Below are my top five books from this past year with a short review. Union with the Resurrected Christ by G.K. Beale G.K. Beale’s work has taught me much. Just this year he released a sequel of sorts to his A New Testament Biblical Theology (which I am now in the process of reading). This …
The question “who is Jesus?” is a significant one. The Bible, especially the New Testament, presents the answer to this question throughout. Understanding the identity of Jesus Christ is not just an exercise in philosophical speculation or religious scholarship however. It is a question with eternal implications for each and every person. One can either …
One Like a Son of Man: The Identity of Jesus in Revelation 1 Read More »
How can we be sure that we are saved? This is an important and sometimes challenging question for Christians. We are saved by grace through faith alone but sometimes our indwelling sin continues to harass us on the road to holiness and we struggle with knowing for sure that we are saved. I believe this …
“By This We Know”: Assurance of Faith in John’s Epistles Read More »
In Zechariah 3, God makes a glorious promise about the forgiveness of His people’s sin. There is much to encourage us in this passage in our fight against sin and the condemnation of the devil. This article will walk through Zechariah 3 and examine how we can apply it today. The Context of Zechariah 3 …
“I Will Remove the Iniquity”: An Exposition of Zechariah 3 Read More »
The story that Scripture tells is like a river, rushing for miles with twists and turns. In the midst of this progressing narrative there are familiar elements that serve as harbingers of the grand climax of God’s work of redemption. Jim Hamilton calls these “promise-shaped patterns”. Generally, they are referred to as “types”. Types can …
“I am the LORD Who Brought You Out”: The Pattern of Exodus in Scripture Read More »
What is the significance of the Ascension? Today, it seems that evangelical protestant theology has largely neglected the doctrine of Christ’s ascension. After all, the actual passages that speak of the resurrected Christ leaving earth to return to heaven in glory are few and short on details (Luke 24:50-53, Acts 1:9-11, Mark 16:19). Essentially, the …
Revelation is one of the hardest books to understand in the Bible. Certainly, it is the most mysterious in the New Testament. Sadly, this has resulted in either great neglect of Revelation and its message or bizarre obsession with the book, which leaves faithful interpretation behind for the sake of wild imagination and speculation. Elsewhere, …
The Time is Near: Towards a Preterist-Idealist Approach to Interpreting Revelation Read More »
The body of Christ is one body. It has many members but it is not many bodies. It is a matter of “many” making up “one”. As I wrote about last week, the oneness and unity of Christ’s body, the Church, is a central part of our identity as the people of God. God’s kingdom …
When the Lord Jesus Christ taught us to pray, He instructed us to petition our Heavenly Father that His kingdom would come and His will would be done on earth as it is in heaven (Matt. 6:9-10). There are a number of things this may mean. It expresses the petition that all the earth would …
Human worth, from a Christian perspective, is rooted in the identity of humans as image-bearers of God. We are told in the very first chapter of the Bible that: Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over …
What Does It Mean to Be Made in the Image of God? Read More »
