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Israel did not live in a spiritual vacuum. The name of YHWH was planted in the middle of a world already thick with names—names spoken over altars, carved into stones, invoked at city gates, and trusted for rain, fertility, victory, healing, and protection. The Bible’s warfare against idolatry wasn’t fought in theory; it was fought in public, in homes, in kings’ courts, and—at Israel’s worst moments—even beside the worship of YHWH Himself. The Gods That Surrounded Israel is not a collection of exotic trivia. It is a clear, readable map of the rival deities, cults, and ...

The Bible presents a unified testimony about human depravity from the Fall in Genesis to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Scripture does not flatter human nature. It does not portray man as morally neutral, nor as steadily progressing upward through enlightenment and civilization. Instead, it reveals a tragic but realistic portrait: humanity, created good, fell into sin, and ever since that fall the corruption of the human heart has expressed itself in countless forms—sometimes crude and violent, sometimes polished and sophisticated, sometimes openly wicked, and sometimes clothed in ...

One cannot study the opening chapters of the book of Genesis without getting into some very weighty issues. There is, of course, the first chapter that talks about Creation. But there are also other issues as well. For example, who wrote the book of Genesis? Not everyone will agree that it was Moses. Plus, when, if he did write it, did he actually write it? As will be seen in that part of this text, the higher critics have argued against Moses for a reason that will be shared at that time. But other critics have also argued against Moses, as being the author of the first five books of the ...

A growing number of Christians are noticing that spiritual sluggishness is spreading among Christians. Perhaps you have observed this and have begun to pray for revival. Many factors are likely contributing to the spiritual sluggishness. This book explores one of them. We know that unless the Holy Spirit moves upon God’s people, revival is not going to happen. But the Holy Spirit uses the truth of the Gospel in the process of reviving people. This book asserts that during the past two or three hundred years, the Church has gradually embraced a gospel that is truncated to some degree. It ...

This short booklet, “BAPTISM FOR THE DEAD?”, is a tightly focused study built around one stubborn text—1 Corinthians 15:29—and it argues that Paul’s line about people being “baptized for the dead” is best handled as a rhetorical weapon in his resurrection defense, not as a permission slip for post-mortem rites. The foreword sets the tone: the church is repeatedly tempted to take an obscure phrase, detach it from the whole counsel of God, and construct a “machine” out of it—something impressive and even emotionally appealing, but ultimately replacing Christ and truth with...

This bookt is essentially a compact “case file” arguing that the phrase “common grace” is a later theological label that often blurs biblical categories, and that Old School Baptists should reject the label while still affirming God’s real providence in the world. It starts by defining “common grace” the way Reformed writers typically do: God’s non-saving kindness and restraint broadly experienced by humanity (sun/rain, civic order, gifts, restraint of evil), sharply distinguished from saving grace in Christ. Then it notes the Old School Baptist objection: call those ...

A thorough discussion of what the lost person must do to be saved.

Timing is everything. Nothing could be truer as it relates to John Calvin and his teaching. If Calvin had lived a century earlier, his teaching would have been swallowed up in the Catholic tradition, and he would likely be a footnote in Christian history rather than a pillar. If he had come a century later, his teaching would have faced the daunting task of shaping a movement that was already in motion. When Calvin developed his doctrine, it was the perfect time. The Western World was ready for a new theological system as it had not been since the time of Constantine. This time, however, ...

The apostle Paul begins his exhortation on spiritual warfare in Ephesians 6 by calling believers to strength—not in themselves—but in the Lord and in the power of His might. “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might” (Ephesians 6:10). He then commands them to “put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil” (Ephesians 6:11). This call is not passive. It is a militant cry to readiness in the face of a cunning and relentless enemy. The very purpose of the armor of God is to enable the believer to stand ...

Seamos honestos: ¿realmente la existencia del infierno o la aniquilación evitará que anheles aquellas cosas de las que te has privado? Este mensaje no hace más que revelar lo que ya estaba presente en tu interior. Exista o no el infierno, exista o no el cielo, lo cierto es que, en lo profundo de nuestros corazones, no vivimos motivados por la recompensa o el castigo; eso no tiene el poder de transformarnos. Solo el amor lo tiene. Este libro ofrece las bases para la restauración de todas las cosas, mostrando que antes vivíamos por miedo, pero hoy podemos vivir por amor, de manera ...

The term “Ordo Salutis” is a Latin phrase meaning “the order of salvation.” The Ordo Salutis is a theological construct of what is believed to be a logical sequence of events in God’s work of saving a sinner and bringing that saved sinner to heaven. The Ordo Salutis as generally conceived begins with God’s choices concerning salvation. The Ordo Salutis I propose begins with God’s decision to create the universe and why he decided to create: to manifest his glory. That beginning affects the way the entire Ordo Salutis is viewed. The focus of this book is more than words, it is ...

The “SO GREAT SALVATION” mentioned in Hebrews 2:3 is NOT the salvation believers receive when they first believe on Jesus for their eternal life (Ephesians 2:8-9). The salvation found in the Book of Hebrews deals primarily with the salvation of the soul, which represents the ongoing sanctification process believers should be carrying out in their daily lives (Philippians 2:12-13).

You were created to walk in victory — secured by the blood of Jesus. We are living in a time of accelerating deception, spiritual confusion, and cultural upheaval. Yet none of this surprises our God. Before the foundation of the world, He prepared a victorious plan through Jesus Christ — a plan that broke the power of sin, darkness, death, and every weapon of the enemy. From the Passover meal to His triumphant resurrection, Jesus won decisive victories that are eternally recorded in the Courts of Heaven. These victories were sealed in His Blood Covenant — and as children of God, we ...

Romans 8:31-39 is a reminder of what the Lord Jesus has done. It is a picture of the grace of God providing all we need for salvation and a right relationship with God. It is about a God whgo has invested much in the lives of His children and who will do all He can to keep them. It portrays salvation from God's perspective. Paul's focus in these verses is not about our commitment to God but rather about His commitment to us. In this brief study of Romans 8:31-39 you will see something of the commitment of God to you and to keeping you in the salvation His Son gave His life to accomplish.

“PROGRESSIVE GLORIFICATION?” booklet is a compact polemic + study-aid that does three things in order: Puts the phrase “progressive glorification” on trial. The foreword argues that the phrase can sound like gospel brightness while functioning as a ladder that turns the Christian life into “climb higher, shine brighter, prove more,” shifting assurance from Christ to my progress. It insists 2 Cor. 3:18 is a window (behold Christ) rather than a scoreboard (measure yourself). Presents Charles Leiter’s “Law of Christ” material, then critiques it from an Old School Baptist ...

The doctrine of the One New Man stands at the very heart of the New Testament revelation of salvation, redemption, and God’s eternal purpose in Christ. It is not a secondary theme, nor merely a theological metaphor, but a foundational truth that explains what God has accomplished through the cross, what the Church truly is, and where history itself is moving. When Scripture speaks of the one new man, it is revealing God’s answer to humanity’s deepest problem—not merely individual sin, but division: division between God and man, between Jew and Gentile, between peoples, nations, and ...

The title “Son of Man” is one of the most theologically rich and carefully chosen titles Jesus uses for Himself in the New Testament. Far from meaning merely “a human being,” it draws together humanity, suffering, authority, judgment, and eternal kingship into a single biblical framework that spans both Testaments.

According to a book from 2020, “non-causative predestination” is basically a modern guardrail phrase: it tries to protect two claims the author insists Scripture teaches plainly—God’s sovereignty over all events and God’s holiness as “not the moral author of sin”—without letting human “logic” bully the Bible into choosing only one of them. The Foreword’s core complaint is that many controversies come from confusing mystery with contradiction. A contradiction would be God being holy and unholy “in the same sense.” Mystery is God being “sovereign over all events”...

“God’s Kind” here does not mean “God is kind,” even though He certainly is. Rather, it refers to God’s species or children. Using “God’s Kind” to expound on the Kingdom of God is new and bold. The hope is to jolt readers to think outside the “Kingdom of God box,” which has been rigidly constructed within the various perspectives of major theological schools and has continued to divide Christians. Satan’s attack on God’s kind is focused on this truism spoken by Jesus: “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and a divided household falls” (Luke 11:...

In broad strokes, the document shows that “eternal vital union” among Old School Baptists is not a random oddity but a specific way of talking about how Christ and his people are related in eternity, and how that relation intersects with Adam, the fall, and time-bound regeneration. At its core, eternal vital union is the claim that the elect are not merely decreed or foreseen in Christ, but that they truly stand to him as children to a Head in an eternal, living relation before the world began. In Gilbert Beebe’s pieces, that union is pushed very far: the elect are an “eternal seed,...