Too Good Not to Share

This helpful post on rules of grammar from Iain D. Campbell at the Reformation 21 blog is worth a read.

some basic rule’s of grammar to which we would all Do well to adhere, to:

26 Golden Rules for Writing Well

1.Don’t abbrev.
2.Check to see if you any words out.
3.Be carefully to use adjectives and adverbs [...]

Discipleship According to Jesus

The last couple of years Jesus’ words in Luke 14:26-33 have been rattling around in my head, wreaking havoc on my preconceived views of discipleship, the Christian life, and following Jesus.

In this passage Jesus says that unless:

I hate my family and myself,
take up my cross and come after him (on the road [...]

Photos from Haiti

Moving photos from the devastation in Haiti.

Maranatha!

HT: [...]

Human Reconciliation Begins with the Gospel

Or to put it another way, horizontal reconciliation begins with vertical reconciliation.  I enjoyed Michael Oh’s testimony at Urbana last week.  He shared what the gospel has taught him about loving those he’s expected [...]

1 Thessalonians 4-5 vis-à-vis Matthew 24 and the Timing of the Rapture

A while back I came across a helpful chart (p. 137) in Greg Beale’s commentary on 1-2 Thessalonians comparing Paul’s presentation of Jesus’ return in 1 Thess 4-5 and Jesus’ own presentation of the same event in Matthew 24.  Both pretribbers and non-pretribbers have pointed out the similarities, but seeing it in chart form is especially [...]

I Will Inherit the Land (Part 2)

In my last post I argued that although Israel does not currently possess a divine right to Palestine, they will someday inherit the land promises that God made to Abraham.

This will ultimately happen someday in the future, when, to use Paul’s words in Romans 11, national Israel turns in faith to the Messiah and is once [...]