If God were to speak to us with the “language of heaven” would we be able to understand such a revelation? Could it ever be translated or would it be mystical and sublime, suitable only for incantation?[2] Many world religions approach spiritual concepts with the presumption that they must be esoteric and hard to understand.[3] But in... Continue Reading

Moses’s sin and mortality made it so he could not finish the job he had spent most of the latter years of his life working toward. We are not all that different. The Lord has given us all work to do in this life and for his Kingdom. Though we may all do a decent... Continue Reading

God’s Word is the means by which God works in you both to will and to do his good pleasure, purifying you by his work of sanctification through faith in your Savior, Jesus Christ. This is the fear of God that is clean and endures forever.   We often think of “fear” in a negative... Continue Reading

Something is superstitious if it gives God a merely external service and a grace-defacing worship. God does not care for this. It makes fleshly observations step into the place of God’s spiritual worship. Augustine used the word, “The kingdom of God is within you” (Luke 17:21), against superstitious persons, who devoted their primary concern to... Continue Reading

We are in need of being a genuine family in these difficult days. We need one another and that need will only increase over time. Let me make a simple suggestion. I don’t need to help you love those you already love, but what about those who are like the Thessalonians, those less noble. How... Continue Reading

The devil successfully tempts no one who is not seeking to listen to his lies. Eve had already decided that God’s word was untrue and without merit for her self-identity when the Serpent came to speak to her about the forbidden fruit. If we fool ourselves into thinking that what the wickedest person on TV... Continue Reading

Paul was clear about what he believed patriotism involved for those who are Christians. His use of “fight the good fight” is a patriotic warfare idiom for one who perseveres in loyalty to King and heavenly country by fighting war campaigns to preserve the welfare of the God’s kingdom on earth. In this way a... Continue Reading

We live in a post-fall world, a reality which affects everything we do, including marriage. It’s the union of two people who both love each other very much, but who both have a very serious and chronic problem: sin. Marriage means that two selfish ‘me’s’ have to start learning to think like one unified ‘us.’ They... Continue Reading

The important point for this brief study is that biblical typology and allegory must be distinguished, and second, we must remember that these categories are fundamentally in the domain of revelation and not foremost an interpretative endeavor.   In recent theological scholarship there is a move to combine typology and allegory under the heading of figural... Continue Reading

When we look at the claims of the apostles recorded throughout the New Testament, they appear to follow this same approach. Rather than appealing to their own feelings or internal experiences, they continually pointed to that which they heard with their ears, saw with their eyes, and touched with their hands (1Jn 1:1, 3). In... Continue Reading