The Bad Grammar of Christianese – Faith

Brett | May 27, 2010

Faith is one of those words that has become redefined in the lives of Christians. Without a daily reading of and thinking about scripture, these things become easily distorted. Consider these words from Kenneth Copeland:
God framed the worlds by faith. Everything God made, He made by faith. Everything He does, He does by faith.
For you [...]

Assurance Dialog

Brett | January 27, 2010

For those who may be interested, here is a conversation I had with a Lutheran on the assurance of salvation. His comments are in black, mine are in blue (there is another fellow by the name of Mark also in the discussion. I have largely left him out except where we overlap. His comments are [...]

Dawkins on Faith

Brett | October 15, 2009

Richard Dawkins has, on a number of occasions, defined faith as belief without evidence. Dawkins is an intelligent man and things like this should really be below him.
Faith is synonymous with belief. Both assume an object. There is something that is believed. Any proposition that we hold to be true is a belief. But biblical [...]

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My Name is Brett Scollard. I am husband to the most amazing woman in the world, father to 7 wonderful kids and pastor of Grace Community Church in McCook Nebraska. I am confessionally a Reformed Baptist. I run this blog as a means to sharpen and be sharpened so that we may all, "grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ."







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