A year ago this month I began a series of sermons in Galatians using the Legacy Standard Bible. That might not seem like much to write about to many people, but up to that point I had only preached from the King James Bible. I used to be a “King James Only” preacher and many…
Yesterday, I preached from Galatians 5:1-6 using the Legacy Standard Bible, and the title of my sermon was “Severed from Christ.” This comes from verse 4: “You have been severed from Christ, you who are being justified by law; you have fallen from grace!” (Galatians 5:4) Here’s something I did not bring out in my…
When I was growing up the King James Version was all I had and 1 Corinthians 16:13 really confused me. “Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.” Sadly, the only sermon I remember ever hearing about it was during a Bible Conference and the preacher said “I never could…
While the church I grew up in was never an “extreme King James Only Church,” as soon as I entered the ministry in the mid 1990s, I was presented with books by authors such as Gail Riplinger, David Otis Fuller, and others. I heard from some preachers that a “Good Baptist”is a “King James Baptist.”…
The 1611 King James Bible was prefaced by two articles. One of them was “The Epistle Dedicatory” and the other was “The Translators to the Reader.” Sadly many KJV Bibles do not include either, and many who love and cherish the KJV have never read it. I am including “The Translators To The Reader” here,…