Family idolatry is a plague which runs across society and among all kinds of Christian church circles- the most conservative ones being no exception.   Family idolatry even often is an issue at the roots of why people stay among false and compromised churches and do not rather follow the properRead More

Martin Luther was right to stand against the Catholic Church.  The 95 theses Luther published stirred up the controversy which eventually led to his ex-communication from the Catholic Church.  These are not why Martin Luther should not be trusted.  The course which Luther took after his ex-communication, along with hisRead More

Martin Luther courageously stood against the Pope over the Catholic Church’s corrupt practices and its undue exaltation of its own tradition.  His translation of the Bible from its original languages into German, so that it could be read by the common person in his nation, was also a valuable contributionRead More

Here we will look at the claims of Sabbatarians (which include the 7th Day Adventist Church and its key figure Ellen G. White) who claim that Christians are required to keep the Saturday Sabbath as Jews were required to under the Old Covenant (aka the Mosaic Covenant).   We read theRead More

Psalm 2:1-3: “Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?  The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed (that is, against His Christ), saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away theirRead More

Those who teach unconditional security (or, once saved, always saved) doctrine think they’re  clever when they try to defend their doctrine with the question “How can you lose eternal life?”  They throw out this question  in a rhetorical sense to try to sound slick and to try to make theirRead More

Proverbs 13:24: “He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes (promptly).” Proverbs 22:15: “Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.” Though some claim otherwise, these are talking about corporalRead More

Before we directly consider the question of whether the Bible teaches that church leaders need to be married or not, it is noteworthy to point out that the Bible surely doesn’t require that church leaders be single.   The Roman Catholic Church demonstrates its apostasy from Christ by mandating celibacy ofRead More

Though much could be said about the errors of the New IFB Movement, many of the key things about this movement are things which are common to many Baptist churches overall and are rebuked in several of our other studies (things like easy-believe-ism, justification by faith alone, antinomianism, Once SavedRead More