We call the editorial plural or the editorial we, which a writer or speaker uses to communicate a point. This device is often used by dignitaries; a king, a pope, or another person in high office pref...
If God is not sovereign, God is not God.
Commemoration like Christmas and Easter. The event is described only twice in the New Testament. I am now convinced that no single event in the life of Jesus
When we understand the character of God, when we grasp something of His holiness, then we begin to understand the radical character of our sin and hopelessness. Helpless sinners can survive only by gr...
When human beings failed in obedience to the law of God, God did not just annihilate them. He gave them a promise of future redemption, and He covered their nakedness, which foreshadowed the ultimate...
We are told today that in the boldness of faith we are to name it and claim it. I suppose I should be more measured in my response to this trend, but I can't think of anything more foreign to the teac...
The pilgrimage of the Christian life is a pilgrimage of faith. It begins when God creates faith in our hearts. In the first stage of our Christian experience, we embrace Christ and trust Him for our r...
The death of Christ covers our sin, but the life of Christ provides the merit and the righteousness that we must have in order to enter into heaven. So, Jesus’s life is as important for us as His deat...
That’s our tendency—take credit for the good, transfer blame for the evil. But Edwards understood that any good deed we do, any righteous choices that we make, are only because God is at work within u...
Sound theology actually teaches the central importance of love and inclines us to love the God of the Scriptures and other people as well.
Our lives say much more about how we think than our books do. The theories we preach are not always the ones we actually believe. The theories we live are the ones we really believe.
Of course, knowledge is also important because without it we cannot know what God requires. However, knowledge and truth remain abstract unless we commune with God in prayer.
It is the prerogative of the theologian to make fine distinctions; that is what theology is about.
If our decisions about how to treat others are always motivated by love for God, a singular love for God, we really do not have to worry about the law, because the law reflects what is pleasing to God...
I do not believe that the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches are preaching the same gospel that evangelicals preach.
Place in the fall of 1979, with Drs. Geisler, Hoehner, Nicole, and Radmacher in attendance. It was the consensus of those present that we should not undertake to modify a statement that so many people...
If you assume that the Big Bang happened gratuitously, you're talking about magic, not science.
Against or instead of. In language, there is a difference, but in life, it is a distinction without a difference, because
The governing authorities are understood to be ordained by God. We are not permitted to obey only those authorities that we consider to be legitimate. It is a de facto matter, not a do ejur matter. Go...
Prayer is not magic. God is not a celestial bellhop ready at our beck and call to satisfy our every whim.