There is a fascinating passage in the Apocrypha in the book of 2 Maccabees which talks of the hope of the resurrection of the dead. It uses terminology that Paul later uses in 1 Corinthians 15 and elsewhere in the New Testament.
Observations on how Proverbs 9 presents a foreshadowed picture —of sorts— of the gospel and also an anti-gospel at work in the earth (i.e. the work of God and the devil, respectively).
The American Calvinist theologian John Murray discussing regeneration and faith in his book Redemption: Accomplished and Applied (pg. 106):
Martin Luther for many years early in his life was tormented in mind and soul, constantly sensing his sin before God and yet seeing only the heavy hand of a righteous God who must judge sin and execute justice.
A Poem by Joshua Nielsen.
Herman Ridderbos in his book When the Time Had Fully Come explains how the gospel is more than just that which is concerned with man’s stake in it through justification, but is in its fullness rooted in the historical and factual reality of the incarnate Christ who lived, died, rose again, ascended, and poured out Continue Reading…
In his comments on Deuteronomy 31, John Calvin writes something that explains how the reading/hearing of Scripture is properly necessary to worship of God in reverential fear and obedience. If we are not reading God’s word with regularity to remind ourselves of its revealed message, or memorizing and meditating upon it in recollection, should that Continue Reading…
Theology as the pursuit of the knowledge of God.
A look at Paul’s figurative use of baptism.
A friend of mine and missionary among the Maasai and other tribes in Kenya, Joshua Barron, recently shared the above image and asked what my personal answer would be.
Dr. Dan Ulrich delivers a message where repentance is brought to the fore to consider its relationship to the kingdom of God in a text from the Gospel of Matthew.
Problems with limiting God’s “means of grace”.
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