There are some things God is not willing to do, and this is marvelously portrayed in the three parables that comprise Luke 15. Jesus to...

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

Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment ... (Hebrews 9:27) Evangelical universalism entails the possi...

We hear it a lot — I say it a lot — but what does it mean? Simply put, to be “in Christ” is to be in union with Christ, one with Christ...

How hard it is even for Christians to believe that God intends to save the whole world. This is even though the New Testament indicates...

Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the ...

From now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. (2 Corinthian...

For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him. (Psalm 103:11) How high are the heavens a...

Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the ...

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. (1 Corinthians 15:56) Last time, we looked at the question of what Paul me...

Therefore, just as sin entered into the cosmos through one man, and death through sin, so also death pervaded all humanity, whereupon al...

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

Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. (Romans 12:15) In times of tragedy, it has become common on social media t...

There are three things we should understand about the Old Testament and the early Church if we want to read the Scriptures the way the ...

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God — not by works, so that n...

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God — not by works, so that n...

Thoughts culled from my random file, gathered from my Twitter tweets , Facebook updates and Instagrams . About love, freedom, glory, h...