The common day lily grows prolifically along country roads and highways, as well as in many of our gardens in the northeastern region of the United States. I suspect its growing range may go far beyond that, for this plant is so very hardy, it seems to grow easily most anywhere. We call it “common” […]
I had heard about this charge from others. Yet as I entered the theological library in Haverlee, Belgium on that crisp fall day, it never entered my mind that I would personally hear the charge for the first time. Although the theology student’s charge was neither artificial nor contrived, yet it provoked me to think. […]
While God Himself never changes, His methods do. He works in different ways at different times. We sometimes speak of the way God administers His affairs with man during a particular era as a dispensation. Technically, a dispensation does not mean an age but rather an administration, a stewardship, an order or an economy. Therefore, […]
Reformed theology has long given great significance to the term “the believer’s rule of life.” By this term they are referring to the “moral” law given to Moses on Mount Sinai. Reformed teachers acknowledge that this phrase does not occur in the Bible; nevertheless, they argue that it is an indispensable principle in the life […]
Believers “gathered to the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ” should live under the authority of that Name. We must guard against a superior attitude towards believers who may know little church truth yet are mature in their practical walk. New Testament believers had New Testament life. Assembly truth was part of the fabric of […]
What is Bullingerism or Ultra-dispensationalism? This system was first advocated some years ago by Dr. E. W. Bullinger (1837-1913), who was educated at King’s College, London, and was a clergyman in the Church of England. These views have been widely spread through the notes of the Companion Bible which he edited. Dr. Bullinger’s positions are […]
Three factors are indispensable to Dispensational Theology. They clearly make Dispensational Theology distinct from Covenant Theology. Any view of Scripture which does not contain all three is not dispensational in the truest sense of the term. The first factor is the recognition of the distinction between the nation of Israel and the Church. Covenant theology […]
John Gifford Bellett (1795-1864) was the premiere devotional writer in what is called the “Brethren movement” of the 1800s. His sweet peaceableness filters through all his writing. In an age of doctrinal combat, we read Bellett and hear the apostle’s gentle whisper, “And yet show I unto you a more excellent way.” Bellett was born […]