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Clear searchTal Brooke · Christian investigation · 1979
I recommend The Other Side of Death because it refuses to treat every extraordinary experience as self-authenticating. Brooke places popular claims about death, consciousness, spirit guides, reincarnation, and the afterl…
View recommendation →Near-death experiences, neuroscience, and the authority of Christ
Beyond the Tunnel of Light Near-death experiences, neuroscience, and the authority of Christ Many years ago I read Tal Brooke's The Other Side of Death: Does Death Seal Your Destiny? The book stayed with me. Published…
Read article →The near was real. The far is still coming.
…King, Zion and the Coming Kingdom: Reading Isaiah 32–35 Across the Prophetic Horizon The near was real. The far is still coming. The historical horizon and the question of fulfilment “Was this fulfilled, or is it still future?” That is often a necessary question when reading bib…
Read article →Spiritual ecstasy, altered states, and discerning what is from God
…their ordinary sense of self, and feelings of being absorbed into a greater reality. Such experiences may be beautiful, terrifying, or apparently life-changing. They can feel more real than everyday life. Those who undergo them may be left convinced that they have encountered God…
Read article →Two failures, two responses, and the difference between remorse and repentance
…orrows Two failures, two responses, and the difference between remorse and repentance Few experiences are more painful than awakening to the seriousness of our own sin. The excuses fall away, the damage becomes clear, and conscience begins to speak. We may feel guilt, grief, sham…
Read article →The incarnation, the limits of created perspective and the love philosophy could not imagine
…n. Christianity replies that God’s transcendence is not threatened by His freedom to draw near—and that the incarnation was not a physical act of begetting, but the eternal Son’s assumption of human nature. (See Note 4.) The Stoic sought freedom from passions that disturbed ratio…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…mystery of Jew and Gentile united in one body is disclosed (Ephesians 3:3-6); and Israel experiences partial hardening "until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in" (Romans 11:25). This present period is not evidence that God has abandoned Israel. Jewish people continue to be s…
Read article →Eustathius of Antioch, the human soul of Christ and the pictures created by our words
…ays that He “increased in wisdom and stature” (Luke 2:52). He became hungry and weary. He experienced grief and anguish. In Gethsemane He said: “My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death.” — Matthew 26:38 Hebrews says that He was made like His brethren, suffered when tempte…
Read article →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…sions, conference speakers, and a succession of teachers who claim to have recovered what nearly everyone else has missed. He speaks often of leaving this world, seldom of bodily resurrection, and hardly at all of the local church. Baptism and the Lord's Supper seem peripheral. O…
Read article →Testing Islam's evidence for divine revelation
…ndly affected Arabic-speaking hearers. Its liturgical recitation cannot be reduced to the experience of silently reading an English translation. Even readers who do not accept Islam can recognise that the Qur'an occupies an extraordinary place in Arabic literary and religious his…
Read article →A response to Michael Horton on the land promise, Amos 9, and the people of God
…e northern kingdom fell to Assyria; Judah was carried into Babylon; and later generations experienced further dispersion. But the threatened judgement is not the whole prophetic message. The same passages that announce exile also anticipate restoration. Leviticus 26 describes Isr…
Read article →The peace Christ gives in a troubled world
…us avoid the questions we cannot answer. Its peace is finally powerless before guilt and death. The world may teach us to manage regret, but it cannot remove sin. It may postpone death, but it cannot defeat it. It cannot reconcile us to God. The world can offer peace when the th…
Read article →Creation, judgement, and the coming reign of Christ
…God says, "cursed is the ground for thy sake" (Genesis 3:17). Thorns, painful labour, and death enter the experience of a creature made from the dust. The ground from which man was taken now bears witness to his fall. When Cain murders Abel, the blood of the victim cries to God "…
Read article →The glory philosophy could not contain
…he Incarnation does not become absurd merely because it exceeds the limits of our created experience. The God who made the universe is not imprisoned by it. He is not merely outside our box; He is the reason there is a box at all. That truth should do more than answer an objectio…
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