Faith, assurance, and the unseen reality of God
…ent: “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” — Hebrews 11:1, KJV There is something profound here. Things still hoped for have a present substance. Things still unseen carry conviction. Faith enables a person to live now in the assurance…
Read article →The covenant son and the sacrifice that points to Christ
…ay: "And we gave him tidings of the birth of Isaac, a prophet of the righteous" (Surah 37:112, Pickthall). Many Muslim interpreters therefore reason that the first boy cannot be Isaac. Isaac is announced later, so the unnamed sacrificial son must be Ishmael. The association of Ab…
Read article →Why Israel's failure cannot make the word of God fail
…nounced seventy years of Babylonian domination and also the appointed return (Jeremiah 25:11-12; 29:10-14). Severity and mercy are not competing portraits of God. Both show that He means what He says. Israel's unbelief cannot cancel God's truth Paul confronts the principle early…
Read article →Born, begotten and firstborn in the eternal identity and saving work of the Son
…gs, the purpose for which all things exist, and the one by whom all things hold together. Hebrews adds that God made the worlds through the Son, who is “the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person,” and who continually upholds “all things by the word of his p…
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