Why I Am Not A Dispensationalist

Dispensationalists claim that the promises to Abraham can only be inherited by his physical descendents. Last time, I argued from Genesis 12...

Throughout Genesis 12-17, God makes promises to Abraham’s descendents. A question that divides theologians is this: Who are the descendents ...

The NT writers' use of the OT can be a complicated issue. I don’t pretend to have it all figured out. However, the Dispensational approa...

One of the chief reasons that many are drawn to Dispensationalism is because of their commitment to the Scriptures. Dispensationalists claim...

With regard to the OT and the NT, no one argues for strict continuity or strict discontinuity. That is, everyone believes in some continuity...

As one moves from Dispensationalism to a Reformed understanding of the Scriptures, one must undergo a paradigm shift. I have compared this t...

Leaving Dispensationalism behind was a long process for me. It was not something that happened overnight, nor was it just a matter of tweaki...

When I ran in Dispensational circles, I was frequently told that those who left Dispensationalism for Reformed Theology did so because they...

In the middle of my fourth year in seminary, I embraced paedobaptism. This was the biggest hurdle because infant baptism is frequently portr...

During my third year in seminary, I could no longer accept the dispensational distinction between Israel and the church. I saw much more con...

At the end of my first year in seminary, Big Red and his family moved into our apartment complex, which allowed us to continue our theologic...

We moved to Los Angeles in July of 1999 to attend The Master’s Seminary. During one of our first Sundays at Grace Community Church, we met ...

I was introduced to dispensationalism at the age of twelve by the movie, A Thief in the Night . A couple of years later, I was attending a C...

I started this blog because I hope 1) to assist those who have questions about dispensationalism and 2) to challenge those who are committed...