Deepak Chopra is becoming one of the most widely read teachers on spirituality in the Western world. Over the past two decades Chopra has produced more than 20 publications, whose teaching focuses primarily on holistic healing (physical, emotional...
In this post, I wrote that observant Jews read Psalm 30 each morning upon rising. I also noted that Psalm 30 is a temple dedication psalm (as the superscription notes for us). In terms of genre (or “form criticism“), the psalm itself is...
One of the paradoxes of the Christian faith that I struggle with is strength through weakness. I do not struggle with believing it to be true, I struggle with putting it into application on a day-to-day basis. What does this look like in the daily...
God is not only concerned with redeeming the spiritual; he’s concerned with redeeming all of his creation, including physical dimensions. God continually makes earth a dwelling place not only for his people, but for himself to share with his people...
In this post I talked about God’s presence being mobile. I touched on the fact that Israel believed that their expulsion from the Promised Land meant their expulsion from God’s presence as well. The vision of Ezekiel, however, made it...
Back to Ezekiel’s initial vision. One of the characteristics of the being “with the likeness of four living creatures” (Ex 1:5) is that it was mobile. “Each creature had two wings, each of which touched the wing of another...
Not many Christians can boast of having visions like Ezekiel’s. Even most of the heroes of the Bible themselves did not have the privilege of seeing the sorts of things that Ezekiel saw. It is usually in apocalyptic literature that we find...
Christian ministers spend hundreds of hours learning how to properly interpret the Bible. After all, the Bible is a very challenging book! But are all those hours of learning really necessary in light of the doctrine of the Clarity of Scripture...
The concept of the faithfulness of God (Gr. dikaiosyne theou) in Paul is a hot topic for the New Perspective vs. Old Perspective dialogue. The New Perspective argues (quite strongly) that Paul never talks about the faithfulness of of God in...
What does it mean to be “saved” according to the Bible? This is a tricky question for a number of reasons. To start, the Bible is a complex book. It has countless characters, historical contexts, and theological motifs. After all, full...