Coming Untrue

It is often quite incorrectly believed that evil is a product of stupidity and that the answer to stupidity is education, which, generally...

“What does ‘I shall not want’ mean?” This famous line from Psalm 23 has been translated many different ways, from the NIV’s “I lack noth...

Sometimes the best way to get at the biblical meaning of a word is to strip it of all the false notions that encrust it. Within evangelica...

Zechariah’s final message of four is full of hope. Responding to a question from the men of Bethel about when Judah’s seventy years of jud...

In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. You don’t have to spend much time in the company o...

Lynette writes: “If you have time, are you able to post a response to one of [Matt Littlefield’s] latest articles?” We live to serve,...

The broken reed is one of the Old Testament’s more striking and memorable metaphors. I remember coming across it for the first time in the...

Lynette writes: “Hi. I just came across a few of your articles where you address some of the views held by pastor Matt Littlefield. In t...

“When is the right time to build a new church building?” Church buildings have a long history, though the New Testament makes no mention...

I grew up believing in the rapture because people around me did. I won’t apologize for that, because it’s entirely normal, and there’s no ...

Get ready, we’re going to do a little time traveling for the next week or two. Zechariah’s fourth message from God is his longest, even ...

In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. Last week we talked about a recent study entitled ...

“Go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father , to my God and your God .’ ” In church circles, my fa...

So many failures of understanding in the Christian life are a product of conflating the metaphorical and the literal. It strikes me that t...

My dad was not the sort of man given to what we used to call “hairy fits”, but if he were still with us, he might just have had his first ...

“Does the Bible support the pre-existence of Jesus?” I love trick questions. I don’t suppose the author of today’s intended it to be tr...

I have heard the story of the Fall retold many different ways. In a 2014 sermon, Matt Chandler put Adam in the driver’s seat , actually b...

Sin has consequences. The vast majority of these are no fun. The usual result of experiencing the consequences of sin is sorrow, and sorro...

In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. Immanuel Can: Hey Tom, I’ve been reading a major r...

“Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you .” What? “Do not be surprised?” Well, that is kind of surprising in our ag...