Rapture theology, the belief that Christians will be taken up to heaven before a period of tribulation on earth, is a widely popular eschatological framework within certain evangelical circles. Made famous by the Left Behind series and reinforced by...
Jesus’s atoning work means for genuine reconciliation with God. John 3:16—the most famous NT verse—says “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but...
Last week there was a letter to the editor of the Northside Sun offering a preterist interpretation of the Bible’s (the New Testament in particular) teaching on eschatology (i.e., the Bible’s teaching on the end of all things). While well-written...
“The revelation of Jesus Christ…” (Rev. 1:1) I loath assembling box furniture. So many parts. Screws, nuts, bolts, furniture pieces (that are, of course, very very fragile), tools, sitting on the floor, legs falling asleep in a space that’s not...
This is an excerpt from a forthcoming book on the Holy Spirit. In this post I said that the Bible is the foundational authoritative source for right thinking about God. In this post, we will look at the consensual tradition of the church represented...
other believers. In Paul's language, people become members of God's family when they become Christians. We must keep in mind that when we become members of God's family that it is a family that sends. There is not a single member of the family of...
If the aim of Jesus's saving work is to restore the presence of God with us, then the Holy Spirit must be a person to truly bring the presence of God to believers. If the Holy Spirit is not a person, then the truth and power of Jesus's saving...
The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. — Matthew 1:1 It’s not by accident that Matthew’s Gospel is the first of four in the New Testament. This is by design. The book of Matthew—as the first book of the New...