Hometown Hope Ministries

The growing shortage of pastors in many rural and small-town churches raises important questions about how faithful pastoral care may be extended while preserving biblical church order and congregational autonomy. Over the past several years, I have become increasingly burdened by a reality that many pastors already recognize: an alarming number of churches, particularly in rural communities and small towns, struggle to obtain and retain faithful pastoral leadership. Some chu

If no essential doctrine is completely removed, why do textual differences matter at all? This article examines several major Christological variants and explores the deeper issues of preservation, doctrinal clarity, and confidence in the text of Scripture.

The issue before us is not whether repentance is affirmed in our theology. It is whether it is still present in our preaching. When repentance is absorbed into faith, nothing is explicitly denied—but something is quietly lost: the directness of God’s call to turn. And Scripture never treats that call as implied. It proclaims it.

Confidence in God’s Word — resting in His promise to preserve the Scriptures for every generation. Not long ago, I was in a conversation with someone, and this person said to me that he knew someone that could "tear the King James Version apart.” The implication was not subtle: His statement implied that generations of Christians had placed their trust in a deeply flawed text, and the matter was supposedly obvious to anyone who had carefully studied the evidence. The statemen

The apostles repeatedly affirm that there is one Lord, one faith, and one gospel grounded in the saving work of Christ. The purpose of this article, therefore, is not merely to define two phrases (Kingdom of God and Kingdom of Heaven), but to examine how the New Testament actually uses kingdom language and to demonstrate that these expressions do not introduce a new redeemer or a new plan of salvation.

For generations, gospel preaching included a clear call to repentance and faith. In recent decades, however, repentance has often been minimized or redefined as merely a “change of mind” detached from turning from sin. This study examines the biblical meaning of repentance and traces how its language—and meaning—shifted within modern soul-winning methods, calling pastors back to the full gospel proclaimed in Scripture (Acts 20:21)

Over the course of four plus decades of ministry, I have occasionally been confronted with the subject of textual variability among the various families of manuscripts. Manuscript evidence, although it escapes the notice of most Christians, has been of great interest to me. Few subjects in biblical studies are as vital—and as misunderstood—as the question of textual stability. For generations, scholars and believers alike have asked whether the New Testament text has been fai