"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." - John 3:16
In the past co...
It is with a certain sense of shame that I confess that until this summer I had never read Paradise Lost all the way through. I had eagerly read the excerpts as...
For the last post in Nick’s series on the “Syntax of Salvation,” click here.
“What counts is not so much our knowledge of God as God’s knowledge of us. That is...
One of the most important questions for a Christian is “how am I saved?” Obviously, Christians want to go to heaven and so it is vital for us to figure out how ...
For the last post in Nick’s series on the “Syntax of Salvation,” click here.
“…to be known by God signifieth to be approved and loved by him, and consequently ...
For this Fish Tank post, I thought I'd share a letter I recently wrote to Dan Edelen at Cerulean Sanctum about baptism and God's plan of salvation. Mr. Edel...
There is a compelling narrative surrounding “Amazing Grace” to begin with. The mythology suggests that the lyricist — slave trader and all-around bad guy John...
The one Old Testament story that I will never forget is the Binding of Isaac.
It is not a particularly comforting story, nor one amenable to our modern dis...
Herein I continue to work through Matthew to put together a rough character sketch of God as He is presented in this gospel narrative. Today we consider two mo...
I've spent the past two weeks addressing the dichotomy between spirituality and religion. However, the divide between the two is truly a false dilemma. We can h...
