Oftentimes a diverse and unrelated bunch of events will nicely come together, and inspire a hopefully coherent and unified article. This is one of them.…
This is a theological and biblical exercise, dealing with topics that have been debated for centuries. Indeed, entire libraries have been written on such topics,…
Anyone who has flown on a plane knows about perspective. From many thousands of feet up in the air we can see things far differently…
Jesus said quite explicitly on various occasions that the servant is not above the master (Matthew 10:24-25; Luke 6:40; John 13:16; John 15:20). The disciple…
In an age of rampant biblical illiteracy (especially among Christians) the restatement of basic biblical truths becomes imperative. And if you happen to be in…
Why do I suspect that most Christians have given this Old Testament book a wide berth, and never bothered to read it? While perhaps most…
My title of course comes from the title of a famous volume by the Spanish mystic Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591). His volume dealt…
That all sorts of nasty and destructive things happen in nature is not in dispute. But for the Christian, how much of this might be…
If you don’t know what I am talking about here, perhaps I need to add a fourth response: that of rank ignorance. This is of…
Anyone with a bit of biblical knowledge will know what I am referring to with my title. In Matthew 12:20 we read: “A bruised reed…
David Chilton titled his 2006 commentary on the book of Revelation The Days of Vengeance. That is a pretty accurate description of so much of…
A term used much in discussions about God, creation and evil comes from the Greek word telos which means end or purpose. The teleology of…
One would wish that the angry atheists came up with something new for a change – something original or something clever. Instead, all we get…
I have said it before, and I might as well keep saying it: contemporary Western Christians are in desperate need of developing a theology of…
Another major disaster is leaving much of the world numb with disbelief and insoluble grief. The facts are slowly coming through, but it is still…
No day passes without some tragedy or horrific case of suffering. And when these things happen, inevitably the questions arise: Why? Where was God? How…
Some things never change: there is always a God who is there; there are always sinners who reject him yet desperately need him; and the…
It is far too early to say too much with certainty about the Boston bombings. We do know at this point that three people were…
During the height of the Cold War, I, like so many others, prayed for all those suffering so cruelly under atheistic communism. I cried out…
The book of Deuteronomy has been called the “Romans of the Old Testament”. Just as Romans in the New Testament is in many ways a…