The Scriptures teach us that God is love and that God is a consuming fire. That is not saying two different things but saying the same ...

The last enemy to be destroyed is death. (1 Corinthians 15:26) Death has an expiration date, for it is the last enemy to be destroyed....

In a previous post, Luke 24 and Reading the Scriptures , I made the point that we ought always interpret the Scriptures in a Christ-cent...

In a previous post, Luke 24 and Reading the Scriptures , I made the point that we ought always interpret the Scriptures in a Christ-cent...

He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the Messiah have to suffer the...

The Cross and Resurrection are not two different events but two different views of the same event.Yet many Christians have thought of i...

At the Cross, Jesus, in whom all the fullness of divinity dwells in bodily form, suffered for us, with us and as us — this is the trut...

Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and on those in the tombs bestowing life. I love the icon of the Anastas...

“The love of God is the fire of hell.” ~ St. Isaac the Syrian What St. Isaac speaks is nothing more than the truth that God is love. ...

When he has done this, then the Son himself will be made subject to him who put everything under him, so that God may be all in all. (1 ...

For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. (1 Corinthians 15:22) There is only one human nature, one humanity, of wh...

At the cross, the Lord Jesus Christ, through whom, by whom and for whom all things were created, and in whom all things hold together, and ...

(adapted from Colossians 1:15-20) Christ is all-encompassing, In every dimension and every degree. The fullness of Christ in al...

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...