Spiritual Warfare with Apollyon the Destroyer
Supplemental teaching for session Six of Wayne Grudem’s 20 Life-Transforming Truths My Grandad used to say that too often we Christians are creatures of extremes. It’s one thing to be either decisive or indecisive with a restaurant menu, or either...
read moreThe God of Hope Behind the Answer We’d Rather Not Hear
Supplemental teaching for session Five of Wayne Grudem’s 20 Life-Transforming Truths For every dramatic story of answered prayer, there seems to be no shortage of stories of unanswered prayer. Sometimes the sky above is like brass against which the arrows...
read moreGod is Near and Distant
Supplemental teaching for session Four of Wayne Grudem’s 20 Life Transforming Truths What do you make of the cosmos, the complex and orderly system we call the universe? At the most general level, how do you think about the nature...
read moreGod Is Simple
Supplemental teaching for session Two of Wayne Grudem’s 20 Life Transforming Truths God is a single and simple spiritual being. At first blush it may sound strange to our ears to hear that God is simple. But by simple I...
read morePopular Objections to the Bible as God’s Word
Supplemental teaching for session One of Wayne Grudem’s 20 Life Transforming Truths The Bible is God’s word – inspired, inerrant, authoritative, sufficient, clear, and necessary. This is what we evangelical Christians believe about the Bible because this is what the...
read moreUnion with Christ: The Underdog Doctrine (Part Two)
It almost goes without saying that every area of expertise uses its own special terms of reference. Good mechanics know limited slip differentials. Good carpenters know scissor trusses. Good nurses know cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Good Teachers know Bloom’s taxonomy. And good...
read moreUnion with Christ: The Underdog Doctrine (Part 1)
I can’t explain it but I’ve always had a thing for underdogs (feel free to psycho-analyze). Whether it be choice of friends, team to cheer for, or movie to watch (think Rudy or Rocky), if there’s an underdog I’m engaged....
read moreNew Birth: A Lesson from Lewis
C.S. Lewis became a Christian in 1931. Best known for authoring The Chronicles of Narnia in the 1950’s, it was in 1932 that he became a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford where he served as a tutor in English Language...
read moreWas Adam a Historical Person?
Recently at one of our Growth Group meetings a very significant question was raised that’s well worth delving into. It’s a question that I believe will be increasingly asked in the years ahead: Was the original man, Adam, in Genesis...
read moreFYI: The Bible on the History Channel
Normally, I find out about great programs to watch on TV after they air, but this time I’ve heard about an “epic” TV mini-series that starts tomorrow. On Sunday (March 3), The History Channel begins a ten-hour five-part series on...
read moreHave a Christward Christmas
For us Christians the Christmas season can come and go like the swell of a shallow wave, or perhaps like a brief starburst of light mixed with festive glitter to tide over the darkest days of the winter. We’re reminded...
read moreChristmas Contrasts
Christmas is rich and rife with the paradox of Christ… He descended that we might ascend (John 6:38, 14:3).He became poor that we might become rich (2 Cor.8:9, Jas. 2:5).He was born that we might be born again (John 1:14,...
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