Why I Will Still Sing About Christ Being Forsaken: A Response to ‘Neither Forsaken nor Estranged from God.’
If you have not yet seen Dr. Mark Snoeberger’s recent article about the death of God in the death of Christ, I... Read More
Why Do Christians Believe in the Trinity? Is It Rational?
Christians are people of the book, but the word “Trinity” is not found anywhere in the Bible. So, is the Trinity a... Read More
Is Christ’s Receipt of “Life-in-Himself” (John 5:26) Proof of Eternal Generation?
Two years ago at the national meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, anticipation ran high about a scheduled plenary debate on the... Read More
Synthesizing Indwelling, Omnipresence, and Sanctification
The question of the absence or presence of the indwelling ministry of the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament is a relatively... Read More
Miracles: Then and Now (Part One)
On occasion through the years one reads or hears of a great revival somewhere in the world, a sudden outburst of the... Read More
The Importance of Biblical Creationism for Theology
How important is biblical creation for one’s theology? Self-professed evangelicals increasingly say, “Very little.” A surprising number of theologians downplay its importance.... Read More
Knowing God’s Will: An Alternative View
I’ve been reading, recently and with great interest, a blog series defending what is sometimes called the “traditional view” of Christian decision-making—the... Read More
“We should shrink in horror from the idea that God actually died on the cross.”
…so said the late R. C. Sproul in a timely and succinct blog post just last year. Sproul was a master of... Read More
Believing…By Faith?
While talking to an acquaintance yesterday about a thorny Christological question, I made the statement that Christ was 100% God and 100%... Read More
The “Reminding” Work of the Spirit and the Modern Christian
In the Gospels Christ several times promises that the Spirit will supply appropriate words to his disciples in seasons of persecution (Matt... Read More