Love the World. Don’t Love the World.

Have you ever wondered how John 3:16 (“God so loved the world that he gave his only son”) can go together with 1 John 2:15 (“Do not love the world or the things in the world”)–that is, how they can exist together without being...

Orientation and Scripture: Audio Now Posted

Over at the new Audio page, we’ve posted the links to studies (from last summer) on the concepts of orientation and gender in scripture. Some of the discussions around this topic get needlessly complicated by assertions that miss the central issue: Does God...

Nine reasons we won’t be raptured? (Part 2)

This is part 2 of a multi-part series of posts responding to Justin Taylor & John Piper’s article “9 Reasons We Can Be Confident Christians Won’t Be Raptured Before the Tribulation.” You can read the introduction to the series and read all nine...

The Events of the Day of the Lord

The studies on the our last two Monday night have had a lot to do with the time period the bible refers to as “The Day of the Lord.” While reading in Dwight Pentecost’s book Things to Come I found this list of the events that seem to happen in this...

What Jesus didn’t say…

This piece by Kevin DeYoung has a bit of an “edge,” but still, probably a good two-minute thought experiment. Here’s what you won’t read in the Gospel of Matthew… “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets: I...