Last week, we were introduced to 1 Cor 15:20–28. This week, we will study the first few verses of this passage and explore the solidary of believers with Christ in his resurrection. Looking, then, at the beginning of our passage, we see first of all that Paul teaches that Christ was raised from the dead,…

John MacArthur entered heaven on Monday at the age of 86. It’s difficult to know exactly what to say about him, as members of our fellowship hold widely differing views regarding him. In many aspects of his ministry, MacArthur was a fundamentalist—though he resisted that label. A fifth-generation preacher, his family’s gospel ministry traces back…

Perhaps the most significant event during the “Middle Ages” was the Great Schism that divided the Church into the Western Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church in 1054. After that time period the Roman Catholic Church continued to gain incredible political power, but also continued to develop its problematic doctrines and practices, such…

Have you ever made a purchase you later regretted? Not just an overpriced meal or a car that wasn’t worth the deal, but one of those “too good to be true” items — something promising to build muscle, lose weight, or bring a long-lost shine back to your car.  Products like ShamWow, the Gazelle, or…

We plan our worship services several months in advance. We choose themes for each service and discuss how to introduce them. Last Sunday, our chosen theme was “Our Good God.” In the canon of worship themes we use, the goodness of God is not as difficult to explain as something like transcendence or immanence. But…

We are talking to our authors for the Frontline edition on the theme, “The Christian School Revival.” For today’s podcast, I’m talking again to the associate editor for this edition, Ken Rathbun. This podcast discusses Ken’s second article in the magazine, “Why We Need More Christian School Teachers for Christian Schools.” There is a great…

Why does God do what He does at any time and in any situation? While we might wish we had access to His unsearchable judgments and inscrutable ways in order to answer this question, we are at least privy to know from Scripture that God seeks in all things to bring glory to Himself. We…

I used to find the Psalms discouraging. Not because the Psalms themselves were depressing, in fact, quite the opposite! The Psalms are filled with accounts of people who faced unbelievable challenges, and through patient faith in God found themselves vindicated against those who stood against them. In the Psalms we read accounts of people at…

In the early centuries of the Christian church, there were important events that helped to articulate orthodox biblical truth. The Apostles’ Creed may or may not have been the earliest chronologically, but it was significant for its understanding of trinitarian doctrine. The Councils of Nicaea in 325 and Constantinople in 381 helped to further articulate…