Christ and the Cross
A Call to Revolution
Saturday, May 17th, 2008It is the year 2008. The gospel has been spreading and the Kingdom of Christ has been growing for nearly two thousand years. But not without setbacks. For almost a thousand years, in the middle ages, the gospel was slowly obscured by the corruptions of a satanically-influenced medieval church. The light was almost entirely extinguished. […]
Coming to Christ
Sunday, March 16th, 2008Before I saw Christ, oh, how I feared to come to God! He was holy and I was sinful. He was righteous and I was guilty. He was wrathful and I was a child of wrath, deserving of every eternal torment. But then God’s merciful Spirit opened my eyes to the King of Glory, and […]
The Superiority of the New Covenant Blessings Consists Entirely in the Coming of the Son of God
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008In his letter to the Hebrews, the author goes to some lengths to describe the superior position, and the many greater blessings and assurances, that God’s people enjoy today, which their fathers did not possess to nearly so great a degree; and everywhere throughout the letter, he makes considerable effort to show how that superior […]
Six Indicators of Jesus’ Eternal Sonship
Friday, April 27th, 2007Jesus is frequently referred to as the Son who “was sent into the world,” “comes into the world,” etc.; the implication is clear that he was the Son before his incarnation. See especially the parable in Matthew 21:33-41 (also included in Mark and Luke). Also, Romans 8:3; John 3:17, 10:36, 11:27; Galatians 4:4; I John […]
The Word of God, The Fullness of God
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007Those passages in which Christ is spoken of as containing within himself all the fullness of the Godhead (Colossians 2:9), or else all fullness in general (Colossians 1:19); together with those passages which indicate that all things are, in some sense, summed up in him (e.g. Ephesians 1:10), are, by virtue of the mind-bending comprehensiveness […]
Eighteen Months: A Reflection
Friday, December 1st, 2006It has been, as of today, eighteen months since I first began posting articles on this web page. This significant lapse of time, combined with the frequently tiresome labor by which it has been characterized, has caused me to spend some considerable time, over the past few days, reflecting on my original motivation and goals […]
The Centrality of the Cross
Friday, April 14th, 2006The Centrality of the Cross