Shadow or substance? Messianic Judaism, like all movements, is diverse. But it has two major problematic characteristics that are common throughout the movement. The first is the “recovery” of the Name of God that supposedly leads to proper worship by removing an alleged pagan linguistic influence. Secondly, there is a desire to return to the […]
Christ meets both the requirements of God and the needs of man. I find it remarkable that, although 1 John was one of the last epistles to be written, John had not lost his sense of awe and wonder at the truth he records in the opening verse. John was now an old man. It […]
The Lord Jesus has priority in time, in dignity, and in power. The term firstborn is used three times of the Lord Jesus Christ in relation to others: the Firstborn of every creature (Col. 1:15); the Firstborn from the dead (Col. 1:18); the Firstborn among many brethren (Rom. 8:29). An excellent definition of firstborn is […]
Is belief in beneficial mutations scientific? For years, engineers who designed Mercedes-Benz cars refused to offer electric windows as an option to standard hand crank windows. In characteristic German fashion, they argued that the simple structure of the hand crank mechanism functioned perfectly for the task, had few parts, and almost never needed service. By […]
All positions have been filled. I recently started a new job, the position having been made vacant by the resignation of my predecessor. On my first day of work, the first place my new employer showed me was the barren office with the empty seat that I would now call my own. Regardless of the […]
Man’s need and God’s desire Ever since Adam’s sin alienated mankind from God, man has needed a mediator: someone who could bridge the gap between man and God. Conscious of his own inability to accomplish this, Job longed, “For He is not a man as I am that I may answer Him, That we may […]
“That where I am, there you may be also.” “In order to realize the worth of the anchor, we need to feel the stress of the storm.”1 Christ is the anchor of our souls because He is our forerunner. And we are indeed in a storm! However, even in the storms of life we can […]
We must not only speak the truth; we must communicate it. I am not only responsible for what I say. I am also responsible—to some degree—for what people think I said. We note this in the preaching of the Lord Jesus and in the writings of Paul. They would often frame the questions they knew […]
They might be giants. The one event that shaped the world more than any other during the last century was World War II. Conservative estimates place the number killed during the conflict as well north of 55,000,000.1 In Europe, the war officially began in September of 1939 with Germany’s invasion of Poland. Over the succeeding […]