2022-09-2010Comments

Beware of Professional Weaker Brethren

When my daughter Katelynn was eleven, she wanted to start wearing make-up. I had a rule: No make-up at all until she is twelve. My wife did not agree with me. She thought I...

by C Michael Patton

Grace

Prolegomena

Theology

2021-03-176Comments

Expressing a Frustration About Christians Who Don’t Discriminate

There is no such thing as Christianity with without doctrine which discriminates true beliefs from false beliefs just as there is no such thing as a country without borders...

by C Michael Patton

Christian Life

Grace

2015-05-124Comments

Don’t Hold Your Hair Back when You Throw Up – Transparency and the Christian

About the Title The title of this post may be self-evident to some of you. Others clicked on this post just to know what I mean. The latter is confused by this cultural phrase...

by C Michael Patton

Grace

2015-03-146Comments

Four Characteristics of Legalism

Legalism is something we all lean toward in one way or another. Humanity has been plagued by this from the very beginning as we see in Job’s friends. Why is this? Well,...

2015-02-2482Comments

7 Things NOT to Say to a Depressed Christian 

Handling a Depressed Christian As many of you know, I’ve been depressed for almost five years now. I had a major break in March of 2010. It came out of nowhere and has been a...

2015-02-0312Comments

I Can’t Live According to Your Lists

To the legalist, almost everything is black and white. There are no grey areas. The Bible calls these “disputable areas” (Rom. 14:1). The historic church has...

by C Michael Patton

Christian Life

Grace

2014-11-206Comments

Why Country Music is So Popular (and What the Church Can Learn From it)

This month was the one year anniversary of my dad’s death. In memorial of this time, I have been catching up on my country music. I had not been able to listen to any...

2014-04-2517Comments

Why I Still Defend the Doctrine of Imputation

I have explained and confessed my belief in the doctrine of imputed sin, which is not a popular doctrine these days. It is one of the many doctrines that are being...

2014-04-1831Comments

Are We Really Held Guilty for the Sin of Another?

The concept of Original Sin has long been a vital part of Christian Orthodoxy, yet is being challenged and redefined by many in the Church today. Some are beginning to...

2014-03-0324Comments

The Resistibleness of Irresistible Grace

As a Calvinist, I don’t think grace is irresistible. Don’t get me wrong . . . I believe in all the “doctrines of Grace” that make one a certified...

by C Michael Patton

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