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Trendy worship songs come and go like the evening news cycle. Rather than focus on novelty, we should choose songs that people know and teach them songs with a timeless quality. sharperiron.org/article/perf…

Just as the pulpit symbolically represents the church's teaching ministry, the stage and the pew—for our purposes—represent two competing views of worship—performance and participation. sharperiron.org/article/perf…

The question under consideration in this post is not whether God appoints men to the ministry (He does), but how we know it. sharperiron.org/article/past…

If you’re a spiritual leader in the Church, you need someone to watch over your soul. Just like a medical doctor, who is still susceptible to illness, his medical expertise and training don’t prevent common colds. sharperiron.org/article/fool…

The advent of Jesus Christ, His death and resurrection, the birth of the Church: these were undoubtedly further revelations. But the coming of Christ was predicted in the OT, and not by means of shadowy quatrains and esoteric understandings. sharperiron.org/article/fals…

So many words that are simply second nature to us as English Bible readers spring from Tyndale’s pen. He forever altered our spiritual and theological vocabulary. sharperiron.org/article/tynd…

The Book of Revelation records Christ’s words to the Apostle John about “the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter” (Re 1.19). Four times John includes a creation reference. sharperiron.org/article/why-…

It was I who was more prone to impulsive risk-taking and danger. In his short, twenty-six years of life, Jalen always calculated his risks with remarkable maturity. sharperiron.org/article/i-th…

It is disappointing when a church that would never let a false teacher into their doors or stand in their pulpit, allows the influence of that deception to enter through one of the most powerful tools God has given to mankind—music. sharperiron.org/article/theo…

Tyndale continued to face tremendous opposition from his homeland. It came in the form of voluminous writing against him by Sir Thomas More, and also through Cardinal Thomas Wolsley’s act of declaring him a heretic in 1529. sharperiron.org/article/tynd…

A widow was only to be enrolled if she had cared for the afflicted and “devoted herself to every good work.” This assumes that all believers are to be engaged in serving others—it is simply something Christians do. sharperiron.org/article/hono…

Too many pastors let their language skills go. This article is my plea to pastors to get those skills back. sharperiron.org/article/use-…

Music is so important to God’s people that the largest book in the Bible is a songbook, not only meant to help them worship in song, but also given by God through His Spirit to shape their thinking and guide their emotions. sharperiron.org/article/theo…

Historians’ best guess is that William Tyndale was born in 1494—11 years after Martin Luther—making him a mere 42 years old when he was martyred on Oct. 6, 1536. sharperiron.org/article/tynd…

The Paralysis of the Fear of Man: The Bible has a lot to say about our fear of man, giving numerous examples of people (both believers and unbelievers) who at times were driven by this fear. sharperiron.org/article/para…

Why Creation Matters, Part 14: General Epistles - Two of these epistles are by Peter, and one of those contains the only substantial reference to Creation theology in this section of the Bible. That’s in 2 Peter 3. sharperiron.org/article/why-…

Courageous Waiting: In Psalm 27, David presents a dramatically different perspective on waiting. I call it “courageous waiting.” Let’s consider David’s mindset in these two verses. sharperiron.org/article/cour…

The 19th Council on Dispensational Hermeneutics met at Friends of Israel's New Jersey headquarters, presenting 18 papers on Israel, war, and antisemitism, plus a rabbi panel. sharperiron.org/article/cdh-…

God Is Sovereign and We Aren’t Robots: Those who reject the biblical doctrine of God’s sovereignty, in attempting to protect man’s free will (thus exalting man) lower God (just a little, they reply). sharperiron.org/article/god-…

The church is not to provide the care that the family members should provide, because the church has the responsibility to care for widows who do not have family. sharperiron.org/article/hono…