Willow Creek to the Tiber; Swim to Lake Geneva
So if you’re one of those “young evangelicals” whose minds have been emptied out by the mindless cacophony of your “Willow Creek” church, don’t swim back to the Tiber. You have another option, a great one: swim to “Lake Geneva” where your minds will be fed with “true, deep, intellectually robust spirituality” of the 16th century Protestant Reformation.
PDF Booklets About Our Church’s Doctrines And Worship
When you visit our church on the Lord’s Days, you’re welcome to get a free copy of the following booklets from our literature table. You may also download these booklets below.
What Would Jesus Do . . . With Facebook?
Jesus doesn’t have a Facebook page. He doesn’t “friend” and “unfriend” at the click of a button. He doesn’t offer anonymous advice.
Why Does Your Pastor Monopolize Your Worship Service?
Why does our pastor monopolize our worship service? He does and he doesn’t. He leads the whole service, but this does not mean he monopolizes the service. In fact, our service is profoundly more participatory than the run-of-the-mill evangelical service.
Transformed by Incomprehensible Love (Repost)
A husband promises to love and to cherish his wife, but would he keep this promise if his wife was unfaithful? Not so with Christ, who, like Hosea, kept his promise, even to an adulterous Bride: he “loved the church and gave himself up for her.”
Jesus the Extreme Street Preacher
“Think positively, because I’m here to talk with you and walk with you along life’s narrow way. Give me all your tears of sadness and all your years of pain, and you’ll enter into life in my name. By being strong-willed, you will be able to overcome the obstacles of a long and winding, dry and hot desert road and arrive at your blessed assurance. Now you can testify that I’m alive because I live within your heart. Then, because I’m a loving and healing Bro, you can be happy and blest, praising your Savior all the day long.”
A Tale of Two Creeds
One, the creed of Your Best Life Now of the Damnable Prosperity Heretics. The other, the ancient creed of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic church.
“After my 15th rededication … faith was almost completely extinguished”
“I declared a church fast and we quit attending church altogether. We quit our small group, we quit working with the ministry to the homeless; we just stopped everything. Our faith was almost completely extinguished.”