Church History

Beyond doubt, the most hotly debated assertion of the Apostles’ Creed is the descent of Christ to “hell” or hades (ᾅδης/inferos/inferna). This...

Paul described how he ran with purpose, “Run in such a way as to get the prize….Therefore I do not run like...

In Philippians 2:20-21, Paul gives a recommendation for Timothy that all those who serve Christ should covet: “I have no one like him,...

Adoniram Judson entered Burma in 1813 and began laboring in sweltering heat and seemingly constant battles with sickness, disease, and death for...

If you have not yet seen Dr. Mark Snoeberger’s recent article about the death of God in the death of Christ, I...

A few weeks ago I discussed the pro-life position in the DBTS chapel, including the biblical perspective of when human life begins—at...

It is not unusual to find arguments, both from atheists and Christians, that Christmas was started as an attempt by Christians to...

On this day 499 years ago, a monk named Martin Luther (1483–1546) approached a church door in Wittenberg, Germany and posted a...

Just six months before he died, John Wesley (1703–1791) wrote to a preacher named Robert Carr Brackenbury (1752–1818). In that letter Wesley...

In the early 1800s the church in America faced a number of challenges. Intermittent revivals of religion in the previous decades had...