Posted by Ray Pritchard on 10.14.06 in Churches, Congregational Singing, Theology
Consider this a follow-up to my earlier entry on My Perfect Church. After thinking about that list some more, I wanted to pare it down to a few succinct principles that could be easily memorized, I was surprised by the first thing that came to mind, and I couldn’t get it out of my mind so I left it in first place. My …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 10.10.06 in Theology
According to this article, the Pope may be about to abolish the Catholic doctrine of limbo, a centuries-old teaching that answers the question, “What happens to unbaptized babies that die in their infancy?” The medieval doctrine of limbo taught that they go to limbo, a sort of halfway house between heaven and hell. Why abol …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 10.7.06 in Churches, Current Events, Homosexuality, Theology
Mark Driscoll explains why the mainline denominations are in such a mess. He then offers these ten steps to destroying a denomination:1) Have a low view of Scripture and, consequently, the deity of Jesus. 2) Deny that we were made male and female by God, equal but with distinct roles in the home and church. 3) Ordain libera …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 9.15.06 in Theology
In 1923, J. Gresham Machen wrote a groundbreaking book called Christianity and Liberalism. A leader in the conservative movement within the Presbyterian Church, Machen wrote the book to demonstrate the fundamental difference between biblical Christianity and liberal Christianity. Looking back on the controversy his book pro …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 7.24.04 in Christmas, Theology
8:18 PM Today’s entry in the Crosswalk weblog is called Clearing Off My Desk. 6:00 PM We arrived home about 8 PM last night, totally exhausted. I preached 24 times in the last two weeks and together Marlene and I spent more time than ever ministering and praying with people at Maranatha and Word of Life. Before we went, we …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 7.9.04 in Churches, Current Events, Homosexuality, Theology
7:42 PM Another nice note—this one from the Philippines:Dear Pastor Ray, Thank you very much for the availability of your free download sermons, I’m happy that this will help me easier when given a time to speak and share the word of God. I am Emmanuel B. Badulis, a civil engineering graduate and working as a college …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 5.30.04 in Personal, Theology, Word of Life
7:01 AM A Prayer for Sunday Morning Here are excerpts of a prayer by Alexander MacLaren (1826-1910), one of Great Britain’s most famous preachers. A contemporary of Charles Spurgeon, MacLaren pastored Union Chapel in Manchester for many years. His multi-volume Bible expositions are still in print almost a century after his …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 5.5.04 in Preaching, Theology
12:05 PM Yesterday I answered another stack of prisoner letters from men and women who had read An Anchor for the Soul and wrote to say thanks. Many said they had trusted Christ as a result of reading it. Here is a montage of comments from various prisoners in Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, New York and New Jersey: “…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 4.26.04 in Current Events, Theology
10:53 AM Just about ready to leave for the airport to fly to New York. I fly to Albany where someone from Word of Life picks me up. The Bible Institute is located in Pottersville, a tiny town about 75 miles north of Albany, on the southern edge of Schroon Lake, in the Adirondack Mountains. Usually I’m there in January or Fe…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 4.10.04 in Current Events, Theology
8:41 PM Rabbi Daniel Lapin explains why so many Jewish groups passionately hate Mel Gibson. Instead of following the Torah (which we call the Old Testament), they are infected by “secular fundamentalism.” The entire article is well worth reading. Here is his conclusion: Once Mel Gibson revealed himself to be, like the p…
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