Do you think we could sum up the message of the Old Testament in just three words? If so, I think they would be: Jesus is coming! You can see it on almost every page. The patriarchs pondered it. Job longed for a daysman between God and men “…that might lay His hand upon us […]
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The Upper Peninsula of Michigan has a persona of toughness. The mining and logging history of the region have made it the land of austere, hard-bitten men. But the servants of Christ who have been sent there have often been gentlemanly folk. Leonard Sheldrake worked out of Sault Ste. Marie. The bookish Joe Balsam came […]
We must believe, according to certain critics of the Scriptures and the founders of false religions, that men are sufficient unto their own salvation—there is no need for a virgin-born Saviour. Others declare that the virgin birth is a mystery beneath the acceptance of modern minds. There can be no controversy with those of the […]
The Gospel records of the New Testament make abundantly plain that their chief character, Jesus of Nazareth, was a real man, an actual figure of earthly history. This truth is not open to doubt or to serious question. From the standpoint of the ordinary reader who comes to these records with no preconceived ideas—no religious […]
Augustus was sitting on the throne of the Roman empire, and the touch of his finger could set the machinery of government in motion over well-nigh the whole of the civilized world. He was proud of his power and wealth, and it was one of his favorite occupations to compile a register of the populations […]
I do not propose to discuss this question from a biological or a medical standpoint, fascinating beyond description though such a study would be. The times are too stern for trifling with a subject which is one of the essential foundations of Christianity. It is therefore as a Christian physician, a humble follower of Luke, […]
Apollinarianism: named after Apollinarius of Laodicea (b. circa 310 ad) who taught that the human mind leads men into sin; therefore Christ (who could not sin) was not a true man but partook of only part of our nature. Adoptionism: An umbrella term for a number of theories according to which Jesus was a man […]
The question before us is, “Is Jesus God?” I have purposely worded the question that way. If I had asked, “Is Jesus the Son of God,” there are many who would readily say “yes.” But what they are saying is that He is “a son of God in the same way everyone else is.” They […]
What Reason rejects, Faith accepts—when it has the clear declarations of God—and bows in holy wonder at the work of the Trinity in the preparation of a Saviour for the world. Mary as a virgin was a “young, unmarried woman who had preserved the purity of her body,” to use Cruden’s phrase. And not only […]