Jerry Walls ~ God's Love and Predestination
"Now some Calvinists clearly understand the logic of their position, and do not shrink from this implication. Classic Calvinist theologian Arthur W. Pink wrote: 'when we say God is sovereign in the exercise of His love, we mean that He loves whom He chooses. God does not love everybody.'”
Biblical Wisdom: Reasons for Kings and Chronicles
Why in the world are the books of Kings and Chronicles in our Bibles?
Commentators offer their answers, of course. Certainly these long, repetitive books...
Most Important Book of 2016
The most important book of 2016 is The Patient Ferment of the Early Church: The Improbable Rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire, by...
Is Homosexuality a Core Issue?
Is homosexuality a core issue of Christian belief? A matter of doctrinal fidelity? Or is it essentially a question of human rights; the current...
To Bless the Nations: Election in Biblical and Missional Perspective
The rapid increase of those who identify as "young, restless, and Reformed" is bringing fresh attention to the doctrine of election, which is one...
Do Christians Fall Asleep?
Having been brung up on the King James Version of the Bible, I was familiar with such verses as these:
“After that, he was seen...
Does Romans 7 Teach that Christians Will Continue Sinning?
Some point to Romans 7 as the proof-text for the saint-sinner paradox, suggesting that if even the apostle Paul struggled with his unrelenting flesh, Christians must face defeat in certain areas of their Christian life. On the contrary, Ben Witherington suggests that ancient rhetoric illuminates the passage in a way that eliminates Paul as the subject of this passage and paints a more optimistic picture of God's sanctifying grace.
The Revival We Don’t Need
America needs a great awakening, a shaking revival, a genuine stirring of the Spirit of God.
America does not need a pseudo-revival, a movement that...
Resurrection Body: Physical or Spiritual?
Was Jesus’ resurrection body physical or spiritual? Or don’t those categories apply to what remains, after all, a mystery?
In Salvation Means Creation Healed I...
Leviathan; or, Whale Theology
“God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, of every kind, with which the waters swarm” (Gen. 1:21). There is...