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...
I will be traveling from Haiti to the US all day today with my family. Thanks for your prayers. I’ll be posting again once things get settled.
Thanks
Matt
There he hung, dead on a cross for all to see. But he was the one they were waiting for…they waited so long. He was supposed to lead Israel in the great rebellion. He was suppose to make Rome look weak. He was supposed to replace Herod as the...
What Is Holiness? With Dr. John Oswalt (my friend and theological mentor).
Take time to watch this video in which N.T. Wright brings together the Kingdom and Cross.
It’s risky business to talk about the cross in ways that mainstream protestant-evangelicals aren’t used to. Fortunately (or unfortunately), I do this quite often. There are several dimensions of the cross and salvation (soteriology and...
Greetings all.
I’m currently participating (and hosting) the Biennial CETA conference; hence the lack of posts. See here for an update.
Thanks.
Matt
Not long ago I wrote a post about how holiness doctrine is much more about what He is able to accomplish than what we are able to accomplish. I wrote that in Jesus’ command (and we find the command elsewhere in scripture as well) to “be...
At first blush, the Synoptic Gospels (Matt, Mark, and Luke) are so different from the gospel according to John. Two of the three Synoptics start with the genealogy of Jesus (Matt and Luke). Mark jumps right into the story with John’s ministry...
When visiting churches in the US I notice that lots of pastors and preachers have exchanged the eternal truth of the Gospel for mere psychology and sociology. Rather recently I visited a large protestant evangelical church of a denomination for...