2 Serious Misconceptions about God’s Wrath There may be no theological topic more controversial than divine wrath. While most of humanity is eager to acknowledge the existence of God, and while most love to acknowledge his traits of grace and mercy and kindness, very few want to acknowledge his wrath. Yet wrath is a consistent…
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Five Questions about Sanctification and Good Works: How Does Sanctification Differ from Justification? Over the last few weeks, there have been a number of posts in the Reformed blogosphere related to sanctification and good works. I won’t attempt to survey all the relevant posts, but the main ones include: John Piper’s Foreword to Tom…
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From The Sword & Trowel 2011, issue 2 by Dr Peter Masters Does the Bible teach definitively that the charismatic gifts have ceased? Can cessationism (the view that they have ended) be proved? Some say that the cessationism cannot be conclusively proved from Scripture. We believe, however, that the ceasing of revelatory…
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I haven’t always sat under the teaching ministry of John MacArthur. In fact, earlier parts of my Christian walk have been tarnished by over-exposure to some really bad Bible teachers, and attendance in some very man-centered churches. A lot of my expertise in error comes from first-hand experience. It took longer than I care to…
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5 Ways to Talk to Your Children About Death It wasn’t the first thing to enter my mind, but it might have been the second: How am I going to tell the kids? The doctor had just laid out the cold, hard truth: “Your friend, Ken, has passed.” Ken was a dear family friend, a man…
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Almost every Christian makes some distinction between essentials of the faith and non-essentials. The distinction itself is fairly uncontroversial. But what exactly are the essentials? That’s a bit tougher. There are a number of ways to answer that question. We could look at church history and what God’s people have always believed. We could look…
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