Don’t Eat That!
Contemporary Western Christianity has a tendency to overlook the work of the Holy Spirit (granted, some sects within Protestant Christianity aren’t as negligent as others). First, I want to answer …
Contemporary Western Christianity has a tendency to overlook the work of the Holy Spirit (granted, some sects within Protestant Christianity aren’t as negligent as others). First, I want to answer …
Just after the birth of Jesus we are introduced to John the Baptist and his ministry (in some gospel accounts we learn a bit about John and his family prior to …
I was in Port-au-Prince, Haiti just a couple of weeks ago teaching a Masters course for Indiana Wesleyan University for 40 Haitian students. The title of the course was Exegetical …
Excerpt from Holiness in Fresh Perspective: Covenant, Cross, and Kingdom (Wipf and Stock, expected 2015). Flowing directly from the complete obedience of the Messiah comes our final and most important point about the …
And the Spirit was hovering over the waters... (Gen 1:2b) I've always been intrigued by the Spirit of God hovering over the watery chaos just before God speaks order into the …
Many Christians struggle with understanding how the Old Testament and New Testament fit together. One of the particular ares of difficulty is understanding how the Mosaic Law (things such as …
We cannot miss how Paul, in the overall structure of the Epistle to the Romans, juxtaposes the contrast between Holy Spirit and the Torah as two different, but related means …
We celebrated Pentecost last week. We are reminded during the season of Pentecost that Jesus, as he always does, fulfilled his promise to his disciples by sending the Holy Spirit. …
The more of N.T. Wright I read the more excited I become. To start, I find that his critique of Piper is spot on with specific regard to the following …
The Benedictus (the title being derived from the first word of the song “Blessed” in Latin: Benedictus Dominus Deus Israel), found in Luke 1:68-80, is traditionally read during the Advent …