The words of the LORD are pure words. —Psalm 12:6a

Posts by J.D. Grimes (Page 3)

Could we be doing it wrong?

In two previous posts, we’ve considered how the church currently seems to be in need of revival, and also outlined the Biblical ministry of admonition from God’s word, which directs us to not receive the grace of God in vain. We have thus demonstrated that the church is experiencing symptoms that indicate a grave problem, and we’ve prescribed the method of applying…

Beseeching the Church

In a prior post we’ve considered how there appears to be some grave problems with the church in America. Our culture has entered a steady descent into depravity, which the church has not been able to stop. We thus concluded that in order to revive our culture and our nation, we’ll first need to revive ourselves, the church. This means that we…

The Church in Sodom

What if there was church in Sodom, that Lot attended every week? And what if that church was actually there before the city, and Sodom and Gomorrah grew up around it. Would you say that maybe that church had a problem?

Well, just such a church exists. In what city, you ask? It’s called America.

Hope Against Hope

In Genesis 12:2 God made a promise to Abraham, that many Americans wanted to cash in on this election season: “I will make of thee a great nation.” Four more times in Genesis God would affirm this promise, and reveal more to Abraham about how He would bring it to pass. And in this story of faith and struggle, we can find…

Modernizing the English Bible?

In a previous post, we considered all of the different Modern English translations of the pure text of the scriptures, and concluded that the King James Bible is the pure and faithful word of God in English. However, it was translated in 1611, over 400 years ago, and so naturally its language it not entirely familiar to the modern reader. And so…

Faithful Translations: English

In a previous post we’ve considered principles that we can use to identify whether a translation of the scriptures is pure and faithful. In this post we’ll use these principles to determine which translation is God’s pure and perfect words in English. There are hundreds of translations into Modern English, and attempting to examine all of them would be tedious indeed, if…

Psalms and Election 2016

While The Psalms Project is not a political organization, the book of Psalms is a political book: it reveals to those who will look the glories of the coming kingdom of Christ, and the historical backdrop for that revelation is filled with kingdoms, kings, and princes; justice, oppression, corruption, conspiracy, and intrigue. There is therefore much wisdom that we can gain from…

Faithful Translations

In part four of the Our Beliefs series, we discussed how God has promised to keep his very words in the mouth of his people. He promised not just to preserve his written words, but to preserve them in a form that his people can speak and understand. Through his Spirit within his servants, he guides the process of translation so that…

Our Beliefs: Translation

This is the fourth in a series of posts detailing each of our beliefs about the Bible expressed on the Our Beliefs page. [We believe that] the words of the LORD are pure, and that these pure words are contained in the Received Text, including faithful translations. In the first three parts of this series, we’ve considered how God originally inspired the…