Shepherding Troubled Souls
Troubled Souls Part of a pastor’s job is “pastoral care”—shepherding troubled souls that are dealing with the effects of sin and suffering. Life has amazing joys, but also a lot […]
The Problem of Love
Love Your Neighbor as Yourself I have been studying these verses recently and thinking about the command to love one another and how that can actually happen. Romans 13:9—The commandments, […]
God Condescends
A Miracle In John 6, Jesus performs a miracle of multiplying loaves of bread and fish to feed over 5,000 people. This passage has been used to make the point […]
Charles Spurgeon: Scripture Is a Lion to be Unleashed
“Defend the Bible? Would you defend a lion? Loose him; and let him go!” When he spoke of Scripture, Charles Haddon Spurgeon consistently returned to two closely related themes. First, […]
Jonathan Edwards: Scripture Points to the Glory of God in Jesus Christ
“It seems to me that God would have our whole dependence be upon the Scriptures, because the greater our dependence is on the Word of God, the more direct and […]
John Calvin Says Scripture Is God’s Self-Disclosure
Interpretation Matters John Calvin was not only concerned about the authority of Scripture, but also with true interpretation of Scripture and its proper use in the church. To be sure, […]
Aquinas Says Scripture Foreshadows Christ
Aquinas and the Literal Sense of Scripture Although often overlooked by Protestants because of his place as the theologian of the Roman Catholic Church, Thomas Aquinas has much to teach […]
Martin Luther Says Scripture Is All About Christ
The Certainty of Scripture Caught up in the heat of controversy, Martin Luther reached the revolutionary conclusion that when the conflicting pronouncements of popes and councils threaten to leave the […]
The Purpose of Scripture Is to See Christ—Augustine
God-Inspired Through Human Beings For Augustine, the words of Scripture have a divine authority, integrally linked with the authority of the eternal Word of God. God has revealed himself to […]
What Is Scripture? Theological Giants Weigh In
What is Scripture? The good news is that we are not the first to try to answer this question. In fact, 2,000 years of Christian history provide us a tradition […]