Devotions
A Reverse Advent: Resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:1–11)
The December 2017 edition of National Geographic included a Kristin Romey article titled, “What Archaeology is Telling Us about the Real Jesus.” Touring the Holy Land, and walking the roads the Gospels claim Jesus walked, she sought to sift historical fact from...
A Reverse Advent: Ascension (Daniel 7:13–14)
As we count down the days till Christmas, we are continue to consider some of the physical “comings” of the Lord recorded in Scripture, moving backwards from his future, bodily return to his first coming as a babe in the manger. The second “coming” we want to consider...
A Reverse Advent: Return (1 Corinthians 15)
Christianity has historically taught that Jesus will come back bodily to earth at some unknown point in our future, when he will resurrect the dead and usher all humanity into a final judgement. For all the debate that surrounds eschatology (the doctrine of last...
Golf Swing Christianity (Daniel 12:1–12)
At the height of its popularity, Publishers Weekly reviewer, Lynn Garrett, wrote of Bruce Wilkinson’s The Prayer of Jabez, “It’s very evangelical and very American, this whole notion that if you know the right technique, the right form, that prayer will be efficient...
Take Action (Daniel 11:1–45)
In the early 1970s, the editor of the now-defunct Evangelical Magazine asked J. I. Packer for a series of articles discussing the nature and character of God. Packer produced a new article every two months. At the end of the series, an editor offered to combine the...
Reality and Reason (Daniel 10:1–21)
Daniel 10–12 essentially record a single prophecy, but the chapter divisions are deliberate and we will consider each chapter on its own. The prophecy in these chapters is by far the most detailed in the entire book, with such minute detail that sceptics conclude that...