The Tulip Driven Life

We take things for granted sometimes. The friends we have, our family, our home, we all recognize, or at least I hope we do, that these are gifts from God. Gracious gifts- we wouldn’t have them unless He had provided them for us. I do wonder though- is this just lip service? When we thank God for providing the food when we eat a meal, do we really know what we are talking about? In what way did He provide it for us? It wasn’t His hands that that got the vegetables from the fields, the fruit from the trees, and the meat from the animal. Sure, He provided the field, the tree, and the animal. Yes, He let the crops grow, He allowed the   trees to bring forth fruit, and the animals are available to be killed for eating. But really, if God is loving and all-powerful, if He controls all things, does He really need to be praised for this? Perhaps, is the better question, “Why wouldn’t God cause a bountiful harvest, fresh springs bubbling forth pure water, and livestock aplenty for m...

Firstly, let me say that this is one of the few blogs that I have written in my life that I am not at least about 98 percent sure that what I am saying is actually the correct interpretation of Scripture. While I am fairly confident in my position on this, I am not to the point where I cannot be dissuaded to see things from the presuppositonal position, or more specifically, I am not yet to the point where I believe my interpretation of Romans 1 is certainly the correct one. There are things I am absolutely, 100 percent sure of, such as Calvinism, the gospel of Jesus Christ, the deity of Christ, the Trinity, The sinlessness of Christ, the penal substitutionary atonement, Christ’s resurrection, etc. Other things, like the cessation of tongue speaking and prophecy, I am about 98 percent confident in. Other things, like whether or not we should baptize infants, I am about 51 percent confident in lol. I am about 85 percent sure that all babies are elect. I am about 70 percent sure that if ...