Mind your language!

Mind your language!

I recently listened to an interview of a woman who had for a long time run a popular Christian website and podcast, but who has since left the theological realm for politics. She has not left the faith, but simply moved from religious to political cultural engagement....
Four views on hell: Everlasting conscious torment

Four views on hell: Everlasting conscious torment

Series introduction: I recently had opportunity to read the second edition of Zondervan’s Four Views on Hell. This series of posts will form my personal evaluation of each of the arguments presented in the book. I, like probably most Christians, was raised in a church...
Four views on hell: Terminal punishment

Four views on hell: Terminal punishment

Series introduction: I recently had opportunity to read the second edition of Zondervan’s Four Views on Hell. This series of posts will form my personal evaluation of each of the arguments presented in the book. Back in 2011, when I read the first edition of Four...
A pattern for Christian discipleship

A pattern for Christian discipleship

For the last three months or so, while our pastor-teacher has been on sabbatical, the other elders of our church have been taking on Sunday mornings us through a journey of the book of Philippians. Unlike many other of Paul’s letters, Philippians does not deal...
Four views on hell: A universalist view

Four views on hell: A universalist view

Series introduction: I recently had opportunity to read the second edition of Zondervan’s Four Views on Hell. This series of posts will form my personal evaluation of each of the arguments presented in the book. It is probably fair to say that the doctrine of...
Four views on hell: Hell and purgatory

Four views on hell: Hell and purgatory

Series introduction: I recently had opportunity to read the second edition of Zondervan’s Four Views on Hell. This series of posts will form my personal evaluation of each of the arguments presented in the book. Ever since the Reformation, evangelicals (Protestants)...