Pastors H.B. Charles & Ralph West talk about the celebrating, whooping, and intoning tradition of black american pastors. From part 2 of H.B Charles' conversation with Dr. Ralph Douglas West, Senior-Pastor of the Church Without Walls in Houston, TX. Ephesians 5:18-21 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. Making the Best of the Boring Parts of the Bible - John Piper (Numbers) Q&A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2ZraODIiuQ Part 2...Pastor HB Charles Jr and Dr. Ralph West Pastoral Journey Experience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_HjEjqxg5c H.B. Charles, Pastor-Teacher at the Shiloh Metropolitan Baptist Church of Jacksonville & Orange Park, Florida https://www.hbcharlesjr.com/ Ralph Douglas West, Pastor of the Church Without Walls in Houston, Texas https://churchwithoutwalls.org/

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Celebrating, Whooping, Intoning Tradition - H.B. Charles Jr & Dr. Ralph West

Francis loves the Jehovah Witnesses that visited him & walked off talking with them. 2 Timothy 2: 24-26 Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels. And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, table to teach, patiently enduring evil, correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will. [Book] Marks of the Messenger: Knowing, Living and Speaking the Gospel $13 https://www.amazon.com/Marks-Messenger-Knowing-Living-Speaking-ebook/dp/B003DZ00T0/ref=as_li_ss_tl?crid=3ANVOR72W3GB4&keywords=mack+stiles+evangelism&qid=1554132153&s=gateway&sprefix=mack+stules,aps,539&sr=8-3&linkCode=ll1&tag=theology06-20&linkId=e9db0b47be88891fa19303fe06786881&language=en_US Francis Chan on What's Wrong with the Prosperity Gospel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sLFgC4cRuI Are Lukewarm Christians Saved? - Francis Chan Q&A [Revelation 3:16-17] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOlHsqDr8Nc Visit Francis http://crazylove.org/ Visit our forum website https://thetheology.org

Francis Chan Loves Jehovah Witnesses, Answered Prayer? [2 Timothy 2:24-26]

How do you get perspective on your own culture? Do you go outside of it? How do you create a more multicultural church? [Book $20] Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City; by Timothy Keller This Q&A followed the talk at https://vimeo.com/59751785. For all videos and resources, go to centerchurch.com. Common Contextualization Mistakes Pastors Make? - Tim Keller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxRguKvZkM4 Philippians 2:3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Visit us: https://thetheology.org

How to Get Perspective on your Own Culture? - Tim Keller [Q&A Forum]

Timothy what are some of the common mistakes you see pastors make when it comes to contextualization? What are the dangers for those who are too far inside their own culture and can't see it? 2:12 [Book $20] Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City; by Timothy Keller This Q&A followed the talk at https://vimeo.com/59751785. For all videos and resources, go to centerchurch.com. Why Fight Racial Prejudice? - John Piper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSLWjNdrcvI 2 Corinthians 12:10 That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. Visit us: https://thetheology.org

Common Contextualization Mistakes Pastors Make? - Tim Keller [Q&A Forum]

How Do Introverts Guard Against Selfishness? Instead of seeing introversion as a fatalistic limitation, ask, “How can I make my peculiar personality bent a means of grace to others?” Introverts and extroverts — it seems like a useful designation for personality types. Even if they’re not biblical categories, they lead to an interesting conversation for Christians, and to this question today from a middle-aged man. “Pastor John, how can I tell if I am being introverted in social settings or simply being selfish? Is this something you have ever struggled with? Are there strategies for an introvert to grow in social selflessness, kindness, and love, without feeling a false guilt for not being an extrovert?” Episode 1284: https://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/how-do-introverts-guard-against-selfishness 1 Peter 4:10 As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace: “The Secret to Fighting Anxiety” https://youtu.be/ubSnOIjhSzc “Make War on Your Urge to Sulk” https://youtu.be/ior4G8XHt_c Your Weakness Should Drive You to God - Paul Washer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgmrAtsI4KY The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian World [$17 Book] https://amzn.to/2V8RrVq Visit us https://thetheology.org

How Introverts Guard Against Selfishness? - John Piper Q&A [1 Peter 4: 10]

"but, we also have to step back and say the term social justice has a pedigree within christian conversation long before the Marxist appropriation of the term and to understand the scripture in cohesive whole of the OT & NT (here's biblical theology again) in the flow of biblical history there is no question about justice being first & foremost God's own infinite perfection and apart of what it means to be made in God's image is that we are accountable to divine justice and to seeking through human flourishing to see God's justice reflected in a fallen world. It becomes more necessary as our concern..." 3:45 "In Deuteronomy, one of the headings is "Teachings on Social Justice". Now that doesn't come from the Frankfurt School. That's not coming from Marxism that's coming from reading Deuteronomy. This is just a very important issue to think about. So in other words we could use the word "Social Justice" and I'm reluctant to use the term generally. I'm talking about justice, which always I think in a biblical frame means an individual responsibility, but it relates also to society. Just read the prophets in the OT..." 4:56 "I'm very concerned about the issue of race as related to the statement and I don't want to read bad motivations on the people who may have signed the statement, but The statement itself i think makes it very difficult to acknowledge the reality of the sin of race on american society and even in american Christianity so that's something that concerns me greatly." What part of the social justice & Gospel statement did you disagree with? 15:38 FULL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPVv-GxjmZE Get the Christian Forums App Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zeeroapps.thetheology&hl=en iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/christian-forum-theology/id1336207322?mt=8 Or visit http://thetheology.org/ Why Fight Racial Prejudice? - John Piper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSLWjNdrcvI

Social Justice & Issues with Parts of Social Justice Statement - Albert Mohler Q&A

In 1 Corinthians 5: 12 Paul tells us we are to judge those within the church yet in Romans 14: 13 there he says we are not to judge one another... In what way if any are Christians to judge one another? 1 Corinthians 5: 9-13 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people—not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one. For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.” Romans 14: 13 Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother. More from John MacArthur on topic https://www.gty.org/library/bibleqnas-library/QA0078/to-judge-or-not-to-judge [$12 book] Strange Fire by John MacArthur https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Fire-Offending-Counterfeit-Worship/dp/B00G3JI6RQ/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1534802669&sr=8-1&keywords=john+macarthur+strange+fire&linkCode=ll1&tag=theology06-20&linkId=21e51bf90beba3c2be1508d23459e13a&language=en_US Bewitched by False Doctrine - John MacArthur https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ol_SscYtFc Should we Listen to Hillsong Music (even their good stuff) - Justin Peters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsynnbWCnVo Visit us https://thetheology.org Get the Christian Forums App Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zeeroapps.thetheology iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/christian-forum-theology/id1336207322?mt=8

To Judge or Not to Judge? - John MacArthur [1 Corinthians 5: 9-13 Q&A]

Matt Chandler on the popular "Just Wait" theology. From "The Mingling of Souls" series minglingofsouls.com... "What we are told, specifically the young ladies, is if they'll be content God will give them a man." [$14 Book] The Mingling of Souls: God's Design for Love, Marriage, Sex, and Redemption https://www.amazon.com/Mingling-Souls-Design-Marriage-Redemption/dp/1434706869/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=ll1&tag=theology06-20&linkId=ad4937861d75977d8866076e31ff0359&language=en_US Visit us https://thetheology.org Get the Christian Forums App Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zeeroapps.thetheology&hl=en_US iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/christian-forum-theology/id1336207322?mt=8 Should I let go & Let God? Quietism? - R.C. Sproul https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoR-0WonxnA

Be Content, Wait, & God will Send you a Man? A Joke Right? Matt Chandler

John Piper on Racial Prejudice. "If you stood in awe of the alien distance that he crossed to get his arms around you, to die for you, you couldn't not act in accord with it." James 2: 15 - 20 If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder! Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless? How to Understand and Address White Privilege - Village Church Matt Chandler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TGaMBqaCE4 Visit Us https://thetheology.org Does Racism Exist in the Church? - Thabiti Anyabwile & R.C. Sproul Jr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_H1pBEd0_Y What Does it Mean to Love? - John Piper (1 John 3: 16 - 19) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilFdkjIQncI

Why Fight Racial Prejudice? - John Piper

How to Understand and Address White Privilege by Pastor Matt Chandler of the Village Church (resources). Particularly for Americans but applicable to majority populations worldwide. "When you open up your news paper or you open a magazine you're gonna see Anglos portrayed mostly in a positive sense. If you go to buy your kids toys or buy a little book its going to be pretty easy to just find kids that look like them on the cover so we don't know what its like to look around Barnes and Noble for 15 minutes trying to find a book about a little girl growing up that looks like our little girl or like a little boy that looks like our little boy. Like we never had to struggle with that, we don't get anxious every time we open up a newspaper about how we'll be portrayed." The Village Church Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/villageChurchTX Visit Us https://thetheology.org Does Racism Exist in the Church? - Thabiti Anyabwile & R.C. Sproul Jr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_H1pBEd0_Y Social Justice and Young Evangelicals: Encouragements and Concerns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6SdmvasLaQ

How to Understand and Address White Privilege - Village Church Matt Chandler

My question is about the origin of evil. In my understanding of reformation theology: evil exists to better glorify God as all of creation. But theologians have always said "God is not the author of evil" why is he not the author of evil? God Decrees & Ordains?,Al Mohler in partnership with Ligonier Ministries responds. Visit Al: https://albertmohler.com Visit us https://thetheology.org/forum/god-the-author-of-sin/ Get the Christian Forums App Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zeeroapps.thetheology&hl=en_US iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/christian-forum-theology/id1336207322?mt=8 Romans 8: 28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. Why Does God Allow Child Suffering? - Francis Chan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TKlRV5hjaI What is Total Depravity? - Paul Washer [Genesis 6:5, 8:21, Romans 3:23] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAGloeBs0Cg Did God Preordain Sin? - John MacArthur & R.C. Sproul [Romans 8 and 9 Rev 5:12] Q&A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM5R0ONqiTI

Why is God Not the Author of Evil, if it Exists for his Glory? - Albert Mohler Q&A

Why Do Catholics Pray to Mary? Co-Redemptrix? MIchael Revees answer. Acts 4: 12 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” Visit us https://TheTheology.org Get the Christian Forums App Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zeeroapps.thetheology&hl=en_US iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/christian-forum-theology/id1336207322?mt=8 Visit John https://desiringgod.org/interviews/why-do-catholics-pray-to-mary Can a Devout Roman Catholic Be Genuinely Born Again? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGDbkGNwSE4 What is the Reformation? - Steve Lawson Q&A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBz2DxpNo24 3 Steps to Stop Wasting Your Life - John Piper [Proverbs 3:5 - 6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjax30D4vjU

Why Do Catholics Pray to Mary? - MIchael Revees Q&A

Anything good at all to learn from MLK Jr? Is there anything we can learn from False Christians & Gospel deniers? Should we condemn like minded people solely due to dissimilar methods? Questions from Thabiti Anyabwile. Kevin Smith and Curtis Woods respond. This discussion forum is a snippet from the 2nd Panel Session of the 2018 T4G Conference. http://t4g.org/media/2018/04/50-years-mlk/ (Full) If there is anyone who served as an example of giving everything to loving the least of these it's Dr. King. So I feel like when we think about his vices we should push towards also thinking critically about his virtues. - Curtis Woods Disagreeing on methods (between Christians) certainly should not cause us to question another brother's love for the LORD - Kevin Smith Visit us https://thetheology.org Visit T4G http://t4g.org Does Racism Exist in the Church? - Thabiti Anyabwile & R.C. Sproul Jr [Q&A] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_H1pBEd0_Y Did God Preordain Sin? - John MacArthur & R.C. Sproul [Romans 8 and 9 Rev 5:12] Q&A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM5R0ONqiTI

Learning from Non-Christians, Triggered Name Calling, Dissimilar Methods - Kevin Smith, Curtis Woods

"Blood of Jesus"/ "Blood of the Cross" are Euphemisms for his violent death? or did the blood of Jesus have divine power to atone & should we reject the Hypostatic Union of Jesus? Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, Why Jesus had to Die - Thabiti Anyabwile Q&A (5min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwDZaEG0mSY Prosperity Gospel Good Enough to Save? - James White (3min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK_4lH75-mQ Visit Forum https://thetheology.org

Saved by The Blood of Jesus? Or By His Death? - John MacArthur Q&A [Romans 6:23]

Dr. Steven J. Lawson of One Passion Ministries leads a bible study covering Romans 1:19 - 23. This bible study is live streamed in partnership with Believer's Chapel in Dallas, TX, where Dr. Lawson serves as Minister At Large. Learn More at: http://www.believerschapeldallas.org You can find the weekly #BibleStudy livestream here http://www.onepassionministries.org/the-mens-bible-study/ Romans 1:19 - 23 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. Romans 1-8 MacArthur NT Commentary $12-$24 https://www.amazon.com/Romans-1-8-MacArthur-Testament-Commentary-ebook/dp/B0037B6R2E/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1495769254&sr=8-1&keywords=romans+commentary+macarthur&linkCode=ll1&tag=theology06-20&linkId=bbcab33c91de392c7ef70144d2bc864c

Romans 1:19 - 23 Bible Study - Dr. Steven J Lawson

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