The Tulip Driven Life

By: Thomas Fletcher Booher Something is wrong with America. According to Christians that is, and it has been for a long time. Gay marriage, abortions, Obama, wars, government, Arminians, it is all just wrong. I guess we better cry and complain about it some more and wait for God's judgment to pour down on all those wicked people.  Sometimes that's what it sounds like to me. Doom and gloom. No hope for America because she's already taken on too much water. What a sad lot of sovereign gracer's we are if we actually believe that. Cannot God do anything? Yes, He can do all His holy will. Or at least, isn't that what reformed people learned to mimic as children?  I'm reformed. I'm late to the party as I didn't become a Calvinist til I was 19. I love the reformed faith, I agree with Spurgeon that it is just a nickname for biblical Christianity, but that doesn't mean that I think all is well in the reformed world. You see, I think we are

By: Nathan Fox  The Problem For one reason or the other, I feel as if Christianity in America is on a rapid downhill climb. We can blame it on theological faultiness (and that would be correct), or on immoralit y in the church (correct also). But I will give one overarching reason for what I believe to be a continual decline of Christianity in this country: shallow faith.  For many reasons, the Christian faith  in this country is slowly fading into  an activity, and not a wholly devoted lifestyle . Many “Christians” now walk into church not because they want to grow closer to God, but because it is something that they have traditionally done. And believe me, I was no exception to this growing up. I went to church because my parents did, and thought that my faith was something that I did, not something that I was.  There was no depth to my faith growing up, and I would venture to say I was not the only one.  I often wonder how many of us go through the motions like that. I often

By: Thomas Clayton Booher 1 Peter 2:9   that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light Peter begins his first epistle by identifying the recipients as the pilgrims of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia  (1:1) .  Exactly  what the Dispersion refers to is not entirely agreed upon by Bible scholars and commentators.   One commentator  correlates the word, dispersion (Greek  diaspora ), with the LXX  translation of Deuteronomy 28:25,  [Thou] shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth  (KJV). The translators used the same word. He considers it the first use as a technical designation of Jews who lived outside of Palestine. On that basis, he believes Peter is writing to Jews who, by their own choice, are living in the regions listed in verse one. There is merit to that idea as there was a general division of labor between Paul and Peter, wherein Paul ministered among the Gentiles while