It is essential that one considers God to be His God in Christ. The light of the knowledge of the glory of God is to be found in the face of Jesus Christ (2 Cor. 4:6). Outside of Christ, God is a terror, and can only be viewed as terror, and can only be viewed as a consuming fire. In Christ, however...

layman said... Steve, would you mind walking me through how a passage such as Genesis 6:6 should be understood? Thanks: Genesis 6:6 And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. (NKJV) Let’s discuss some general issues, then apply those considerations t...

As I mentioned several posts ago, this semester I was introduced to Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar in my reading of contemporary theology of the Trinity. Balthasar was a creative thinker, an engaging writer, and a brilliant theologian. Though Balthasar's training was in literature rather...

"Genuine love between persons is probably less common than one thinks, although most people think they have had some share in it and that they really possess it for brief moments. But it may well be as rare as great works of art, which tower here and there above the mass of what masquerades as art. ...

My wife and I saw Fireproof the other evening. Why? Primarily, so we could have a night out, but also because we were both curious. Fireproof, in case you haven’t heard, is a film produced by Sherwood Pictures, a ministry of a Baptist church in Georgia, and was done with a budget of only about $10...

I haven't updated the blog recently so I thought that I would drop a line to let everyone know why I have been dark for the last 2 months. I am abnormally busy this summer. I am working between 20-30 hrs a week at Starbucks, I am taking 8 credits of class this summer, I am working 30+ hrs a week as ...

In this month’s Christianity Today, Carolyn Arends has an article whose name immediately caught my attention: “The Grace of Wrath“. It was one of the first things I read in this edition. What a disappointment. How badly she missed the point. So this blog post is going to be me rehe...

Having examined the logic of the Why Doesn’t God Heal Amputees? argument, I want to move on to address the specific verses misquoted during the course of the argument. The main verse that we will look at here is John 14:13—“Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be gl...

I am concerned about popular evangelical Christianity. No, that’s not right, I’ve always been concerned about popular evangelical Christianity for a number of reasons. I am concerned about popular, theologically-minded evangelical Christianity. Better. Anyway, my concern is that while we...

The precise meaning of words is and has been extremely important in the life of the church. Throughout church history, orthodoxy has hinged on small changes in meaning from one term to the next. Perhaps one of the most significant examples of this phenomena was the development and usage of the terms...