A Call for Clarity regardng the Gospel.
Biblical faith and more to the point, saving faith, focus on the person and work of Christ and the Gospel message which speaks to a trust in the finished, fully sufficient work of Christ. “Believe in Jesus, trust Christ, follow Jesus, God loves you, accept Christ” and others, are wholly deficient and present and leave the hearer with a road map of their own making, with no address.
A response to the assassination of Charlie Kirk
Isaiah 5:20 (ESV) 20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
A Christian response to the assassination of Charlie Kirk
There have been a number of times that I found myself deeply angry over the evil that is in this world. This evil is sadly a part of the fall and the weight of the curse on creation.
Romans 8:19–22 (ESV) 19 For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.
What does True Faith Look Like? I believe that is exactly what James was arguing for In James 2:14-26.
Some have said that James is arguing that a person is saved by works. You can only draw that conclusion by “cherry picking” certain verses. It cannot be argued that the text (James 2:14-26) is teaching anything other than true faith always is demonstrated in good works or fruit that brings glory to the completely necessary and sufficient work of Jesus Christ on the cross, culminating in His resurrection ( I Corinthians 15:1-4, Ephesians 2:8-10).
God is never honored in our self-effort, no matter how righteous we may think it is. He deserves all the honor and glory for what He has created in us fully. Biblical Faith is what pleases God.
As the Reformers saw it, true biblical faith is the “sole instrumental cause” for our justification, sanctification, and ultimate glorification and all to the glory of God!
Hebrews 11:6 (ESV) 6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
What is a Biblical faith? Does faith have value and efficasy in of itself or is a true Biblical faith a trust grounded in obective truth.
For the Bible believing Christian, biblical faith finds it value and is efficacious based on the obect it is placed in. In the case of Biblical Christianity, it is a faith placed in the finished work of Christ in salvation and the power of the resurrected Christ in sanctification.
The theme of the book of Romans is found here in vv. 16-17; a righteousness based on faith and not works, available to all. It is the power of God In Salvation.
Every major doctrine of the Bibl
e can be found in Romans. But all those blessed truths would be meaningless to us apart from the impartation of the righteousness of God, his saving grace, through the work of Christ on the cross providing redemption to all who will believe.
Are you really Christo-Centric? And what does it mean and are your truly Christ centered? That is the Thrust of this video, to examine what it means to be truly Christo-Centric.
A New Domain for Men With Chests
On February 20th, 2025, we lost control of our domain; menwithchests.com It took a great deal of time to figure out what had happened and how to re-establish ourselves. Even at this date we are not entirely sure what exactly happened, whether we lost the domain as a result of missing a renewal or that the domain was stolen. But from 2/20/25 menwithchests.com was pointing people to a number of different websites that clearly were NOT owned by us and appeared to be phishing sites, and we had no control over the site. Since then, we have taken a number of extra security precautions and have re-established “Men With Chests” with a new domain; menwithchests.net. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Part of the reason for this and our hit and miss with articles and devotionals is due to deep personal events and changes that have taken place over the last 3 years. We are now relocated in Texas, South of the Houston metroplex in League City! And for the time being it will be a bit difficult to be regular with posts on this site until June or so of this year. But our goal is to be back on a regular basis in June or July. Until then we will post video devotions as time and circumstances allow. A lot is happening, and we will once again be moving in May, but just 40 miles from our current location in League City to Sugar Land, Texas.
The goal of “Men With Chests” is to grow into a significant ministry here on the Internet. Our prayer is that you all will stick with us as we continue to work our way to be a consistent YouTube and menwithchests.net ministry. Your prayers are greatly needed and wanted. In the near future we will become a non-profit corporation and establish ourselves as a full-time ministry with the intent of providing not only the video devotionals, but doctrinal video studies and articles and much more.
Thank you for your support and prayers!
Again, our new domain is:
The Here And Now
If you were to define the tense of the Gospel what would it look like to you? Paul speaks directly to that in Galatians 2:20.
Galatians 2:20 (ESV) 20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
It certainly would take us to the past and the historical facts that surround the work of Christ on the cross for the forgiveness of our sins as God the Father vented His wrath on His son whom me made to be sin for us. He imputed our sin onto Christ that we might be seen as righteous (2 Cor. 5:21).
We are saved by grace, kept by grace, but we are also to live by grace. Jesus’ work in us calls us to live by faith in the power of the cross.
We are crucified with Him (present tense) that the body of sin might be done away with and we are no longer under the slavery of sin.
Psalm 136 is a great Psalm to remind us of when we complain and forget the steadfast love of the Lord no matter what the circumstances.
Like Israel of old, we are every bit as prone to complaining and forgetting God’s steadfast love in our lives. The psalmist in Psalm 136 gives a short and poignant history of the nation of Israel and of us concerning our ungratefulness and tendency to revert to our flesh. This video speaks to our tendency to be ungrateful and forget the steadfastness of God’s love for His people.
There is a repeated refrain throughout the psalm in all 26 verses to draw our attention to the faithful love of God….
Psalm 136 (ESV) 17 … for his steadfast love endures forever;