Ancient cities built amazing walls, fortifications that turned their cities into fortresses. One morning a few days ago I woke up at the end of a dream. I saw a huge castle-like fortress that represented the power or strength of …
Peace with the Palestinians, The Great Assumption, and the Israel Elections
Although Benjamin Netanyahu professed that he accepted a two-state solution for the Palestinians of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) in 2009, it is quite clear that he and his Likud Party are really against a two-state solution as are …
Unity and Fear of Ecumenicism, Essay 18
I have a little book, a reprint of the 1946 100th-year anniversary edition, of a short history of the World Evangelical Alliance. One of the goals of the WEA was to promote the John 17:21 unity of the Church. This …
The Identity of Messianic Jews and Dispensationalism, Essay 17
When the first Messianic Jewish Congregations were beginning in North America (1970-1975), there was quite a bit of attack against the new Messianic Jewish movement. We were told we were, “Confusing law and grace,” “Re-erecting the wall of partition” and …
Dispensational Fundamentalism Part II, Essay 16
How dispensationalism swept the American Evangelical World in the first part of the 20th century is an amazing story. With the Schofield Reference Bible and its notes becoming the Bible of the Evangelical world, the domination was complete. Yes, …
The Necessity of Worldview Rooting for Dialogue
We are living in an age when there is a profound clash of world views, the classic western worldview and the modern atheist/agnostic worldview. The latter can accept some aspects of eastern mysticism but not any concrete faith that provides …
Tikkun Means Restoration
Recently I read two books that prompted this article on the theology of Tikkun Global. The first was an amazing, definitive book by Jon Mark Ruthven, The Cessation of the Charismata and a short history of the World Evangelical Alliance …
Dispensational Fundamentalism Part II, #16
In our last essay, we noted the origins of the term “Fundamentalism” in the series on the Fundamentals published from 1909 onward and then connected to the Niagara Conferences. It was a scholarly and amazing series that included Orthodox Evangelicals …
Astronomy and Atheist Propaganda
The other evening, I was watching the news. There was an interview with an astronomer touting the amazing capability of the new telescope that was way more powerful than the famous Hubble telescope. We now see, due to the penetration …
Dispensational Fundamentalism Gains Dominance in American Evangelicalism, Essay 15
This essay is part one of two essays on Dispensational Fundamentalism. In the last half of the 19th century, critical approaches to the Bible began to make inroads into several of the mainline Protestant denominations. Their leaders did not deny …