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What Does “the gates of hell” Mean?
All my Christian life, now north of 45 years, I misunderstood the phrase “gates of hell.” What comes into your mind when you read Jesus’ resounding declaration: And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades (hell)...
The Civilizational Implications of The Fruit of the Spirit vs. The Acts of the Flesh
One of the great contributions, of many, of the Apostle Paul to Christian Western civilization is laying out in Galatians 5 the juxtaposition between those who live by the Spirit and those who live by the flesh. Paul calls it the fruit of the Spirit and the acts of...
Paul Ends Romans with a Postmillennial Exhortation
It had been quite a while since I read through Romans, and whenever that was, I was most definitely not a postmillennialist. For much of my Christian life I was a “pan-millennialist,” because eschatology all seemed like worthless speculation and the Bible was all too...
Articles on Theology
One Simple Idea to Eviscerate Your Kid’s Faith
Make it all about them! Yes, I know this is a blog, and book, about keeping our kids Christian, but what we must warn them against is also important if we are to make that keeping more likely. I recently learned about a Christian women. a famous "mommy blogger," who...
Jesus is never mentioned in Psalms, but best-selling author Tim Keller sees him there
When I saw the title of this piece by Jonathan Merritt who writes for the Religion News Service, I wasn't sure how to take it. Was he implying that Jesus isn't in the Psalms, and that Keller was reading that into the text. After reading the interview, I'm not sure...
D.A. Carson on “The God Who is There”
Don Carson is Research Professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in the Chicago area, an author of numerous books, and just a plain old brilliant guy. I've read several of his books, but recently came across a series of talks by him at...
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