The Rest of the Old Old Story

Evangelism and the Church

This blog started as a comment on one of my other posts, but it kept growing. This post is self-explanatory without seeing the comment I’m responding to, but if you’d like to, it’s on my September 20 post. The Great Commission The statement that the great commission was for more than the apostles is made often, in [...]

Roman Catholics, Quote Mining, and Honesty

I debated whether Roman Catholicism was really a topic that fits this blog. I thought some about the name of the blog. It is “The Rest of the Old, Old Story.” This post definitely fits the blog title because I’m going to spend most of the time giving you the rest of the story left out [...]

Revival Preaching

A fellow named Daniel Hamilton left me a link on one of his comments. It has videos of the preaching of one B.H. Clendennen. Excellent preaching. Completely based in the traditions of men. Listen, my friends, Jesus did not raise up a church that is a building. He did not raise up a church that is a [...]

Salvation Is Not a Plan, It’s a Man

Except the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ Jesus make a man sick of his opinions, he may hold them to doomsday for me; for no opinion, I repeat is Christianity, and no preaching of any plan of salvation is the preaching of the glorious gospel of [...]

Christian Parenting: How to Keep Your Children from Jumping Ship

We all want to know about Christian parenting. We would all like to know how to keep our children from jumping ship and going to the world. Today, I heard a speech by Ken Ham, president of Answers in Genesis, who blames belief in modern scientific evidence for things like evolution as the reason why children [...]

Obedience and Christian “Salvation”

What is salvation? I like to use the example of a saved drowning person. The saved person is the one who’s standing on the shore. The unsaved person is the one in the water, flapping their arms in the air and going under for the 3rd time. It’s the same with Christian salvation. Peter likes to [...]

Health Care Plan, Debate, and My One Request

On the Health Care Plan, have you noticed how no one has talked about doctors and hospitals charging less money? Rose Creek Village has businesses that make a good portion of their money by working for rich doctors … doctors with jaguars, twenty thousand square foot houses, and money to spend for very fine trim, paint, [...]

The Councils, the Creeds, and the Salvation of Souls

I always say there’s nothing like reading error to motivate one to write truth. I’m prone to writing error here and there, too. I’m human. I have things I don’t understand. I have things I forget to consider. Teaching and Truth Hopefully those of us who take it upon ourselves to teach will at least never make errors [...]

Ronald Reagan Buried 20 Trillion Dollars in the White House Rose Garden

My wife tells me that the ridiculous story that Ronald Reagan buried 20 trillion dollars in the White House Rose Garden actually made it to the Google news listing last night. I found a copy of it here. As soon as I heard it, I started laughing. When I heard it was buried in mason jars, [...]

The Historic Christian Faith? - Norman Geisler, Luther’s 95 Theses, and the Bible

Error, lies, and foolishness are always excellent motivators for me to blog. The particular embarrassing morass of propaganda to which I am referring is John Ankerberg’s interview with Norman Geisler. The interview is such a collection of Protestant fantasy that I hardly know where to start. However, start I will. Norman Geisler Geisler doesn’t believe in Purgatory. Fair enough. [...]