Dan Greenfield

  • A Fitting Start

    God’s intended purposes (“administration,” oijkonomian, v. 5) are never accomplished by “strange doctrines” (eJterodidaskalevw, 1 Tim 1:3). God’s intended purposes involve a heart that produces genuine love, a correctly guided conscience, and genuine faith (v. 5). It is only by biblical instruction (paraggeliva, vv. 5, 18) that one may “fight the good fight” (v. 18). Read more

  • Invitations

    Today I spent some time studying church covenants. In the process I came across a totally unrelated but interesting little tidbit from Leon McBeth’s The Baptist Heritage. While relating the beliefs and practices of the Sandy Creek Church, McBeth notes some differences between General and Separate Baptists. The distinctions between these two revolved around their Read more

  • Diligence

    Three times in his second epistle Peter exhorts believers thus: applying all diligence, in your faith supply…(1:5) be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you (1:10) be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless, blameless (3:14) Diligence is to be an essential aspect of my life, having Read more

  • Prayer Meeting

    They suffered countless ailments on each prayer meeting night,From whooping cough to measles, to deafness and poor sight;But strange to say their ailments come not at other times,For minstrel shows and movies, they have both health and time.The Bible Union Baptist, January 1928, p. 7 Read more

  • Future Expectation And Present Employment

    Paul’s point in 1 Thessalonians 5:1-10 is that because the Thessalonian believers are Christians, they will not suddenly find themselves present during the time of God’s end-time wrath, because “God has not destined them for wrath but for obtaining salvation” (5:9). The imminent event believers should expect is not wrath but salvation. This fact should Read more

  • The Assyrian-Philistine God Dagon

    While studying introductory material for a sermon series I’ll begin this week with Jonah, a Bible teacher from a past generation (James M. Gray) made this comment: To grasp the significance of the events in this chapter it is necessary to know that the Ninevites worshiped the fish God, Dagon, part human and part fish. Read more

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