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Clear searchTertullian · Apologetic, doctrinal, and practical treatises · c. 197–220
…ogetics, prophecy, doctrine, courage under persecution, and an uncompromising emphasis on holy living. Tertullian is an early witness, not a final authority. His later association with the New Prophecy, his growing severity, and some extreme practical conclusions require discernm…
View recommendation →Jesus and the fountain of living water
If Any Man Thirst Jesus and the fountain of living water There is a thirst deeper than the body's need. It is the ache of the soul when the things we hoped would satisfy us have not done so. Success can distract it. Pleasure can brief…
Read article →Labour, purpose, and faithfulness in a fallen world
…3:23 That passage addressed servants and slaves. It must not be used to make exploitation holy or to silence people suffering abuse. In the same section Paul warned masters that they too had a Master in heaven and must give what is just and equal (Colossians 4:1). Human authority…
Read article →C. I. Scofield · Pastoral sermons · 1915
…argument is cumulative and rewards thoughtful rereading. New life in Christ Christ in us Holy Spirit Consecration Cleansing Christian joy Spiritual growth
View recommendation →The peace Christ gives in a troubled world
…. The promised Comforter The promise of peace cannot be separated from the promise of the Holy Spirit. Immediately before speaking of peace, Jesus said: "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all…
Read article →How the Lord knows His own—and how their lives bear His name
…d established. Moses answered: "Even to morrow the Lord will shew who are his, and who is holy; and will cause him to come near unto him." —Numbers 16:5 He then warned the congregation: "Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye…
Read article →Trusting God when voices seek to weaken our confidence
…e conclusion Rabshakeh demanded was false. Assyria’s victories did not establish that the living God was powerless. Intimidation often works by joining a real difficulty to an unjustified conclusion: You are vulnerable; therefore God cannot be trusted. Others have surrendered; th…
Read article →Two failures, two responses, and the difference between remorse and repentance
…te: “For God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.” —1 Peter 5:5 After the Holy Ghost came at Pentecost, Peter publicly proclaimed the Christ whom he had once denied. The frightened disciple became a courageous witness. He did not become useful because his failure…
Read article →Why the Trinity is not polytheism—and why Christians confess one God
…often rejected before it is accurately defined. “The Father is God, Jesus is God, and the Holy Spirit is God,” the objection runs. “That makes three gods.” It would—if Christians believed the Father, Son, and Spirit were three separate divine beings. Historic Christianity denies…
Read article →Spiritual ecstasy, altered states, and discerning what is from God
…the brain. It cannot place God inside a scanner, nor can it determine whether a spirit is holy, deceptive, or imaginary. That is a question of truth and spiritual discernment, not merely neurological measurement. The brain may help explain how an experience is received. It cannot…
Read article →The Gospel, Human Perception, and the Illuminating Work of the Holy Spirit
WHAT DID THEY REJECT? The Gospel, Human Perception, and the Illuminating Work of the Holy Spirit We sometimes describe an evangelistic conversation in a single sentence: “I explained the gospel, and he rejected it.” That may be an accurate description. Scripture certainly sp…
Read article →How Christians can think politically without surrendering conscience to a package deal
…re corrupt governing culture. Princes shed blood. Priests blurred the distinction between holy and profane. Prophets covered wrongdoing with religious reassurance. The people practised extortion and oppressed the poor and the stranger (Ezekiel 22:6–29). Micah accused rulers of ha…
Read article →Not escape from the body, but its redemption
…e rescuing souls from the wreckage. Scripture ends with a new heaven and a new earth, the holy city, the river of life, the tree of life and God's dwelling with His people (Revelation 21–22). The final hope is physical without being merely physical. God will dwell with us. We sha…
Read article →El, the Exodus, and the God Who Came from Sinai
…Yahweh’s glorious manifestation. The verse itself identifies the event: He comes with His holy ones and gives His law. The following lines celebrate His love for the people and His kingship in Jeshurun. Habakkuk deliberately carries the same memory into a new crisis: “God came fr…
Read article →Why the Son assumed a complete human nature, not merely a body
…anything with it. Christians use soul in more than one way. Sometimes it means the whole living person: “eight souls were saved by water” (1 Peter 3:20). Sometimes it refers to life itself. Sometimes it describes the inward life in distinction from the body. Scripture can also s…
Read article →Eustathius of Antioch, the human soul of Christ and the pictures created by our words
…ssumed has not been healed. A Christ without a human mind cannot redeem the human mind by living a complete human life of faithfulness and obedience. The distinction also helps us speak of the cross. The Son of God truly suffered and died; Christians must never turn the crucifixi…
Read article →The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, and Paul's revealed mystery
…rophetic world of Israel: The abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel stands in the holy place. Those in Judea must flee to the mountains. Flight on the sabbath day creates a specific difficulty. False messianic claimants exploit Israel's expectation. The Son of man appears…
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
…ith the timing and directed them to their immediate worldwide mission in the power of the Holy Ghost. He did not say that there would be no restoration, that Israel now meant the Church, or that their expectation was based upon a false reading of the prophets. This does not make…
Read article →The man of sin, the last trumpet, the first resurrection, and the last day
…the "last trump" Revelation's seventh trumpet? Paul says that the dead will be raised and living believers changed "at the last trump" (1 Corinthians 15:52). Revelation later presents seven trumpets. It is tempting to equate Paul's last with John's seventh. The identity must be d…
Read article →Does John 6 teach the literal eating of Christ's body?
…agines a second entrance into his mother’s womb (John 3:4). The woman of Samaria hears of living water and asks for a supply which will end her journeys to the well (John 4:11–15). Here the crowd hears of heavenly bread and asks for a continuing provision of food. In each case, e…
Read article →Signs, expectancy, and the event the Church is told to await
…hand" in verse 2 can mean present. Paul reassures persecuted believers that they are not living in that unveiled day of lawlessness and judgement. Verse 1 states the ground of his appeal—Christ's coming and their gathering to Him. Verse 3's supplied phrase "that day shall not co…
Read article →Seeing God, bodily resurrection, and life in the renewed creation
…redemption, but the people who see Him are resurrected, gathered, serving, reigning, and living in a creation God has made new. What the beatific vision rightly protects Christian hope is God-centred. Its highest good is not reunion with family, freedom from pain, beautiful surr…
Read article →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
…nal week as a period in which God completes His declared purposes for Daniel’s people and holy city, while the prophets repeatedly join Israel’s distress to national deliverance, cleansing and restoration. Once those non-essential claims have been removed, however, Hanegraaff has…
Read article →Why the distinction matters when we speak about Jesus
…tion does not belong to His infancy. The man who thirsted beside the well is the giver of living water. The one whose hands were nailed to the cross is the Lord of glory. The statements are astonishing because of the identity of the Person, not because deity has been changed into…
Read article →Sources behind Qur’anic narratives
…ble: text Jesus ↓ Forms birds from clay ↓ Acts upon the clay figures ↓ The figures become living birds The story is much older than Islam. The Infancy Gospel of Thomas is ordinarily assigned to the second century, although its manuscript history is complex. In 2024 scholars publi…
Read article →The Messiah cut off before the Temple fell
…nty years, confesses the sins of his people and pleads for mercy upon God’s sanctuary and holy city. Gabriel then gives an answer which expands the horizon from seventy years to seventy “weeks” or sevens: “Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to fi…
Read article →Creation, judgement, and the coming reign of Christ
…tives of the animal creation, and the covenant after the Flood repeatedly includes "every living creature" (Genesis 9:8-17). The earth is not the sinner, but it suffers under sinners. Human rebellion radiates outwards. Ground, crops, animals, cities, and generations become involv…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…which preceded it. Christianity says that the one God eternally exists as Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Islam treats that confession as an assault upon divine unity. Christianity says that reconciliation rests upon Christ’s finished sacrifice. Islam calls people to submission, repe…
Read article →Hippolytus · Exposition, prophecy, and polemic · early third century
…llennial witness, and repeated concern that Christian belief should issue in faithful and holy living. Treat Hippolytus as an important early witness rather than an authority whose every conclusion is binding. The identity of Hippolytus and the authorship of some works traditiona…
View recommendation →What mercy, holiness and the cross reveal about God
…eneral mercy and saving mercy need not be identical. Nor should a Christian object that a holy God must love wickedness or approve the unrepentant. Love which delights in cruelty would not be virtuous love. Moral opposition to corruption is not a defect in God. The real question…
Read article →Constantine, Arius, the Trinity, the biblical canon—and the myths that refuse to die
…ted into a Trinity, placing in their order the three Persons—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost: three, however, not in condition, but in degree; not in substance, but in form … yet of one substance.” —Tertullian, Against Praxeas, 2 Tertullian's old translation is dense, but…
Read article →Michael Brown, 2 Thessalonians 1, and the public vindication of the saints
…of those slain for the word of God and for their testimony. They cry: “How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?” —Revelation 6:10 These martyrs are no longer being physically persecuted. They are in heaven, beyond…
Read article →Earth-dwellers, heaven-dwellers, and the literary structure of the Apocalypse
…nt, the Church must be present. The conclusion assumes what must be proved. Saint means a holy person. Israel had saints before Pentecost. The Church did not create God's ability to save. If the Church is gathered before the final week, people may still believe through the testim…
Read article →A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…re shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place... Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains." —Matthew 24:15-16 The holy place, Judea, the mountains, and the danger of returning from the housetop or field form a…
Read article →The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
…ure explicitly teaches the event. The Lord descends from heaven; the dead in Christ rise; living believers are changed; and together they are caught up to meet Him in the air (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; 1 Corinthians 15:50-54). The question is not whether Christians should believe…
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