by Stuart | 15 Aug 2013 | Blog
This past Sunday we spent our Family Bible Hour time in Colossians 3, which Paul opens with an exhortation to set our sights and affections on things above, not on things of the earth. He exhorts us to focus where Christ is. This stands in contrast to the closing...
by Stuart | 7 Aug 2013 | Blog
The story is told that, when Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Last Supper, he searched for thirteen models to portray each character in the painting. One day, he found a young man who exactly portrayed Jesus as he imagined him to be. The young man’s face exuded love,...
by Stuart | 2 Aug 2013 | Blog
“A Kenyan lawyer has filed a petition to overturn the 2,000-year-old trial and crucifixion of Jesus Christ, arguing that the trial was unlawful and demanding that Israel and Italy be held responsible.”1 When I first read these words, I was almost certain it must be a...
by Stuart | 31 Jul 2013 | Blog
One of the hottest topics on the current moral landscape in the West is the issue of homosexuality. Judeo-Christian values have always maintained that homosexuality is a sin against God. This has been challenged for a long time by a pluralistic society, and in recent...
by Stuart | 30 Sep 2012 | Blog
Samuel McComb helps us to understand the significance of the historical reliability of the gospels when he writes, Christianity is a historical religion. By this we mean not merely that it has entered into the history of the world, and that its career can be traced,...
by Stuart | 18 Sep 2012 | Blog
I have taken some time in previous posts to introduce the question of whether there is historical evidence for the existence of Jesus of Nazareth, and to deal with the question of first-century evidence (or the lack thereof) for his life. In short, mention of Jesus...
