The Organizational Chart and Its Threat to Genuine Church Authority
The Organizational Chart and Its Threat to Genuine Church Authority
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Gordan Runyan discusses the implications for local church authority found in the greeting of Paul’s letter to the Colossians.
Empowering the Saints
Empowering the Saints
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In this episode, I will a share a recent sermon called The Empowerment of the Saints: Encouragement for the Individual Believer where we discuss Biblical consistency in the Church, giftedness of the Holy Spirit and a Biblical response to tyrannical church leaders who are disobedient to God’s Word or continuously manipulate it.
065: Should the Hymns We Sing Be Inspiring or Inspired?
065: Should the Hymns We Sing Be Inspiring or Inspired?
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In episode 65 of the Out of the Question Podcast, the place of the Book of Psalms in the life the church is discussed.
The Problem with Seminaries
Written by Gary North
So, you want to become a minister. First, however, you need training. You think you should go to seminary. A word of warning: seminaries are staffed by people who learned to write term papers in their teens or early twenties, and who then decided to parlay that peculiar skill into lifetime employment. Seminaries are not staffed by successful ex-pastors; successful pastors remain in the ministry. Seminaries are staffed by baptized college professors who chose to specialize in a field so obscure that no college has a sufficient number of students to make hiring them come close to paying off.
Boots On The Ground: Seminaries
Boots On The Ground: Seminaries
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Taking the aim at the Seminaries to purge the pulpits of the papists.
The Celebrity Cult
The Celebrity Cult
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“Ethically and judicially, making an authority of celebrities in the churches is not different than making an authority of celebrities in the political world.”
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– Moscow 1937, Karl Schlögel
Universal Suffrage: A History and Analysis of Voting in the Church and Society
Written by Dr. Phillip Kayser
Universal suffrage (the belief that every member can vote) in a congregation or in a state is a fairly recent phenomenon. It was not until the 1900s that there was any significant movement in this direction. Is this an improvement? Is it Biblical? Scripture definitely shines light on one of the most significant developments of the 20th century.
Confessions Of An Overbearing Elder
Confessions Of An Overbearing Elder
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In this episode, we will discuss several issues plaguing the current discussion on ecclesiology and the consequences of following an improper view to its end result.
MIC Wanna-Be Delivered Through Facebook Controversies
MIC Wanna-Be Delivered Through Facebook Controversies
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Pastor Gordan Runyan documents the true story of a pastor who, while aspiring to climb the MIC ladder, was confronted by the Spirit of God, was granted repentance, and was set free through the grace of Christ. Of special note are the instruments God used to both spark and complete this deliverance: Two Facebook scuffles that many assumed could never yield any good fruit.
Five Priorities Tyrants Routinely Trample
Five Priorities Tyrants Routinely Trample
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Gordan Runyan, from Immanuel Baptist Church in Tucumcari, NM brings a message about how the aim and objective of all kinds of tyrants routinely set themselves against what God says is a priority.