Primary or Secondary Importance?: Some Cautions
Not every doctrinal issue is a matter of heresy versus orthodoxy. In today’s internet fueled climate this first sentence is worth repeating to ourselves. As young growing Christians many of…
Tim Bertolet
The One Who Endures: The Parable of the Soils
The Bible is very clear that those who make genuine professions of faith will continue in those confessions of faith. The genuine believer will bear fruit as a consequence of…
The Apostles’ Creed: In Jesus Christ
“I believe…in Jesus Christ, his [God’s] only Son, our Lord” So every believer confesses and so it is found in the Apostles’ Creed. Let’s unpack four things that we find…
Surveying Sanctification: A Grammar Lesson
When we consider the Biblical doctrine of sanctification, it is important to recognize how the doctrine is often portrayed in Scripture. It is organized first around who we are and…
The Spirit’s Role: The Life of Jesus
Most of the time when we think of the earthly life of Jesus, we think of how he demonstrated his power and manifest that he was the Son of God.…
Being a Pentecost Christian: Revival!
Generally speaking, to revive something is to bring it back to health or strength. Something is in some weak state and when it is revived it regains new health and…
Braving Hard Passages: Baptism for the Dead
I have always taken comfort from the fact that if Peter could find some of Paul’s saying as hard (2 Peter 3:15-16), so can I. One hard saying in the…
Eternal Generation: An Introduction
Basic Biblical Trinitarianism teaches that God is one being with one divine essence but three eternal persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Each of the three persons…
From ABC to PhD: The Holy Trinity
As we think about the Trinity and seek to grow in our understanding of this Biblical doctrine, it is always helpful to use resources of others who have spent more…
Why Study Theology: How Systematic Theology Helps
What comes to mind when you hear the words “systematic theology”? For many Christians, they think of the halls of academia and the debating of obscure and minor details related…
Teach Me To Pray!: Forgive Us Our Debts
In this series, we are examining how the Lord’s prayer shapes our prayer life. In this post, we want to apply the phrase “…Forgive us our debts as we forgive…
Prayer: Evangelism & Prayer
One of the most important things we need to pray for is our evangelistic efforts. When we fail to pray for our evangelism efforts we could be in danger of…