Amazing Grace
John Owen, the seventeenth-century English Puritan, wrote of an imagined reaction in heaven by the Son of God in response to the fall of Adam and Eve, and what he…
Michael Roberts
Biblical Theology: Definitions and Distinctions
Prior to the Protestant Reformation, theological reflection was generally in the realm of what we would today call systematic theology. As can be seen by its name, the goal is…
Why Church History Always Matters
“Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.” But how does one know such a danger exists unless one already possesses an interest in, and respect for, people…
Worship: Man’s Chief End?
We live in a fast-paced and busy world. It is now no longer true of only the world’s great cities; such is also a characteristic of the unknown towns of…
Why Evangelize?
Introduction Because Christ is Lord of all, there is no one throughout the world who is not obligated to render to Jesus the glory that belongs to him as the…
Apologetics: Basic Approaches
There are three basic approaches or schools of what is called “apologetics.” This word comes directly from the Greek, which has to do with the idea of giving a defense. …
The Fall and Camelot
Try to think about what it must have been like to live before the fall. Of course that is impossible to do because all of our experience has been one…