Wade Burleson Posts My Paper on Women in Ministry

Oh, by the way! Pastor Wade Burleson posted my research paper on Women in Ministry in a seven part series. I just now remembered that he called me this past Spring.

I was quite proud of this little paper. At the time I thought it was pretty good. Now ... well, it's okay. Having had 3 more years of seminary, a thesis project behind me, and being well into a book on my theological education, my evidence and arguments are far superior today. When recently asked about publishing this paper into a book, I responded that I would rather scrap the whole bugger and start anew. Which I am.

Here is what Wade Burleson wrote about me:

"The author of this series is a Southern Baptist pastor named Nic (Nicolas) Gold. He is the Administrative Pastor at Christian Freedom Southern Baptist Church in Kings Mountain, North Carolina.

Nic graduated from Southwestern Theological Seminary in May 2007 with a Master of Arts in Theology Degree. He wrote the paper produced in this seven part series for his systematic theology class during the 2002-2003 school year.

Nic is an inerrantist and began the paper with a view of women in ministry that he called 'traditional,' but allowed the sacred text to guide his conclusions for the paper. During his study, his views changed, under no influence but the Bible. He now views himself as an evangelical egalitarian because of his studies of the sacred text on the issue.

His church is Southern Baptist and gives to the Cooperative Program, Lottie Moon, and all the other designated missions offerings. Nic and his wife Lisa and their children absolutely love the church where they serve and minister to a congregation of about 800 in weekly attendance (and growing)."

There are a few errors in this statement. I assume he must have misunderstood me.

Lisa and I only have one child, a daughter, Dakota

The congregation has only about 500 in weekly worship attendance ... but still growing.

Also, I am no longer at Christian Freedom. I was fired from the church at the end of May for being 5-10 minutes late to the office. ... Long story. Not related to the issue of "Women in Ministry"; my position in this issue would have been a better excuse.

But, yes, I certainly love the church.

In regards to the comments concerning my paper:

Why does no one ever attack my arguments and points? I continue to hear that my position is wrong and contrary to the Scriptures but no one ever deals with the Scriptural evidence I present.

People, People! If I am truly wrong, you should be attacking my argument with ferocity. Annihilate it! Prove my argument wrong for all to see.

Instead ... well, if I am wrong about this issue, it should not have been so easy to soundly win arguments with seminary students, seminary professors, and various SBC pastor-leaders.

BEZALEL

I recently decided that it was about time for me to begin posting and sorting the various works of art which I deem to be the best. This is an on-going process which I will continue to update as I recall and am introduced to those works of art which are the sublime pinnacle of man’s ability to create like his creator.

[I'm working to update this monster of a project. Bear with me.]

Songs/Recordings

Airbag – Radiohead
Albinoni Adagio G Minor – Remo Giazotto
All Along the Watchtower – Jimi Hendrix
All Apologies - Nirvana
All Summer Long - The Beach Boys
Also sprach Zarathustra – Richard Strauss
Amazing Grace – John Newton
American Pie – Don McLean
Ashes to Ashes – David Bowie
Bachelorette – Bjork
The Barber of Seville Overture – Gioachino Rossini
Barnyard - Brian Wilson
Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite – The Beatles
The Blue Danube - Johann Strauss II
Brandenburg Concerto Allegro No. 2 in F Major – Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto Allegros No. 3 in G Major - Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto Allegro No. 6 in B Flat - Johann Sebastian Bach
Cabin Essence - Brian Wilson
China Girl – David Bowie
Cold Brains – Beck
Concerto in F – George Gershwin
Coronation Mass in C Major K.317 - Wolfgang Mozart
Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588 Act 1. Aria. Un' aura amorosa - Wolfgang Mozart
Creeque Alley – The Mamas and the Papas
Danse Macabre – Camille Saint-saens
A Day in the Life – The Beatles
Deadweight – Beck
Dollars & Cents - Radiohead
Don Giovanni, opera, K. 527 Finale - Wolfgang Mozart
Don Giovanni, opera, K. 527 Lasciala, Indegno! (Moonlight Trio) - Wolfgang Mozart
Don Giovanni, opera, K. 527Overture - Wolfgang Mozart
Don't Let It Bring You Down– Paul McCartney and Wings
Drive - REM
Emergency Exit – Beck
The End – The Doors
Die Entführung aus dem Serail, opera, K. 384 Act 2. Aria. Martern aller Arten - Wolfgang Mozart
Esther – Phish
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, for 2 string orchestras - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fee - Phish
Fire Water Burn - The Bloodhound Gang
Flaming – Pink Floyd
Girl Don't Tell Me - The Beach Boys
The Godfather Waltz – Nino Rota
God Only Knows - Brian Wilson/The Beach Boys
Going to California - Led Zeppelin
Grantchester Meadows - Pink Floyd
Guyute - Phish
Hello - Lionel Richie
Heroes and Villains – The Beach Boys
Hot Wax – Beck
Hunter – Bjork
I Got Plenty o' Nuttin' - George Gershwin
The Imperial March – John Williams
I Only Have Eyes For You - The Flamingos
It Ain't Necessarily So - George Gershwin
“Jupiter” Symphony No. 41 in C major K. 551 1. Allegro vivace - Wolfgang Mozart
Late Home Tonight Pt. 1 – Roger Waters
Lather – Jefferson Airplane
Laudate Dominum (from Vesperae solennes de confessore for soloists, chorus & orchestra), K. 339 - Wolfgang Mozart
Lara's Theme – Maurice Jarre
Lawrence of Arabia (Main Theme) – Maurice Jarre
Like a Rolling Stone – Bob Dylan
Linus and Lucy – Vince Guaraldi
Lola – The Kinks
The Longest Time - Billy Joel
Lord Only Knows – Beck
Loser – Beck
Lucky Man - ELP
Mary Jane’s Last Dance – Tom Petty and the Heart Breakers
A Mighty Fortress is Our God – Martin Luther
Monday, Monday - The Mamas and the Papas
Moonlight Sonata – Ludwig van Beethoven
Mrs. Robinson - Simon and Garfunkle
My Life - Billy Joel
Nadia’s Theme - by Barry De Vorzon and Perry Botkin, Jr.
The National Anthem - Radiohead
Le nozze di Figaro, opera, K. 492 Overture - Wolfgang Mozart
The Ocean – Led Zeppelin
Otto e Mezzo – Nino Rota
Paranoid Android – Radiohead
“Paris” Symphony No. 31 in D major K. 297 (K. 300a) 1st movement - Wolfgang Mozart
Pay No Mind – Beck
Peaches in Regalia – Frank Zappa
Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major K.467 - Wolfgang Mozart
Piano Sonata No. 12 in F major, K. 332 (K. 300k) 2. Adagio - Wolfgang Mozart
Piggies – The Beatles
Prelude #2 - George Gershwin
Professor Nutbutter's House of Treats - Primus
Rape Me - Nirvana
Rhapsody in Blue – George Gershwin
Rocket Man – Elton John
Runaway - Del Shannon
Scarborough Fair - Simon and Garfunkle
Der Schauspieldirektor, opera, K. 486 Overture - Wolfgang Mozart
Selfless, Cold and Composed – Ben Folds/Five
Serenade No. 10 for winds in B flat Minor - Wolfgang Mozart
Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict – Pink Floyd
Something - The Beatles
Space Oddity - David Bowie
Strawberry Fields Forever – The Beatles
Suite for solo cello No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007 Prelude - Johann Sebastian Bach
Summertime - George Gershwin
Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183 – Wolfgang Mozart
Tales from the Vienna Woods - Johann Strauss II
Tangled Up in Blue – Bob Dylan
That’s the Way – Led Zeppelin
The Thieving Magpie – Gioachino Rossini
Truck Driving Neighbors – Beck
Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey – Paul McCartney
Vega-Tables – Brian Wilson/The Beach Boys
Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major K. 216 3rd Movement - Wolfgang Mozart
Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major K.219– Wolfgang Mozart
"Waisenhausmesse" Mass No. 4 for soloists, chorus & orchestra in C minor - Wolfgang Mozart
Waltz 2 from Suite for Variety Stage Orchestra - Dmitri Shostakovich
When the Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin
Where It’s At – Beck
White Rabbit – Jefferson Airplane
Who Are You – The Who
A Woman is a Sometime Thing - George Gershwin
Won’t Get Fooled Again – The Who
“Wynona” – Primus
Yesterday - The Beatles
Die Zauberflöte, opera, K. 620 Aria. Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen - Wolfgang Mozart


Albums/Works

Abbey Road – The Beatles
Amnesiac - Radiohead
The Bends – Radiohead
Bigger Better Faster More – 4 Non Blondes
The Brandenburg Concertos - Johann Sebastian Bach
The Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd
Don Giovanni - Wolfgang Mozart
Fragile - Yes
Freak Out – Frank Zappa
“Gamehenge” – Phish
Goldberg Variations - Johann Sebastian Bach
Houses of the Holy – Led Zeppelin
Junta - Phish
Kid A – Radiohead
”Lifehouse”/Who’s Next – The Who
London Town – Paul McCartney and Wings
“The Man and the Journey” - Pink Floyd
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness – Smashing Pumpkins
Mellow Gold – Beck
Mutations – Beck
Odelay - Beck
OK Computer - Radiohead
Pet Sounds – The Beach Boys
Peter and the Wolf - Sergei Prokofiev
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn – Pink Floyd
Porgy and Bess – George Gershwin
The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking – Roger Waters
Purple – Stone Temple Pilots
Quadrophenia – The Who
Revolver – The Beatles
Rift - Phish
Der Ring des Nibelungen – Richard Wagner
Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
“Smile” – Brian Wilson/Beach Boys
Tommy – The Who
The Wall – Pink Floyd
“White Album” – The Beatles
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars - David Bowie


Plays

Arcadia – Tom Stoppard
Endgame – Samuel Beckett
Hamlet – William Shakespeare
Henry IV Part 1 and Henry IV Part 2 – William Shakespeare
The Importance of Being Ernest – Oscar Wilde
King Lear - William Shakespeare
MacBeth - William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare
Oedipus Rex – Sophocles
On the Razzle – Tom Stoppard
Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard
Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett


Poems

The Bells - Edgar Poe
Break, Break, Break – Alfred Lord Tennyson
Child Roland to the Dark Tower Came – Robert Browning
Dover Beach – Matthew Arnold
Four Quartets - T. S. Elliot
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud – William Wordsworth
Jabberwocky – Lewis Carroll
The Kraken - Alfred Tennyson
Kubla Khan – Samuel Coleridge
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock – T. S. Elliot
Meditation XVII - John Donne
Ode on a Grecian Urn – John Keats
Paul Revere's Ride - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poem 761 – Emily Dickenson
The Raven - Edgar Poe
Sailing to Byzantium - W.B. Yeats
The Second Coming – W.B. Yeats
She Walks in Beauty – Lord Byron
The Song of Hiawatha - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ulysses – Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Walrus and the Carpenter - Lewis Carroll
The Waste Land - T. S. Elliot
The Wife of Bath – Geoffrey Chaucer


Children’s Books

Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Grimm's Fairy Tales – Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
The Lion, the Witch,and the Wardrobe – C. S. Lewis
Peter Pan – J. M. Barrie
The Silver Chair – C. S. Lewis
Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
The Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum


Religious Books/Works

The Apocalypse of John – John
Deutero-Isaiah [40-66]
Ecclesiastes – Qoheleth
The Book of J – J Writer
The Gospel of John - John
Jonah
Luke-Acts – Luke
The Gospel of Mark - Mark
Psalm 8
Psalm 22
Psalm 23
Psalm 42
Psalm 104
Psalm 110
Psalm 119
Psalm 137
Psalm 139
The Book of Samuel
The Sermon on the Mount (Matt 5-7)
Song of Songs 1:1-7
Stephen's Speech (Acts 7:1-53)


Novels/Works

The Aeneid – Virgil
Amerika – Franz Kafka
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Before the Law – Franz Kafka
Beowulf
The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky
The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
The Cantos - Ezra Pound
The Castle - Franz Kafka
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Dark Tower Series – Stephen King
The Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio
The Divine Comedy – Alighieri Dante
Don Quixote – Miguel Cervantes
Epic of Gilgamesh
Faust – Johann Goethe
Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
Gargantua and Pantagruel – Francois Rabelais
Gawain and the Green Knight – The Pearl Poet
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
Iliad - Homer
In Search of Lost Time – Marcel Proust
The Last Temptation - Nikos Kazantzakis
Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Rings/Addendums – J.R.R. Tolkien
Metamorphoses - Ovid
Moby Dick – Herman Melville
The Murders in the Rue Morgue – Edgar Poe
The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
Odyssey - Homer
The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel - Nikos Kazantzakis
Paradise Lost – John Milton
Poetic Edda
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Prose Edda – Snorri Sturluson
The Ring and the Book – Robert Browning
Rip Van Winkle – Washington Irving
The Sign of Four – Arthur Conan Doyle
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
The Trial – Franz Kafka
Tristram Shandy – Lawrence Sterne
Ulysses – James Joyce


Films

8 ½ - Federico Fellini
2001: A Space Odyssey – Stanley Kubrick
Amadeus – Milos Forman
Animal Crackers – The Marx Brothers
Brazil – Terry Gilliam
Casablanca – Michael Curtiz
Children of Paradise - Marcel Carne
Chimes at Midnight - Orson Welles
Citizen Kane – Orson Welles
The City of Lost Children – Jean-Pierre Jeunet
A Clockwork Orange - Stanley Kubrick
Contact - Robert Zemeckis
La Dolce Vita - Federico Fellini
Dr. Strangelove – Stanley Kubrick
Duck Soup – The Marx Brothers
The Godfather - Francis Ford Coppola
Grand Illusion – Jean Renoir
Groundhogs Day – Harold Ramis
Lawrence of Arabia – David Lean
M - Fritz Lang
Manhattan – Woody Allen
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World – Peter Weir
Metropolis – Fritz Lang
The Polar Express – Robert Zemeckis
Ran - Akira Kurosawa
The Rules of the Game – Jean Renoir
The Seventh Seal – Ingmar Bergman
The Shawshank Redemption – Frank Darabont
Spirited Away - Hayao Miyazaki
The Trial - Orson Welles
The Truman Show – Peter Weir


Sitcoms

Absolutely Fabulous
The Andy Griffith Show
Are You Being Served?
Black Adder
Coupling
The Fall and Rise Reginald Perrin
Fawlty Towers
The Good Life
Green Acres
The Honeymooners
I Love Lucy
The Jack Benny Program
Night Court
Red Dwarf
Seinfeld
Soap
Taxi
Up Pompeii!
The Vicar of Dibley
Yes, Minister/Prime Minister
The Young Ones


Art

36 Views of Mount Fuji - Katsushika Hokusai
Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass – John Tenniel
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp - Rembrandt van Rijn
The Apotheosis of Homer - Salvador Dali
Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish - Salvador Dali
Les Arènes - Vincent van Gogh
Le Baiser – Auguste Rodin
Bedroom at Arles - Vincent van Gogh
Les Bourgeois de Calais – Auguste Rodin
Broadway Boogie-Woogie – Piet Mondrian
The Burial of Count Orgaz - El Greco
The Café Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, at Night - Vincent van Gogh
Sistine Chapel Ceiling – Michelangelo
La Chateau des Pyrenees – Rene Magritte
Christ Carrying the Cross (1515-1516) – Hieronymus Bosch
The Church at Auvers - Vincent van Gogh
The Colossus - Francisco Goya
Compositions – Piet Mondrian
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon - Pueblo Picasso
Un dimanche après-midi à l'Ile de la Grande Jatte – Georges-Pierre Seurat
The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus - Salvador Dali
The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory – Salvador Dali
Don Quixote - Pueblo Picasso
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas – Ralph Steadman
Freedom From Want – Norman Rockwell
The Garden of Earthly Delights – Hieronymus Bosch
The Gates of Hell – Auguste Rodin
Geopoliticus - Salvador Dali
Geopoliticus Child - Salvador Dali
Girafe en Fue - Salvador Dali
Girl with a Pearl Earring – Jan Vermeer
Golconde – Rene Magritte
Gossip – Norman Rockwell
Les Grandes Baigneuses – Paul Cezanne
The Great Mxxxxxxxxxr – Salvador Dali
Guernica - Pueblo Picasso
The Hallucinogenic Toreador – Salvador Dali
Hand with Globe – M.C. Escher
Homecoming G.I. – Norman Rockwell
I and the Village – Marc Chagall
Jacob Wrestling with the Angel - Gustave Dore
The Kiss – Gustav Klimt
Lady Godiva – John Collier
Landscape with Olive Trees - Vincent van Gogh
The Last Judgment – Hieronymus Bosch
The Last Judgment – Michelangelo
The Lascaux Cave Paintings
Marriage License – Norman Rockwell
The Metamorphosis of Narcissus – Salvador Dali
The Night Café - Vincent van Gogh
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 – Marcel Duchamp
The Old Guitarist - Pueblo Picasso
Olive Grove - Vincent van Gogh
Olive Orchard - Vincent van Gogh
The Olive Trees – Vincent van Gogh
Pieta – Michelangelo
Le Penseur – Auguste Rodin
The Persistence of Memory – Salvador Dali
Le Pont Japonais a Giverny – Claude Monet
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I - Gustav Klimt
Relativity - M.C. Escher
The Road - Vincent van Gogh
The Roadblock - Norman Rockwell
Saint Peter Denying Christ - Rembrandt van Rijn
Saturn Devouring His Son – Francisco Goya
Saying Grace – Norman Rockwell
The Scream – Edvard Munch
Self-Portrait as St. Paul - Rembrandt van Rijn
The Slave Market with Disappearing Bust of Voltaire – Salvador Dali
Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) – Salvador Dali
The Son of Man – Rene Magritte
The Starry Night - Vincent van Gogh
Still Life Moving Fast - Salvador Dali
Still Life with Apples and Oranges – Paul Cezanne
Still Life with Two Sunflowers - Vincent van Gogh
Sting Caused by the Flight of a Bee - Salvador Dali
Sunflowers - Vincent van Gogh
Swans Reflecting Elephants - Salvador Dali
The Temptation of St. Anthony – Hieronymus Bosch
Temptation of St. Anthony – Salvador Dali
Triple Self Portrait - Norman Rockwell
Tuna Fishing - Salvador Dali
Two Cut Sunflowers - Vincent van Gogh
University Club – Norman Rockwell
Vitruvian Man – Leonardo da Vinci
Walking to Church – Norman Rockwell
Where the Wilds Things Are – Maurice Sendak


Theological Works

Axioms of Religion – E.Y. Mullins
The Baptist Heritage – Leon McBeth
The Christian Religion in its Doctrinal Expression – E.Y. Mullins
The Concept of Anxiety – Soren Kierkegaard
Concluding Unscientific Postscript - Soren Kierkegaard
Cost of Discipleship – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dogmatics – Emil Brunner
Either/Or – Soren Kierkegaard
The Epistle to the Romans – Karl Barth
Fear and Trembling – Soren Kierkegaard
Mere Christianity – C. S. Lewis
Nature and Destiny of Man – Reinhold Niebuhr
On Being Christian – Hans Kung
Philosophical Fragments – Soren Kierkegaard
The Sickness Unto Death – Soren Kierkegaard
Transforming Mission – David Bosch
Understanding Genesis – Nahum Sarna
Word of Truth – Dale Moody
Works of Love – Soren Kierkegaard

AKEDAH

I recently decided that it was about time for me to begin collecting and sorting many of my various monographs. Specifically, I want to focus on those which involve the Faith and Literature and which reflect my attempts at understanding what we are to know and what we are to do.


ESSAYS

Translating the Gospel

So Far ... What is it about Mormonism that prevents its followers from having salvation in Christ?

What is it about Mormonism that prevents its followers from having salvation in Christ?

Egalitarianism, Evolution and Abortion

Scripture Interprets Scripture: Annihilationism, Non-Penal Substitutionary Atonement and a Multiple Choice Question To Keep You Up Tonight

Inerrancy and Textual Variatians in the Scriptures

On the Death of Animals

Stumbling Blocks for the Glory of God

Global Warming

Another Reason to Understand the Adam of Genesis 1 and 2-3 as Being Figurative and A-historical

JESUS WAS NOT PUNISHED BY GOD FOR THE SINS OF HUMANITY

Loving Those You’ll Never Know

ONLY WARREN CAN GO TO NORTH KOREA

The Ethics of the Sermon on the Mount

The Man-made Argument for "Man made in the Image of God": An Argument Against the Complementarian View of God (Made by a Man Who Has It Made as a Man

DO NOT FORBID SPEAKING IN TONGUES (1 Cor 14:39)

The Problem With The Baptist Faith and Message

To You Who Attempt To Force Others To Adopt Your Traditions: YOU AND YOUR TRADITIONS ARE NOT ABOVE SCRIPTURE OR JESUS CHRIST.

Inerrancy and the Historical Veracity of Literary Scripture

Alcohol and Vacillating to the World

The Use of the Word "Sinner"

The Traditions of Men and the Meaning of Scripture

Narrowing Doctrinal Parameters

A Thought on Contemporary and Traditional Worship

Justice, Mercy and Punishment: A Sermon on Genesis 4:2b-16 on the Occasion of the 5th Anniversary of September 11th

Should Women Teach Men At Church?

The Problem With Penal Substitionary Atonement

Man From Mud Thru Mammals: The Value of Man Amidst Evolutionary Theory

Open vs Closed Communion, or "You're Not Worthy!"

To the Seminary Student Interested in SBC Politics:

Seven Observations Concerning Alcohol Abstinence

Oinos: Yes, It Actually Means "Wine"

Hubris In The Pulpits: 14 Problems With Advocating Complete Abstinence Of Alcohol Consumption

The Character and Motives of Judas Iscariot

There's A Slow Train A'comin': Truth and Patience Against Christian Cultural Dogmatism

The Inheritors

Paradigm Shifts, Modern Psychology and Nouthetic Counseling

“One” Man And “One” Woman?

The Dissent of Man: Where We Currently Stand With Regards To The Conservative Resurgence

The Dissent of Man: Cliff Notes Version

A Review of Love Your God With All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul, by J. P. Moreland.

Soul Competency, Baptist Revisionism, and Inerrancy

Inerrant Art

Who Adam and Eve Were

The Textual Evidence For Jacob Wrestling An Elohiym

"Private Prayer Language" And Dictating An Individual's Personal Relationship With God

Is Naturalism A Religion?

The Satan and Ezekiel 28: Reasons Why These Two Are Not Connected

The Problem of Atheism and Its Solution: A Call to Abandon Apologetics as an Evangelical Method

The Abandonment of Hell

WHAT IS THE GOSPEL?

Fear, Faith and the Proper Perspective: Christians and Catastrophe

Every Term Is Sacred: A Response to Dr. Al Mohler's Article "Deliberate childlessness & moral rebellion"

Culture and Calamity: Where Do We Go From Here?

CRISIS IN THE POT: or The Southern Baptist Convention, The Conservative Resurgence, and The Evangelical Crisis.

A Definition of Inspiration

The Historicity of Christ

The Circenses Faith and Message 2004

The Doctrine of Drinking

Pyrrhic Victories: Winning the Culture Wars

Assault of the Earth?

Reflections on Acts 9:28-30

Evangelical Evolutionism


COMMENTARIES

For prospective seminary students ...

FIRST-PERSON: Are God & Allah the same? [Updated with commentary]

It's Only Symbolic or It's Symbolic!

Many evangelicals unwittingly live as feminists

SBFM2005

Nouthetic-Only Counseling: The Fad Continues


QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

"Born-Again" Part Three: Subjective and Objective Truth

"Born-Again" Part Two: Connotations and Apathy

"Born-Again" Part One: Replies on Translating anothen

Identifying Gehenna: An Answer to a Question on Annihilationism

Language, Culture, and Mythology Concerning Jacob Wrestling with an Elohiym

Is the Elohiym of Genesis 32 Malicious?

Blessings and Names: The Identity of Jacob's Opponent in Genesis 32

The "Suffering Servant" and the Atonement

What I Believe About the Atonement of Christ

Creeds and Confessions

Is An Unbeliever Condemned By Participating In Communion?

Inerrancy and the SBC

A Discussion On The Atonement

When An Unbeliever Can Eat Communion Elements

When Communion Is Open And When It Is Closed

John the Baptist vs. Jesus the Christ

Worshipping God in Vain

Divine Creation

The Book of Daniel (Anchor Bible)

Marriage and Divorce

Hell, What Is It Not Like?: A Reply To A Friend

A Question Answered and Replied

A Response to an Answer: On the Trinity, God's Word and the Inerrancy of Scripture as espoused by the Evangelical Theological Society

Killing in the Name of America

Should Christians Sue Other Christians?

Melchizedek and Christ

According to the Order of Melchizedek

A Good and Timely Discussion

Plow Shears and Swords

The Great Nouthetic Counseling Debate


SATIRE

"Do They Know It's Christmas?": An Open Letter from the Angel Gabriel to the Shepherds Abiding in the Field, Keeping Watch Over Your Flocks

KEEP YOUR HANDS TO YOURSELF (PART TWO): Concerning celibacy

Gun Control vs. Alcohol Abstinence

KEEP YOUR HANDS TO YOURSELF (PART ONE): The Case For Hand-Raising Abstinence

The God of Mohammed in Greensboro

God Does Not Call The Rain To Fall

The Tale of Lady Godiva

the Conservative Re-Resurgence (2006)

Si Dios es por nosotros, ¿quién contra nosotros?

The Historical-Critical Nuclear Method

On The New NEBTS Teaching Policy

FIRST-PERSON: A creationist watches ‘Bugs Bunny’

Mr. McBeth


MISCELLANEOUS

Proof for the Existence of God

Reassessing the Pre-Fallen World: Distinguishing Between What We like and What God Likes

Soul Competency Amongst 19th Century American Baptists

It Was Good For Bach and Mozart ...

Recommended Religious Reading List

Head Coverings During Prayer: Applying 1 Corinthian 11:4 at Graduation

How one can believe the Bible is wrong and still be an inerrantist

A Sabbath with Soap

For those people who are suffering with sins related to the homosexual lifestyle:

The Unopened Box

Friends with the President

The Wonderful Blessings of Being a Southern Baptist

Three Questions on the Inerrancy of Scripture

Questions For The Faint of Faith And Not For The Frustrated and Faint of Heart

Popularity and the Christian Minister

The Top 10 Reasons Which Make You Believe That Your New Testament Grader Has Been Watching American Idol

Panis Circenses' 50 Top Most Influential Christians

How did Methuselah die?

Evolution, the Gospel, and the Baptist Press

SBC Heresy Trials

To the Incoming Seminary Freshman

Question

Another Question

Reasons For The Effectiveness of John Paul II

I Wonder What Stephen Hawking Thinks Of All This?

Can Christians Believe That People Are Born Gay?

panem et circenses ...

"a 'true' church"

The Great Mystery of Our Generation

Fear and Loathing in November


MORE MISCELLANEOUS

BEZALEL

The Dance

The Parable of the Two Trees

T is for Tofu

Essential Children's Books

TOP 50 RESTAURANTS IN THE METROPLEX

An Open Letter To My Niece And To All Who Are About To Read The Chronicles of Narnia For The First Time

The Arky-Arky Song

Super Tuesdays

A Parable

The Death of a Sitcom Character

Asa Nisa Masa: A Critical Review of 8 1/2

It Is As It Was: A Review of The Passion

Terminals of Endearment: A Review of The Terminal

My 100 Favorite Films

I Dream Of Brownie With The Light Blue Jeans


QUICK THOUGHTS

I Confess

The Height of Goliath

The Humour of Deutero-Isaiah in Isaiah 56:3-5

A Quick Thought on the Image of God

What Is Jesus Like?

"The greatest born among men" (7:28-35)

A Quick Thought on God as Being

A Quick Thought (Did Jesus Carry A Bible?)

Two Quick Thoughts on Moses and the Promise Land

First Insights Into The Book Of Joshua

A Quick Confession of Christ

A Quick Thought (Young-Earth Creation)

A Not So Quick Thought ... But Worth The Read (Atheists Teaching Our Children)

A Literal Question To Ponder Non-literally (Literal Interpretations)

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