If something more is required for forgiveness and cleansing from all unrighteousness (a state required for heaven), then the believer is in a dilemma. What if he fails to confess some sins? What if he fails to confess one sin? Is he unforgiven and not cleansed from all unrighteousness?….God does intend, as the passage teaches,... Continue Reading

As we have been looking at the tragic attacks on our faith by our enemy and his seed which have never stopped since our Lord’s Ascension, the best way to combat another round of fake Christians attempting to dilute the Gospel and create a new form of Christianity such as Woke Christianity as did the... Continue Reading

The apostle Paul calls us to embark on an adventure of exploring the vastness of the love of Christ, with the mission of knowing something that is ultimately unknowable (Eph. 3:18-19). Not that we can’t know love truly, but that we will never know it fully.   But the fruit of the Spirit is love…... Continue Reading

The Ottoman rulers, fearful their Armenian subjects might be siding with Russia, began a campaign of deportation and mass killings that resulted in about one and a half million deaths. A similar persecution started against Assyrian Christians.   William Ambrose Shedd was born January 24, 1865, in the mountain village of Seir, near Urmia, in... Continue Reading

Both Joseph and Jesus are betrayed by those closest to them—Israelite brothers—and sold for silver. Both are handed over to cousins of the people of Israel: Jesus to Herod the Edomite, a descendant of Esau the brother of Jacob, and Joseph to the Ishmaelites, descendants of Ishmael brother of Isaac. Both were falsely accused and... Continue Reading

If it happens in the not-so-distant future that you are arrested simply for teaching someone about Jesus, how are you going to respond? How you respond will be based on what has shaped your image of the good life.   Psalms 1 and 2 express two different images of life under God—as a flourishing tree,... Continue Reading

In church world we have done a good job of helping people to know about Jesus’ three years of ministry two millennia ago, but a lousy job of helping people to know that that same Jesus is praying for them today.   There are some obvious ways in which the idea of connecting might relate... Continue Reading

Whether it is the arrangement of sound, colour, shapes, numbers, words, or ideas, beauty is found in the combination and arrangement of disparate parts to make a unified whole. Whether found naturally, or re-shaped by God’s image-bearers, created beauty is a re-enactment of Genesis 1:2-3: order, harmony, equality is brought to bear upon what is... Continue Reading

Throughout the history of the church, there has always been a theology of the covenants. The Reformation recovery of the gospel and the biblical distinction between grace and works made it possible for Reformed theology to construct a detailed and fruitful covenant theology.   Until recently, it was widely held that covenant theology was created... Continue Reading

We can no longer assume that the people in America understand even the basic truths about the true God. Those of us who do know Him, must teach them. This is fundamental to the work of the Great Commission (Matthew 28:18-20).   In his acceptance speech for the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion in... Continue Reading