In this week's video podcast, Richard Barcellos and John Divito discuss their upcoming mission trip to train pastors in Nambia: Q&A with Dr. Barcellos and John Divito from MCTS on Vimeo.
Am I Called to the Ministry?
From talking with many other men who desire to serve Christ in the ministry, I know that we often struggle to know whether we are called by our Savior to serve Him as a pastor. The question "Am I called to the ministry?" is a personal one for me, which is why I have...
Family-Integrated Church 17: Samuel, Jesus, and Paul (Part 1)
The Family-Integrated Church movement condemns the idea of age-segregated Sunday School classes. They do this in the context usually of a strong commitment to home-schooling. This raises the suspicion that they are against anyone teaching children except their parents...
MCTS Podcast 15: Changes, They are a Coming
The MCTS video podcasts are back! In our latest interview, Dr. Waldron and Dr. Barcellos discuss some changes coming to the Midwest Center for Theological Studies. Q&A with Drs. Waldron and Barcellos #8 from MCTS on Vimeo.
Tom Wells’ book on the Sabbath: Chapter Three (VI)
A detailed examination of all the passages in the Gospels where Christ discusses the issue of the Sabbath will show that he never predicted its abolition, nor did he ever profane it.
Family-Integrated Church 16: Of Nurseries
Both Scott Brown and Voddie Baucham incorporate a rejection of nurseries for children during church services into their program of family-integrated ministry in the church. Voddie remarks: “I believe one of the greatest crutches in the church is the nursery....
Tom Wells’ book on the Sabbath: Chapter Three (V)
Tom Wells’ book on the Sabbath: Chapter Three (IV) Mark 2:23-28 narrates another incident between Jesus and his disciples and the Pharisees. Jesus was “passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples began to make their way along while...
Brief survey of the history of hermeneutics – 12. Post-Reformation Reformed Orthodoxy (I)
The theological methodology of the post-Reformation Reformed orthodox was, in the first place, exegetical.
Family-Integrated Church 15: Why the family-integrated church is not demanded by the regulative principle! (Part 2)
Last time I noted the argument for family-integrated views which Scott Brown in A Weed in the Church launches on the basis of the regulative principle of the church. My first counter-argument was that (1) leaving aside for the moment the issue of nurseries for babies...
Why the Prediction That Christ Would Come May 21 Was Wrong (Part 8 of 8)
I have one final observation to make on this whole debacle. When those who profess to be Bible-believing Christians with bold face claim to be able to decipher the time of Christ’s coming, we are apt to assume that the Bible must not be clear about this issue....
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