I’m a very task-oriented person and I resonate with being told what to “do” in order to “get busy” serving Jesus. I didn’t have that great of a grasp on who I was in Christ. In seminary, one of my professors heavily emphasized “being before doing” and that has stuck...

Knowing the world behind, in, and around the New Testament enables us – in movie terms – to see things in digital, colour, three dimensional precision. It adds clarity, depth, realism, and clarity. You just understand the New Testament better and are less prone to weird anchronisms...

...even when sexual intercourse seems fulfilling to each partner, both are sometimes left with a thirst for more. If not physical fulfillment, then more emotional and spiritual union with each other.

Vos would emphasize the Old Testament is a book of redemption that bears an organic connection to the salvation that has come in Jesus Christ. There is no separation between the Old Testament work of God and the work of Jesus. The two constitute a single body of supernatural revelation...

What would have happened if Adam and Eve never ate from The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden? It’s a hypothetical question since they did eat, but the parallel with the last Adam, Jesus Christ, shows that obedience would ultimately have led to...

I want to focus on your recent book “Seeing God”, which is a study of the so-called “beatific vision” in Christian theology. Could you just start by giving a brief explanation of the concept of the beatific vision for a layperson unfamiliar with the term? The beatific vision is the...

The power that spoke light into darkness and water to wine also breaks the hardest hearts and progressively turns people into the image of Christ as the same God speaks through the gospel.

Christians are the ones who confess their belief in the Holy Trinity. In practice, however, we seldom hear sermons, rarely discuss or rely on the power of the Holy Spirit in everyday life. Hence, the Trinity plays only a nominal role for some believers, who in reality become mere monotheists...

The “good life” is a puff of vapor, for we live in a world of sin and misery and are rushing toward eternity. If you were on an airplane flying to another country where you would spend the rest of your life, which should your mind focus on: the snacks...

The Gospel is the good news that God in his grace saves the lost through the work of his Son Jesus Christ and restores us to fellowship with God. This is the treasure, the pearl of great price, that is true and valuable even if it had no consequences for...