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Doctrine is to the spiritual world what wisdom is to the visible world.
God hardwired the world we live in to work in particular ways.  This means that there are certain observable realities that can be ignored at your own risk. If you don’t work hard to tend your garden, God’s design [...]

The ESV Bible Blog has helpfully integrated the events of the Passion Week with Google Map. Now you can see not only when various events occurred, you can also see where they occurred.
There are 89 total chapters in the four canonical Gospels (Matthew, 28; Mark, 16; Luke, 24; John, 21). Do you know how many [...]

In his article, “The Biblical Gospel,” D. A. Carson integrates the Gospel into the over-arching trajectory of the Bible’s plot line. (Note how he also identifies God’s love as being at the center of His glorious Being.) This summary clarified my thinking and stirred my heart.
Thus the gospel is integrally tied to the Bible’s story-line. [...]

After a month-long break to the concession stand, I’m actually trying to get settled back into the cheap seats.
Actually, the last month has been extraordinarily busy for us. We’ve been out of the bleachers and onto the athletic field, as it were. Jon has been getting ready for an extended mission trip, which includes teaching [...]

After reflecting upon Stott’s chapter on “salvation,” I’ll venture a few observations.
1. While I agree with Stott’s critique of the physical, psychological, and liberation views on salvation, I question one of the planks in his argument. Stott attacks the view common among liberation theologians that the exodus of the Hebrews from the oppression of Egypt [...]

In his chapter on the topic of “salvation,” John Stott began by evaluating three less-than-fully-biblical views of salvation: salvation as physical health, as psychological wholeness, and socio-political liberation.
The last two sections of the chapter deal with how liberation theology approaches the Scriptures (“the hermeneutical question”) and what the Bible actually teaches about salvation and liberation.
What’s [...]