What Jonathan Edwards wrote about real and fake revival is must reading for today: Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was arguably the greatest Christian thinker America has…
We must not lose sight of the throne of God: Throughout Scripture we read about God’s throne. It of course speaks to the rule and…
New Age thought and the new spiritualities have nothing in common with biblical Christianity: The term “New Age” appeared in the 1980s, but many (including…
Does this passage mean we should have nothing to do with philosophy? As is often the case in this series, this verse is not necessarily…
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…
Is Peter offering us a type of pantheism, or New Age teaching in this passage? Peter uses a phrase in this passage that is not…
What does it mean when we are told that Christ became a curse for us? This first half of this verse says this: “Christ redeemed…
“No cross, no crown” is how we referred to this matter in Part One. Throughout the Bible our present sufferings are tied in with our…
Everywhere we look we find conflict. There are political wars, there are ideological wars, there are culture wars, and there are religious wars. Overwhelmingly, behind…
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…
Three more of Paul’s 13 epistles are covered here. Of interest, they give us what may well be the first and last of his writings.…
These two shorter epistles by Paul (four chapters each) are very important parts of the New Testament. They feature a number of important truths and…
As mentioned in this series, all up the Apostle Paul wrote 13 canonical letters, making up almost half of the New Testament. These are two…
Eerdmans, 2018. What a difference a generation makes. When it comes to buying new commentaries, some might ask: Why bother? Are not the older ones…
The book of Romans is in many ways the magnum opus of the Apostle Paul. In its 16 chapters so many vital Christian truths and…
OK, another post about books, reading and theology. There goes 95 per cent of my potential reading audience. But for the 5 per cent of…
There would be tens of thousands of books on the New Testament. There is far too much to choose from, so here I offer just…
New theology titles keep pouring from the presses, and it is hard to keep up with everything that is out there. A few months ago…
The last 16 books in the English Old Testament are made up of the prophetic writings: 4 major and 12 minor – so called because…