A Moment on the Scriptures: "Happy is the one who..."
Everyone wants to be happy. The problem is: we often forget how to be happy.
A Moment on the Scriptures: "Don't be afraid..."
He figured he was dead when the risen Jesus appeared before him.
A Moment on the Scriptures: The Theology of Christmas (10)
Although we’re quite different in many aspects from the person of Jesus, there remains something between us that we share: our humanity.
A Moment on the Scriptures: The Theology of Christmas (9)
Systematic theology is all over the ancient creeds and confessions of the early Christian church and here, with the Athanasian creed, as it discusses the unity of the person of Jesus, it’s as dense as it gets.
A Moment on the Scriptures: The Theology of Christmas (8)
How does something like the incarnation happen?
A Moment on the Scriptures: The Theology of Christmas (7)
At this point in working through the Athanasian Creed, it wouldn’t be unreasonable to start thinking of Jesus as two different people or beings.
A Moment on the Scriptures: The Theology of Christmas (6)
What are we to make of those places in the New Testament when it’s clear that Jesus is on the same level as the Father and then, in other places, is not as great as the Father? Is it fair to just toss up our hands and pronounce the charge of inconsistency within the text?
A Moment on the Scriptures: The Theology of Christmas (5)
Is it really possible that Jesus was made to be—through his incarnation—just as we are?
A Moment on the Scriptures: The Theology of Christmas (4)
Depending on your Christian perspective and background, it’s sometimes easier to think of Jesus being God than it is to think of him being an actual person.
A Moment on the Scriptures: The Theology of Christmas (3)
In the Athanasian Creed, the writers were doing their best to describe the Jesus found in the New Testament with as much clarity as possible. They did this by means of introducing a description that we may have never used when thinking or talking about Jesus.