Believing Unbelievable Things
I ran across YouTube video the other day showing a visit to the Ark Encounter in Kentucky.
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: Bible Translation Comparisons
By any conservative count, there are at least 50 different English translations of the Bible. One of the main questions for us, then, is: What do we do with all those options?
A Moment on the Scriptures: "In the beginning" in Genesis and John
If you were to sit down and write a gospel, how would you begin?
Exegetical Meditations (2)
What kind of standing has the unregenerate man before the holy God? His only standing is one of condemnation.
Condemnation can be the only answer to the question of unregenerate man’s standing before the holy God, for the unregenerate man hates God and is God’s enemy. To please God is not the desire of the unregenerate man’s heart, for he is not able to do so (Romans 8:8).
Exegetical Meditations (1)
Nine times in the opening chapter of Genesis we read the words: God said. One of those nine times, God tells the land to produce vegetation (Genesis 1:11) and another one of those nine times, God gives his creation (mankind and animals) every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it for food (Genesis 1:29).