The Tulip Driven Life

By: Thomas F. Booher Without the gospel, we are lost. Without the gospel, we have nothing. I can think of no greater truth than the truth of the cross. I can think of no greater need than a recovery of the truth of the cross in our churches. As American culture continues to slip and slide into secularism, as unbelievers increasingly overthrow their consciences, the Christian church will be seen as the most peculiar institution in existence. This means you and I will be seen as the most peculiar people in our land. This is a scary thing, perhaps, but it is not necessarily a bad thing. When persecution comes, and Christ promises that it will come, we have opportunity to stand firm and faithfully. We have the privilege and duty to speak the truth, to shine light into the darkness. But our own light has been partially eclipsed by the darkness of the world. Obviously, light cannot be dimmed by darkness, for darkness is the absence of light. Yet we Christians too often fear the darknes...

Reformation Bible College God’s Ignoble Gambit: How Free Will Destroys the Cross Doctrine of Christ By Thomas Booher Sanford, Florida May 2012             No matter how you dice it, the fall of man necessitated the death of Christ if God were to provide salvation. While the argument over the means of receiving salvation has often centered on free will versus election, most have opted to take some route through the Bible that has God allowing man to fall of his own free will, hoping to get God off the hook for the entrance of evil into humanity. If He creates man with the ability to choose obedience or disobedience, the choice itself is entirely up to man. This allegedly keeps God free of the charge of being an evil architect. Closer inspection will reveal that it is when God is not the first cause of evil’s existence that His goodness is lost. It i...

                What is love? Love is reflecting God’s character, his attributes, in its totality, in a certain way.  It is a certain spirit, or disposition with which we glorify God. It is glorifying God with a desire to glorify God, a passion, a delight in glorifying God. It is taking satisfaction in, joy from, glorifying God. 1 Corinthians further goes on to explain that love is patient, love is kind, is selfless, is not puffed up, etc. So love is a sort of way in which we obey God’s law for His glory. And according to 1 Corinthians 13, it profits us nothing and is still sin if we attempt to obey God’s law for His glory without love.                                 That is what I said towards the end of part 2 of this blog series. Now, I would like...

I have heard some who do not trust in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior from sin say that God dishonored His Son Jesus Christ by sending Him to live and die on the cross for sinners, bearing the penalty of sin of God's people in His own body on the cross. Some, I believe atheists Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, go so far as to say that what God did is equivalent to 'cosmic child abuse." Their argument is that God punished Jesus with sin that He did not commit, and God made Jesus do this, therefore, God is a terrible, abusive, evil parent. I want to briefly give Christians ammo to counter and disprove such an idiotic argument. Firstly, Jesus WANTED to do the will of His Father. In other words, God's plan to offer up Jesus as the sin bearer and substitute for His people is something that Jesus wanted to do. Nor did Jesus have to be talked into coming down to live and die for the salvation of sinners. There was no disagreement in the Godhead. Jesus, of His own f...