We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I ...

“Weeping and gnashing of teeth” is a phrase often associated with “hell” in the popular religious imagination. It is found seven times ...

Thoughts culled from my random file, gathered from my Twitter tweets , Facebook updates and Instagrams . About divine love, relationsh...

Jesus taught that the Law and the Prophets are about him. That is how the early Church Fathers understood the Old Testament, rejecting ...

We have been looking at how the early Church Fathers understood various Old Testament passages. A literal or historical reading often ...

As we saw in the last post , the New Testament authors found Jesus throughout the Old Testament — not by a plain, literal reading of th...

Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. (Luke 24:45) On the evening of his resurrection, the Lord Jesus en...

There are many Christians who are offended at the thought of post-mortem conversion — that repentance and faith might be a possibility ...

Then Jesus told them this parable: Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the ope...

God gave them over. (Romans 1:24) At the top of his letter to the church at Rome, the apostle Paul tells us about God’s wrath toward t...

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on them. (John ...

Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! (Romans 5:9) In my previo...

Recently, I came across this quote from a popular evangelical teacher: “The grand paradox or supreme irony of the Christian faith is th...

Abba, Father,    thank You for giving us Your Son    and sending us Your Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit,    by whom we cry out, “A...

Thoughts culled from my random file, gathered from my Twitter tweets , Facebook updates and Instagrams . About divine love, relationsh...