How does God accomplish “His Will” in the world? We are told that nothing can stand in the way of God’s will and that nothing will prevent God from bringing about his will. When you think about God being this all powerful and all wise God, it seems like something that makes sense. Of course, […]
Here are the issues we have. There’s debate on whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God. One side says they do not, that Christian’s and Muslims have such a radically different view of God that when either one of them is speaking about God, they are literally talking about two different beings. It’s not […]
The evangelical story that’s told is people need Jesus to get into heaven. Why is Jesus the prerequisite for heaven? The story continues to go on and say that we need Jesus because we need a savior. We are in a position where we can’t remedy our predicament ourselves and need someone to save us […]
Growing up a Christian in America, my understanding of the cross and effects of it is filtered primarily through a penal substitutionary lens. Essentially, this view holds that on the cross, Christ stood in as a “substitute” for us and received the punishment for our “penalty” of sin. We as humans our imperfect and sin, […]
I want to propose that God treats “His people” different than He treats other people. Before I get into it, I need to set the scene and do a little work to show where I’m coming from. I think one of the most common mistakes people make with God is incorrectly assigning Him obligatory acts. […]
Are you saved? Have you ever had anyone ask you that question? Outside the Christian community, I think this concept of being “saved” sometimes can be difficult to understand what it really means. Even within the Christian community I think this term and concept is misunderstood. Like most things in life, there are multiple ways […]
The doctrine of sin seems like it should be straightforward and easily understood. However, the more you begin to look and try to pin down exactly what sin is, why exactly something is a sin at all, it becomes a little tricky and we see the elusiveness of sin. It becomes even more important to […]
Hell may be the most difficult and offensive doctrine of all Christian doctrines. In its most simple description, it is eternal separation from God. When you look into that just a little deeper, you see the horror it predicts. Christians affirm that God is good and that all good things come from God. This means […]
In philosophy, there’s an age-old question about the nature of good. Namely, what is good, and by what standard do we use to judge what good is? Now, I’m not planning on going into the arguments for what people have said about this question, and how they have gotten there. I more so just want […]
The law God has revealed to us can be mysterious in many ways. It can be difficult to accept, to uphold, to understand, to follow, to realize it’s purpose. It commonly lacks proper explanation in how it pertains to the bible, God, people, Jesus, and Christianity. Before we can understand the depth and breadth the […]
Power of Words 