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 Reason to Learn Biblical Greek (1): Emphatic Negations
There is a way to negate something in Greek that rarely gets translated into English in such a way as allow most of us to feel the full force of it.
A Moment on the Scriptures: "Don't be afraid..."
He figured he was dead when the risen Jesus appeared before him.
Meditations for Communion: Jesus is Lord
In the ancient Roman-ruled world, there was a short two-word “confession of faith” that was required to be said by those living under Roman rule…if they wanted to stay in the good graces of Rome.
Is the Third Person of the Trinity a "Ghost" or a "Spirit"?
As of 2014, the version of the Bible over half of the English speaking Americans reached for was the King James Version (KJV). This means that a decent number of your friends and family, who read the Bible, read a translation that was made over 400 years ago.
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?