Was the Old Testament a waste of time?
In some parts of the country there is a tradition to be called a New Testament church. And while I understand the sentiment that the New Testament is where we most fully see the revelation of Jesus Christ, the fact is without the Old Testament, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John don't make sense. Because...
If Jesus triumphed over sin and death, why do we still experience them?
When we look at the whole Bible, there is a redemptive plan of God from Genesis to Revelation, and it's not immediate and believe it or not, the entire plan of God is not centered around you and not centered around me. So while the cross of Christ has accomplished the defeat of sin and death and Sat...
Jesus doesn't love me the way I am?
When we think about the love of God toward us, we're so tempted to immediately go to our own merits, and if we don't feel we have enough merits to achieve the love of God, which we don't, and that's true, then we have to go to the opposite extreme to say, well, God just loves me just the way I am. W...
Jesus: Filled by God or God Himself?
One of the earliest debates in the Christian Church had to do with the deity of Jesus Christ, and this was a major issue for the Church, and one question that was brought up is the idea of, is Christ a human being who was simply filled by God, or is Jesus Christ fully God? And we would say that that...