Coming Untrue

“What’s the difference between forgiveness and reconciliation?” When translating scripture from one language to another, experts must ta...

I was asked to do a study on sinless perfectionism recently for the first time in my life. You might think that’s a subject we’d have hand...

In the course of our studies in the Minor Prophets, it has come to our attention repeatedly that prophetic utterances often apply to multi...

In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. Sunny Shell no longer follows John Piper or any o...

It’s been a good winter for walking. There’s hardly been any ice on the sidewalks, for one thing. For another, you could go out in Febr...

Theologians refer to something called the “penal substitutionary theory of atonement” (PSA), which is a complicated way of trying to expla...

The cross of Christ saves men and women from the wrath of God. That notion troubles Matthew Distefano. He’s probably not the only one, b...

“What does it mean to be dead to sin?” The phrase “dead to sin” comes from the language of Romans 6, in almost every translation you can...

Every little local church has its characters. That’s not exactly what Peter was referring to when he called us a “ peculiar people ”, but ...

The last verses of the previous chapter of Zephaniah contemplate the obliteration of the capital city of Assyria, Nineveh. Much has been...

In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. History has produced some seriously wicked people....

“They said, ‘Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name...

Science promoters reassure us of the safety of the peer review process. Most people imagine peer review consists of teams of scientists pe...

The apostle Peter is writing about the letters of the apostle Paul, and he has this to say: “There are some things in them that are hard t...

“What does God have to say to single mothers?” “ Go and sin no more ”? Okay, not funny. More than a few single mothers — widows, aband...

Andy Stanley has taken a fair bit of flack for statements like this one about the inerrancy of scripture: “When a specific view of inspi...

Buried amidst all the specific prophesied judgments of Zephaniah 2 is this more general statement: “The Lord will … famish all the gods of...

In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. Time has a way of dealing with issues that once se...

“ We’re setting sail To the place on the map From which no one has ever returned Drawn by the promise of the joker and the fool By t...

Little is known about the writer of Psalm 89, but it’s still a great deal more than we know about the writers of some other psalms. Etha...