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What exactly were Aaron and Jeroboam doing with their golden calves?| Douglas Van Dorn
What exactly were Aaron and Jeroboam doing with their golden calves?| Douglas Van Dorn
Someone sent me one of these ridiculous videos from some self-proclaimed "academic" proving that "Jesus" is a bastardization word meant to destroy his true name: Jeshua. I'm sure you've run across these recently yourself. We now live in the world where everything is a conspiracy, especially in Christianity (the shape of the earth, the number of books in the Bible, the name of the Savior, the color of Jews, the origin of the Jews, those evil Catholic Bishops trying to suppress the real Gnostic Je| Douglas Van Dorn
Douglas Van Dorn March 29, 2024 So it seems that the outrage-of-the-week from many Christians on the left is Donald Trump collaborating together with the singer Lee Greenwood, famous for his “God Bless the USA” song, to sell the “God Bless The USA Bible.” As one local Denver preacher puts it, he was taught to revere the Bible and assumed there would be outcry from those who taught him what to believe about the Bible. But all he got was crickets from this marketing stunt. “We’ve lo...| Douglas Van Dorn
The Christian Nationalism BoogiemanIt is common in Reformed covenantal circles these days to hear much demeaning talk about so-called “Christian nationalism” or “Christian Americanism.” The idea seems to be that when someone talks about making a Christian nation, they are necessarily hopelessly confusing and misapplying Israel’s very special covenant with God that it alone possessed. The logic seems to be, God gave Israel a covenant. America is not Israel. Therefore, any application...| Douglas Van Dorn
I saw a great short take today from one of my favorite, uh, let me just call him guys on Twitter/Telegram today. He’s actually the guy who broke the Ukraine-USA bio-weapon’s labs story, back when the deep state was promoting their 60s love-in for Ukraine.His comments were about Taylor Swift and the NFL. And for the records, yes, it gets old, as this Babylon Bee article and about 100 other brilliant memes that have come out today say so well. Before I let you see his piece, here’s a tin...| Douglas Van Dorn
Weird Stuff in the BibleWe all have those stories or verses or psalms that we read and scratch our head and wonder what in the world this could possibly mean. That’s probably why there is no shortage of books on difficult passages of the Bible that attempt to explain many of them. Recently, the newly revamped radio show that I cut my Reformed teeth on nearly 30 years ago—The White Horse Inn—came out with a new episode in a larger series tackling the subject of “weird stuff.” (“Mi...| Douglas Van Dorn
By Douglas Van Dorn (Dec 19, 2023)"You Are An Obsession"In this post, I want to deal with a threat to the church that few seem to want to talk about. Have you ever had or seen or known a stalker? Have you ever been one yourself? I’m not talking about someone you don’t know outside your house trying to break in and kill you or anything, although that would also fit the larger context of my point in this post. I’m talking about that person who was so obsessed they could think or do nothin...| Douglas Van Dorn
Ralph Erskine (1685-1752) was a Scottish churchman. You've probably never heard of him, and neither had I, until I met a group of Reformed Baptist pastors who, annually, recited a poem of his as they gathered for the rather secretive "Spurgeon Society" meeting, as they sat around table smoking their pipes and cigars. Baptists? Smoking? Yeah, they were Reformed Baptists. Meaning, they don't willingly harp on legalistic taboos that other Baptists decide to make up to make themselves feel morally s| Douglas Van Dorn
This post will briefly explore a hotly debated topic within some branches of the Reformed world right now called immutability. Immutability is the biblical doctrine that God does not change. The question, however, is what does this actually mean? We will look at this from the perspective to God's relationship to time using mathematics as an illustration. Is God's essential nature temporal or atemporal (outside of time). I will not get into the details of what all either view entails in this post| Douglas Van Dorn
** This is an article I wrote back in December, 2003. Slightly Revised.Someone may ask you how you know that the Bible is true? How do you know that Christ was God or that he was even born at all or many other doctrines of Faith? The Confession of Faith says, "We may be moved and induced by the testimony of the church of God to a high and reverent esteem of the Holy Scriptures; and the heavenliness of the matter, the efficacy of the doctrine, and the majesty of the style, the consent of all the| Douglas Van Dorn
** Going back through some of my old articles for our church, I came across this one. The ideas that led to it have been on my mind recently, as for a while there it looked like Bill McCartney 2.0 was coming in the form of Prime Time Deion Sanders. Both are/were coaches for the University of Colorado. Both are very outspoken Christians. Coach Mac started a movement over three decades ago that was called Promise Keepers. I went to a couple of the meetings and they were in some ways quite extraord| Douglas Van Dorn
Looking at my old pile of goodies, I found this one from 20 years ago. It might be a little over the top, but not much. Of course, things have changed a lot in that time. TV isn't what it once was. Paul and Jan are gone. I know that their kids actually sold one of their buildings to some pretty good guys for a huge bargain, a pretty decent thing to do, I must say. Nevertheless, when it comes to theology and pretty much anything having to do with Christian discipleship, steering clear is the best| Douglas Van Dorn
