Recently my friend Shaun asked me a question about the meaning of a couple of Greek words---and his question was such a good one that I decided to answer it with a blog post. Here's what Shaun texted me: μετανοέω [metanoeō] means, repent, or turn around. The same word used in Acts 2:38 is used…
Recently I posted an article responding to Damon Richardson’s mishandling of the Greek text of Acts 2:38. In return Damon has offered a response in one of the most scholarly ways possible: on Facebook. I have provided screenshots of his social media diatribe below. In this present article I will be addressing Damon’s “worded response.”…
On March 9th of this year Bishop Kevin L. Betton Sr., Elder Kevin L. Betton Jr., and Pastor Damon Richardson conducted a Facebook Live video "The Danger of False Doctrine." The main purpose of this nearly two hour long video was to refute Oneness Pentecostalism; because of the length of this video, it would be…
This is a guest article by my good friend Josh Roman. We attended the same church for many years and he is a student of the word! Hopefully I can convince him to do more of these in the future. Thanks Josh! One of the scariest revelations I’ve ever come to understand is this: I can…
Recently my friend Peyton Gurley read my article There Is No Such Thing As A Music Minister. Apparently it didn’t set too well with my friend, because he wrote a review of it on his own blog. Even before I saw Peyton’s response I had been studying this issue in greater depth, and had come…
2019 is behind us now, and we are already half-way through January. The new year has begun (but sorry y'all, the new decade doesn't start until 2021)! At the end of an old year, we tend to make resolutions for the new one---we want to learn an instrument, learn a language, read more books, or…
Earlier this year the trinitarian apologist Michael Burgos published an article on the website Biblical Trinitarian, titled "A Look at Three Passages Oneness Pentecostals Use to Demonstrate that Jesus is the Father." In his article, Burgos attempts to refute the Oneness doctrine by challenging our exegesis of three key scriptural passages (viz., Isaiah 9:6, John…
Our Trinitarian friends tell us that God is three divine persons who all share the same essence. Therefore, they say, God can speak or be described with either singular or plural pronouns. The Trinitarian's go-to example for this alleged phenomenon is Genesis 1:26-27, "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our…
Another guest post by my wife Cheyanne. As usual, she has some awesome spiritual insights about what most of us wouldn't stop to meditate about! In the process of writing what became last week’s post I got curious about how trees are transplanted and pruned. So I went to faithful Elder Google and asked him a…
This article was a guest-post written by my wife Cheyanne. She looks at the world through spiritual eyes, finding life-lessons in what most of us overlook as ordinary. This post was inspired by our marriage, when she left her home and church in Florida and moved to the Midwest to be my wife. Be sure to…
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