How does Christianity differ from all the other world religions? Although wildly ambitious and seemingly foolish to write on such a massive topic, with billions…
This is without question a rather perplexing text! There are various biblical texts which can be rather difficult to interpret and understand. This verse would…
Some of the most shocking words in all of Scripture are found in the book of Ezekiel. There are many parts of the Bible –…
Do you care about the things that God cares about? I am not asking a rhetorical question here, but a very real one. Do you…
The words of warning given by Jeremiah to ancient Israel seem to be fully needed in today’s church. Now that I have your attention, no,…
Having just again finished reading the book of Ezra, I was struck by how many deep theological truths and spiritual gems are found in this…
Let me briefly define things here, then offer a few prefatory remarks. Simply put, iconoclasm – in a religious context – literally means “image-breaking”. It…
This is the conclusion to an article which looks at the issue of the conquest of Canaan by the Israelites and various moral and religious…
As we come to the close of the New Testament we find these three short but important letters by John (authorship is disputed, but likely…
These three letters (along with John’s letters – see my next article in this series) form the penultimate portion of the New Testament, with only…
After the four gospels, the book of Acts, and the thirteen Pauline epistles, we come to the final nine books of the New Testament. The…
The last two of the four so-called major prophets are quite important books, and both deserve careful study. While Daniel may get a lot of…
Jeremiah is one of the most well-known and most-read prophets, and for good reason. His persistence in proclaiming the whole counsel of God, even in…
At the very heart of Christian theology is the notion of the triune God, and the idea of the deity of Christ. Both these doctrines…
If you have been faithfully reading your three and a bit chapters of Scripture a day to get through the Bible in a year, beginning…
The true prophet identifies with and represents the people of God before God, but he also identifies with and represents God before the people of…
Christianity is Christ, and when we get Christ wrong we get Christianity wrong. Anything as important as getting right who Jesus is and what he…
There are so many memorable passages in Scripture, but they can be misused and abused if not handled correctly. Jeremiah 29:11 is one such passage.…
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…
OK, so Christmas is coming up, and what better gifts are there than books? And theological books have to be pretty high on the list…