What does the bible say about the eternal destiny of those who never have an opportunity to hear the gospel?  Recent confusion over how to answer this question has effectively decentralized missions and evangelism from the evangelical church.  Pre-order Piper’s newest book, Jesus: the only way to God – Must you hear the gospel to [...]

Ezekiel 11:17-21
Therefore say, Thus says the Lord GOD: I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered and I will give you the land of Israel.’ And when they come there, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations.  [...]

Hebrew 3:12-14:
12a Take care, brothers, 12b lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. 13a But exhort one another every day, 13b as long as it is called “today,” 13c that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14 [...]

Doug Wilson on evangelism:
The Bible not only teaches that the world is the way that God made it, and not the way we would like it to be, but the Bible also teaches that every man actually knows this, and that no man has an excuse for denying it. The world the way God made [...]

The Pentateuch may be compared to a Rembrandt painting of real persons or events.  We do not understand a Rembrandt painting by taking a photograph of the “thing” that Rembrandt painted and comparing it with the painting itself.  That may help us understand the “thing” that Rembrandt painted, his subject matter, but it will not [...]

Kevin DeYoung helps to clarify what different Christian communities mean by the phrase social justice by acknowledging an unconstrained and constrained vision.  Here is a question that helps us differentiate between a constrained and unconstrained vision of social justice.  Is it always, in every circumstance, just to give food to the hungry person? Before I [...]

I was directed to the blog-post of a friend, and it has deeply challenged me. Here, Dieudonne Tamfu, argues that it is not in keeping with Scripture to say “thank you” to other people.  Rather, he says that the bible directs us to say, “I give thanks to God for you.”  Take a look [...]

I’ve read the first 10 books of the bible in the last month, very slowly and carefully, and one of the conclusions I’ve come to is that the bible is very real.  The bible doesn’t paint for us an idealistic portrait of existence, rather, it paints for us an accurate portrait of existence, in all [...]

Here is a very recent comment (with minor corrections) that I made on the blog-post of a friend who is denying the inerrancy of Scripture.  He posits, that when we are faced with an apparent error or contradiction in the bible, we should trust our current judgment and assume that what we are seeing is [...]

As long as I have been a Christian I have had trouble with the way many in the Church have framed the assurance of salvation.
Popular Christianity seems to have given the most attention to two particular views on this subject.  On the one hand, there are those who stress the doctrine of assurance in terms [...]