Had gone to heaven. Enoch was translated and Elijah was taken up. One could ascend a ladder (Jesus had told Nathanael that he would see angels ascending and descending on the Son of Man, and Jacob beh...
Affirmation speaks to the relevance of the doctrine of inerrancy
There are times when we suffer innocently at other people’s hands. When that occurs, we are victims of injustice. But that injustice happens on a horizontal plane. No one ever suffers injustice on the...
Justification is by faith alone, but not by a faith that is alone.
Works affects
Sin can be pleasurable, but it never brings happiness.
If I don't like something I read in Scripture, perhaps I simply don't understand it. If so, studying it again may help. If, in fact, I do understand the passage and still don't like it, this is not an...
Arrived,
The more faithful preachers are to the Word of God in their preaching, the more liable they are to the charge of hypocrisy. Why? Because the more faithful people are to the Word of God the higher the...
The great message of atheism is that chance has causal power.
Shadows in a cave are given to change. They dance and flicker with ever-changing shape and brightness. To contemplate the truly holy and to go beyond the surface of creaturely things, we need to get o...
God does not vacillate on His promises.
Don't ever ask God for justice-you might get it.
What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that suddenly make something Christian art? Must the artist’s subje...
To seek God is a lifelong pursuit.
How we understand the person and character of God the Father affects every aspect of our lives. It affects far more than what we normally call the "religious" aspect of our lives. If God is the Creato...
The Christian is not a Stoic. Neither does he flee into a fantasy world that denies the reality of suffering.
The Battle for the Bible. In that little book, Lindsell addressed what had become a huge matter of controversy-the truthfulness and reliability of the Scriptures. In the face of myriad arguments again...
Once we refuse to honor God as God, our whole view of life and the world becomes distorted.
If the Bible were the most boring book in the world--dull, uninteresting and seemingly irrelevant--it would still be our duty to study it. If its literary style were awkward and confusing, the duty wo...