Lip Service

Is Jesus undermining the Pharisee’s Israel restoration project that is attempting to force into effect an end of history kingdom of God that they approve of?

Days of Waiting, Watching, and Waning?

We, a community of those who confess the lordship of Jesus Christ, met on the Lord’s Day to hear again about the Day of the Lord.

Sea Change

Scripture begins by telling an old story and ends by retelling the old story with a new and final outcome. Both narratives involve chaos and creation.

Evil’s Last Grasp

The power of evil was all around them and they were looking for a divine rescue.

Reentry

“Why are you clinging to God? Here Gagarin flew into space and didn’t see God.”

Surface Readings

Impending doom has been in the news during my entire lifetime.

What’s Your Relationship with Wisdom?

James, steeped in Jewish wisdom-traditions, knows that wisdom belongs to the very nature of God himself. He knows that wisdom comes to man only as a divine gift. He writes telling readers to ask for the divine gift of wisdom by faith.

Image Bearers in the Age of Images

It would be quite easy to glide into a religious pluralism and end up worshipping the vaunted images of the world – “Great is Ephesian Artemis!” – and not the reality of the Son of God. One would thus end up having a form of godliness but denying its power. Neither John the Elder nor I want anything to do with such people.