The Watchman's Bagpipes

Profession of sound doctrine alone—that is, mere assent to propositional truth—is no substitute for a living faith. But apart from biblical ...

One might get quite caught up, for example, in singing about “Majesty” with hands raised, eyes closed and the body moving with the crowd and...

As the CCW movement has turned to “feeling” as the ultimate measure of spiritual authenticity it has ceased to worship the external, indepen...

When man makes his feeling the measure of spiritual matters he does little more than deny the God of the Scripture and set himself in His pl...

For individuals who are caught up in the heady intoxication of profound spiritual experiences, it is easy t slip into error.  Not that th...

If [Satan] can't take the Word of God away from us by undermining its authority, he will take us away from the Word of God by giving ...

Feelings come and feelings go And feelings are deceiving; My warrant is the Word of God,  Naught else is worth believing. Marti...

All the Puritans regarded religious feeling and pious emotion without knowledge as worse than useless.  Only when the truth was being fel...

We must judge teachings and practices, and these cannot be judged accurately apart from the Bible.  We must not judge something to be of ...

Just because we have a moving experience when we read a passage of Scripture does not mean that we have understood it properly, or that i...

The perfect spiritual victims for deceitful schemers are those with warm hearts and empty heads. The church is full of folks today who ha...

Just as a marriage cannot be sustained by the tumble of infatuation, a life of faith cannot be sustained by passionate emotion. Yes, it ma...

What is true emotion as contrasted with both emotionalism and sentimentalism?  It is never artificially or lightly produced.  man cannot ...

In the first place emotionalism is generally worked up.  In some shape or form it is artificially produced.  Its second characteristic is...

Some people live on emotionalism or on sentimentalism.  As they believe that nothing matters except this kind of riot or excitement of th...