"All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name" If you can relate to the days of hymnals, you might have opened one in which "All Hail the Power of...

Introduction: Too often we hear preachers today thunder out the message--that is, if they preach with authority at all--that salvation is by grace alone , misquoting Ephesians 2:8-9 with no qualms. But I always want to shout back, "What have you done with 'through faith ?'" Yes, what have they done with it? And, even when they do include "through faith," what have they done with faith ? Like so many things these days, salvation, grace , and faith don't mean what the

What is the Spirit of our Age? We live in a day of lawlessness that has been allowed to redefine true salvation.  The spirit of the age has infected the gospel with antinomianism, cleverly disguising it as “grace.”  It has also mislabeled obedience as "legalism," going even so far as to call faith and repentance "works." But obedience has no more to do with legalism than antinomianism has to do with grace. In order to return to a Biblical view of salvation, we must expose

Introduction: Without a doubt, the wildly popular song, "I Speak Jesus," has commanded a prominent place on the stage of modern worship music. Having never heard of it until two years ago, I now seem to hear it everywhere. Yet, despite the song's powerful instrumentation and emotional appeal, it continues to unsettle my spirit as intensely as it did the night I first heard it. Researching the context behind the lyrics, in addition to studying the lyrics themselves, has