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Bible

The 5 Most Misused Verses in the Bible

January 11, 2021

As I look back at my bible college days and seminary years, “Context, context, context!” is crucial! Context is not just King, but is the Queen, Jack, and Spade and all! A text without a context is with a pretext.

Categories Blog Tags Bible, Scripture, Theology, Verse
Waiting

Episode 21: Five Reasons Why God Makes Us Wait

October 16, 2020October 5, 2020

Do you ever wonder why God makes us wait on certain things? Whether good or bad? Why does God do that? Here are five points we lay out as we converse on waiting on the LORD.

Tags Bible, Discipleship, Jesus, Podcast
Defending the faith

The Question of God’s Existence in the Practice of Apologetics

August 31, 2020

People from all walks of life will often ask one or more of the following metaphysical questions: Why should I believe the Bible? Is there salvation outside of Christianity? How do we know that God exists? Given evil, how can one justify God?

Categories Blog Tags Apologetics, Bible, Culture, Education, Evangelism, Faith, Gospel, Jesus, Ministry, Mission, Outreach, Teaching, Theology, Truth
saved from the wrath of God

The Saving Work of Jesus Christ

August 17, 2020

Paul’s sole confidence lied within Christ alone for he was radically transformed by this good news of the gospel.

Categories Blog Tags Bible, Cross, Gospel, Jesus, Theology
A Ministry Filled with Frustration

5 Ways to Deal with People Who Cause You Grief

August 10, 2020

Today, if you face any sort of difficulty with people, the world will say to take the highway. I believe Christians are called to take the higher way.

Categories Blog Tags Bible, Christianity, Church, Conflict, Counseling, Faith, Jesus, Pastoring, Suffering
Christians extending forgiveness.

Christians Ought to Forgive the Unlovable

July 27, 2020July 27, 2020

Forgiving others is a mark of genuine disciples of Christ.

Categories Blog Tags Bible, Christianity, Conflict, Counseling, Faith, Forgiveness, Gospel, Jesus, Leadership, Reconciliation
Heresy Advise "You be You"

Heretical Advice of “Just Be Yourself”

July 13, 2020

When we look deep down in the soul, what do we find? What part of our self are we supposed to be, “true to”?

Categories Blog Tags Bible, Christianity, Counseling, Faith, Gospel, Jesus, Ministry, Theology
Disagreement

Episode 18: How to Disagree on Theological Differences

June 29, 2020

Theological disagreement can cause church splits, tear up churches and ultimately jeopardize Christian Unity.

Tags Bible, Christianity, Church, Conflict, Current Events, Gospel, History, Jesus, Pastoring, Teaching, Theology, Truth
Racism in America.

Episode 17: RACISM • JESUS • ME

May 31, 2020May 30, 2020

In this episode of the Ordinary Radicals podcast, Jonathan Hayashi and Brandon Boatner speak on a heavy heart wrenching topic of racism in America.

Tags Ahmaud Arbery, Bible, George Floyd, Jesus, Justice, Prejudice, Racism, Scripture

Should Christians Read Other Books, or Just the Bible?

May 25, 2020

The real debate within the contemporary cultural context lies at the intersection in post-modernity where the Bible has its rightful place in authority, certainty, and the finality.

Categories Blog Tags Bible, Biography, Book, Christianity, Church, Faith, Theology

Episode 15: Should We Sing Bethel?

April 6, 2020

Worship is a hot topic and should always be a hot topic! Why? Because worship matters.

Tags Bible, Christianity, Corporate Worship, Doctrine, Doxology, Faith, Jesus, Music, Theology, Truth, Worship

20 Bible Verses For Faith Through Difficult Times

March 30, 2020

What Scripture or promise of God gets you through difficult situations?

Categories Blog Tags Anxiety, Bible, Christianity, Church, Comfort, Conflict, Counseling, Difficulty, Hardship, Jesus, Peace, Suffering, Trials, Tribulation
The COVID-19 has indeed impacted not only China, Italy or USA but has impacted a large number of nations and society all around the world.

How Should Christians Respond to a Worldwide Crisis?

March 16, 2020

How should Christians respond to this worldwide crisis? How should we biblically think in this fallen world that strikes panic and fear of our life, family, and churches?

Categories Blog Tags Anxiety, Bible, Crisis, Culture, Depression, Faith, Jesus, Suffering, Theology

New Approach in The Missionary Graveyard

July 1, 2019

Japan is known by many to be a difficult mission field. Japan has now been known as “the missionary’s graveyard.”

Categories Blog Tags Bible, Church, Evangelism, Faith, Great Commission, Mission, Outreach

The Controversial Female Theologian: Anne Hutchinson 

April 29, 2019

Although her skillful confutations silenced her opponents, her claim that the Holy Spirit communicated directly to her (apart from Scripture) was not tolerated.

Categories Blog Tags Bible, Biography, Christianity, Church, Conflict, History, Polity

Episode 2: How to Cultivate a Scripture Reading for our Everyday Life?

April 9, 2019April 8, 2019

Biblical illiteracy within churches are rampant and is all over the place! Pastors are doing diligence in preparing and preaching sermons, but the real problem is people are not reading their Bible!

Tags Bible, Devotion, Discipline, Prayer

Study to Show Yourself Approved

February 4, 2019February 4, 2019

The Bible reminds believers to avoid worthless foolish empty chatter, but instead to be thoroughly equipped and qualified with careful study of scripture. (2 Tim. 2:16; 3:17).

Categories Blog Tags Bible, Discipline, Education, Ministry, Pastoring, Theology

A Calvinistic Presuppositional Theologian Gordon H. Clark

January 28, 2019

Gordon H. Clark was against the idea of irrationalism. He also sees the neo-orthodox insistence that divine revelation under any and all circumstances is non-cognitive cannot escape a skeptical conclusion.

Categories Blog Tags Apologetics, Bible, Biography, Education, History, Theology, Truth

Why is Salvation by Faith Alone? Why Couldn’t it be Love Alone?

January 21, 2019January 21, 2019

To get at the nature of that faith, it is helpful to ponder why faith alone justifies. Why not love, or some other virtuous disposition?

Categories Blog Tags Apologetics, Bible, Christianity, Cross, Crucifixion, Education, Faith, Gospel, Jesus, Teaching, Theology, Truth

New Morning, New Year, New Mercies

January 7, 2019January 7, 2019

I come with singing and everlasting joy within my heart. I obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing goes away.

Categories Blog Tags Bible, Cross, Devotion, Gospel, Jesus, Prayer, Worship

10 Verses for the Thanksgiving Season

December 11, 2018November 19, 2018

Thanksgiving Day is the excellent time to remind each another of the many reasons there are so much to be grateful.

Categories Blog Tags Bible, Christianity, Church, Family, Worship

The Most Misunderstood Doctrine: Pneumatology

December 11, 2018November 12, 2018

Understanding the doctrine of pneumatology is crucial as it is often perhaps one of the most misunderstood doctrines of all the systematics across all denominational lines.

Categories Blog Tags Academia, Bible, Book, Teaching, Theological, Theology, Truth

9 in 10 Americans Believe a Higher Power, but Not the God of the Bible

December 11, 2018August 20, 2018

America is in a huge theological confusion which leads to confusion in thinking as well.

Categories Blog Tags Apologetics, Bible, Current Events, Theology, Truth

Is Sexual Addiction a Medical Disorder or Moral Failure?

December 11, 2018August 13, 2018

There must be a genuine sense of grief and sorrow over the sin that was committed.

Categories Blog Tags Bible, Church, Counseling, Pornography, Sanctification, Scripture, Sin
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Evangelica Sola is a Christian blog that incorporates a comprehensive look at doctrinal theology, christian living and the church’s disciple making mandate. Jonathan Hayashi (D.Ed.Min., The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is the Senior Pastor of Northern Hills Baptist Church in the Greater KC area. Prior to that, he served at an inner-city church in Chicago, IL and the Greater St. Louis area for total 12 years in pastoral ministries. He is married to Kennedi and a father to three beautiful children.

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“Ordinary Radicals: A Return to Christ-Centered Discipleship” unfolds, with honest open-heart questions, how we think about the gospel in our lives. The gospel you believe, determines the disciple you make. Radical discipleship is about nothing more and nothing less than laying bare the roots of the gospel.

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