Coming Untrue

I am reliably informed that in the days of my youth, when I was apparently even more attractive, a sweet young thing from church had a se...

There’s an odd and rather bleak passage in Job in which he compares human beings to trees. “A man dies and is laid low,” says the beleagu...

“How should Christians view retirement?” There is a little bar on a major street near where I used to live. It’s owned by a Greek fellow...

“The fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.” The book is Revelation, and before us is the marriage supper of the Lamb. The B...

The phrase “the children of Israel did evil” (in some modern translations, “people”) appears exactly seven times throughout the book of Ju...

In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. If there’s a single more common inter-generational...

“Where two or three are gathered …” I’ve heard this little phrase quoted for years in churches all over the place. I’ve almost never he...

Sunday’s ad hoc Easter post (lifted last minute from a reader-supplied YouTube link) implicitly asked a humorous question that I’d like ...

Paul’s letter to Titus is full of commands to a young man acting as the apostle’s agent among the congregations in the towns of Crete; co...

“If cessationism is true, then why does God seem to continue to work through Pentecostal churches?” For anyone unfamiliar with the term,...

This YouTube short posted by ConversationswithaCalvinist and uploaded just in time for Easter weekend captures … well, it captures somet...

Verse 7 of Judges 3 will bring us to the next section of Judges, telling twelve stories of the judges God raised up to deliver Israel over...

In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. Years ago I would regularly come across stories of...

We’re in the final half of our final chapter in our thinking about Social Justice and the church. Last week, we were working through what ...

“… and the Philistines struck down Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul.” Jonathan’s death was not as ignominious as...

Do you ever find yourself looking at a passage of scripture you’ve read a hundred times and realizing you never really processed it? I had...

“Does an unmarried couple who have sex become married in God’s eyes?” Some years ago, I had a late night phone call from an old friend t...

Mark structured what later became the second chapter of his gospel around four questions, all of which begin with the word “Why?” (The oth...

A public appearance by the angel of the Lord in front of large numbers of people is quite exceptional. Indeed, for God to mete out justice...

In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. It’s been years since I paid a great deal of attent...