Is scripture literally true? This is a loaded question. If I answer yes, then I am stating that all language in scripture should be understood literally, which is clearly not the case. Here’s a wonderful example of non-literal language being used in the Bible. “Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his ...

N.T. “Tom” Wright is one of my favorite authors. This is a great video where he tackles a common conspiracy theory that attempts to undermine the historicity of the gospels. ...

Most Christians know they ought to study the Bible. Many of those don’t really know how. Here are a few thoughts that will hopefully help to point you in the right direction. 1. Read for the big picture. The Bible is essentially the story of Creation, Redemption, and New Creation. Reading a few verses or even a ...

I recently finished teaching a class at my church called “What Does God Know About Tomorrow?” This class on the topic of divine foreknowledge briefly surveyed the Reformed, Arminian, and Open views, and the related issues of God’s sovereignty, Man’s free will, God’s relationship to time, ...

For those of you who don’t know, I am currently involved in an online discussion called “Belling the Cat”. This is a discussion between me and my dear friend Jace. He’s an agnostic in matters of faith and in rather vehement opposition to Christianity, though not quite as much as he used to be. ...

My friend Yancy Smith recently used a metaphor about scripture that has really stuck with me. I’m paraphrasing him here, but the basic idea is that the Bible is like an amazing menu at a wonderful restaurant. The point of the menu is the meal. The accurate information in the menu only fulfills its purpose if it ...

Meditation is Scriptural In recent memory the spiritual practice of meditation has been mostly neglected by the people of God and instead counterfeited by practitioners of “Eastern” categories of religion and spirituality. Many Christ followers in the west shy away from this practice for the simple reason ...

In the last post I introduced the idea that, as Dutch Sheets says, all truth comes to us in seed form. What to a writer, teacher, or preacher may be mature and fruit bearing revelation is still received by me as a simple seed. Whether that seed will ever bear fruit in my life depends upon a lot of factors: the ...

John 6:63 63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. John 6:68 68 But Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have eaten from the wrong tree. It was a long time ago but it ...

John 5:37-4037 And the Father Himself, who sent Me, has testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His form. 38 But you do not have His word abiding in you, because whom He sent, Him you do not believe. 39 You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these ...