Fundamental Baptist Christian

There has been so many misconceptions about Calvinism that even some beloved brothers and sisters in the Lord Jesus have them. While I don't care too much if a person is Calvinist or non-Calvinist (and a non-Calvinist isn't automatically an Arminian) - there has been a serious and gross misrepresentation of Calvinism that needs to be addressed. This is the mistake that Calvinism or the doctrine of election is about saving people against their will when it isn't. So what drives people unto the Lord Jesus? John 6:44 has Jesus saying that no man can come unto Him except that the Father draws said person to Him. The great Reformed Baptist preacher Charles H. Spurgeon got it right when he said that people aren't saved against their will but they are made willing by the Holy Spirit. A good example of election and people made willing by the Holy Ghost is the conversion of Saul. If there's anything that Calvinist Christians can get it right - it's that they don'

Christmas is really the most commercialized holiday of the year, isn't it? Celebrating Christmas isn't inherently wrong while not celebrating it isn't wrong either. The problem today with the Christmas season may not be the season in itself but the people celebrating it. It's becoming more and more pagan or worldly each year. It's no surprise that the non-existent Santa Claus becomes the center of the world's Christmas than Jesus Christ Himself. Just think about it - a little child would think more of what Santa Claus may give or may even be wishing from said non-existent person for what the others have. If there's one commandment out of the Ten Commandments that get broken a lot during Christmas - it's most likely the tenth commandment namely "Thou shalt not covet." Covetousness is desiring something that's not yours and wanting to have what others have. You may not be necessarily desiring your neighbor's wife or husband (which is

It's no doubt that it's just a few days before Christmas. Christmas has been a time to look forward to for merrymaking (some even do it to the point of getting too drunk to do it), get together with the families, receiving a special year-end Christmas bonus and children look forward to their Christmas gifts. But do they ever even realize the ugly message of Christmas? Let's take a look at the reality of the Christmas message that gets read. We can read it in Matthew's and Luke's first two chapters. Matthew 1:21 says that Jesus came to save His people from their sins. Luke 1:47 has Mary declaring her need for a Savior. This addresses the ugly reality that man isn't basically good. The message of man's total depravity is offensive to mankind because men are prone to believe that they are basically good. The idea of man being basically good is a stranger to Scripture. One could go ahead and argue but Romans 3 talks about the total depravity of man. James

There's such a thing that your own words will condemn you. It reminds me of how a fake Catholic defender ended up refuting his own arguments when he said, "Read the Bible and you can't go wrong because salvation is found in Jesus Christ!" while believing that church membership is required for salvation and that Sola Scriptura is unscriptural. The same can be said with Benedict XVI with his quote about the blessed Mary, the earthly mother of Jesus. To dismiss Benedict XVI's statement because he's a Roman Catholic is to commit the Ad Hominem fallacy. There is really truth in said statement in his book "An Invitation to Faith" when he said that Mary's greatness consists in one fact - she wants to magnify God and not herself! Mary said in Luke 1:47 that her soul rejoices in God her Savior. She was willing to do everything to do God's will and what is the Roman Catholic institution teaching about her? It's so sad how the Roman Catholic insti

It's really the painful truth that the Bible can't be understood by the unsaved. Tthe supernatural work of the Spirit of God is necessary to help people understand. What makes me baffled is how a certain Catholic tract even uses Luke 1:47 to defend the heresy that Mary is free of original sin. But do they even understand the context? Now let's check what Luke 1:46-47 says in a Roman Catholic translation which in my case - I usually prefer to use the Good News Translation: My heart praises the Lord; my soul is glad because of God my Savior. So how can it be that a sinless woman like Mary would still need a Savior? None. Only sinners need a Savior! Yet, it's baffling how a Roman Catholic tract even uses Luke 1:47 to defend the doctrine that Mary is supposedly born without sin. As said, obvious context is obvious but the truth is that Scriptures are spiritually discerned. It doesn't matter how plain and simple and how bright as day the truth is but eyes blinded

Well it's December 6 (the traditional Roman Catholic feast day of Nicholas of Myra) and there's still that ongoing need to keep refuting foolish parenting notions such as nothing is wrong with lying to children about Santa Claus. Some can even argue that it's no different than me being taken to see an event where there's a Mickey Mouse or any cartoon-character related mascot. But this is where difference between seeing a child to see "Mickey Mouse" and Santa Claus step in? One could think that a child seeing Mickey Mouse usually knows he's not seeing the fictional character called Mickey Mouse. It's just like hosting a birthday party and the child is aware that the mascot is just an employee wearing a suit pretending to be Mickey Mouse. It's just like having a McDonald's or Jollibee party. Most of the time, children know that the mascots are just people in suits. Parents usually have the audacity to tell them that Mickey Mouse is just a pret

What does it gain one to get the whole world yet lose one's soul? This is the vibrant testimony of Boun Chuan who was once a Communist director general became a Christian and lost everything he once had. You can think of how many people have converted from becoming persecutors to persecuted. You can talk about the testimony of Saul of Tarsus leaving his affluent position with the Pharisees for Christ, Matthew and later Zaccheus  left the job of a dirty publican for Christ, some Romans under the service of cruel Roman emperors got converted - the story of Boun Chan is no different! The idea of risking one's life for a Bible sounds absurd to human ears. But you can't get wrong because the Bible is indeed the Word of God. Boun Chan could stand all the torture and starvation for the name of Christ - but he could never stand a day without a Bible. He took every risk to keep reading it and he would get tortured standing for God's truth. But no amount of pressure from an at

I remembered the time I was in a Baptist school, I got saved and I was soon bound for every insult the world could give to me. One of them was that I was old-fashioned because of my beliefs. I remembered one time that the school was called "old-fashioned" but why? While there are times I could criticize the school's refusal to make some adjustments (such as keeping typewriters or not getting a new textbook) but most of the criticism that happened could be summarized in the hymn called "The Old Fashioned Way". 1 They call me old-fashioned because I believe That the Bible is God’s holy Word, That Jesus, who lived among men long ago, Is divine, and the Christ of God.  Chorus;  My sin was old-fashioned, My guilt was old-fashioned, God’s love was old-fashioned, I know; And the way I was saved was the old-fashioned way, Thro' the blood that makes whiter than snow.  2 Old-fashioned, because I believe and accept Only what has been spoken from heav’

It's December 1 and Christmas isn't the only thing in the air. We've got World AIDS Day too. World AIDS day is an international day to help raise awareness of the deadliness of AIDS. It's a noble cause yet there's one concern that must be raised - how useless it is to have an awareness for AIDS if there's no Gospel preaching. I remembered how Dr. John F. MacArthur once preached about the dangers of moral reform without Jesus. The same can be true for any moral reform movement that only seeks to reform humanity without the Gospel of Jesus Christ. So how are the people who usually get Acquired Immune Defiency Syndrome or AIDS? Below is a table of those who are at the high risk are the following according to the World Health Organization : 75% is really a huge number isn't it? This chart reveals that sex workers, homosexuals who engage in sodomy, drug addicts, transgenders and prisoners tend to have a high AIDS rate. Now, AIDS doesn't discriminate

If Halloween (which also happens on the same day as Reformation Day) isn't the only big opportunity for soulwinning - Christmas is as well and it's the first day of December. Personally, I don't feel like celebrating Christmas because of all the misfortunes and mischief that fall upon people. The rush traffic hours, people asking for the license to sin, the prevalence of drunkenness and gluttony - it should be safe to say why Charles H. Spurgeon changed his mind on 1871 about Christmas. He writes this as the beginning of his said Christmas sermon of said year: WE HAVE NO superstitious regard for times and seasons. Certainly we do not believe in the present ecclesiastical arrangement called Christmas: first, because we do not believe in the mass at all, but abhor it, whether it be said or sung in Latin or in English; and, secondly, because we find no Scriptural warrant whatever for observing any day as the birthday of the Saviour; and, consequently, its observance is a sup