Providence is Remarkable: providence does not answer the question

I was the guy the Strange Fire Conference was targeting.  Maybe targeting isn’t the best word choice given the confrontational positioning of the conference and the controversy that followed in its wake. What I mean to say is that I fit one of the demographic profiles of one of the groups the speakers hoped to reach. I am not a charismatic...

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If it's Not the Spirit, Who Gets the Credit?

I've been reading and listening to a lot of teaching on spiritual gifts over the last three months. And through that process, I've learned something about myself, much about my theological position, and a great deal about the position of those who disagree with me.  I’ve discovered that while I am quite confident in the validity...

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Confronting Common Arguments and Objections to the Continuation of the Charismatic Gifts — Objection 3

Fallible prophecy is an oxymoron. An infallible God cannot deliver fallible revelation.  This is a common misrepresentation of the continuationist understanding of New Testament prophecy. Neither, Wayne Grudem, nor any continuationist who agrees with him, believes that God gives fallible revelation today. On the contrary, continuationists hold that all revelation given by God is perfect, both in its content and its communication....

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Confronting Common Arguments and Objections to the Continuation of the Charismatic Gifts — Objection 2

If a person claims to have received a prophecy from God today, they need to issue an addendum to the Church and have every person who owns a Bible staple their new prophecy to the back of Revelation.  This objection presupposes that NT prophets only spoke that which was yet to be inscripturated by the Apostles; they spoke ex cathedra, meaning their utterances were infallible and the authority of their prophecies was universal...

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Confronting Common Arguments and Objections to the Continuation of the Charismatic Gifts — Objection 1

Modern day prophecy is incompatible with the Reformational doctrine of sola Scriptura; it undermines the Bible’s authority and sufficiency.  The Westminster Confession of Faith, Chapter 1, article 10, reads, The Supreme Judge, by which all controversies of religion are to be determined, and all decrees of councils, opinions of ancient writers, doctrines of men, and private spirits,1

 are to be examined, and in whose sentence...

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