How green is God?
"... whose delight is in the law of the LORD, and who meditates on his law day and night." Psalm 1.2 What exactly is the relationship...
Reason or revelation?
"Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed." John 20.29 Cynics dismiss...
Deus ex machina (google it!)
"You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives." Genesis 50.20...
Is history really what it claims to be?
"... he appeared to Cephas, and then to the Twelve. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the...
Will your anchor hold?
"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace." John 16.33 Christians make a big deal of ours being an historical...
Learning to read
"... seek and you will find..." Matthew 7.7 It is a feature of literary criticism that readers find more and different meanings in what...
Making sense of it all
"I am the way and the truth and the life..." John 14.6 Cutting to the chase, how does one interpret a sacred text like the Bible? "In the...
Wholly Holy?
"All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness... 2 Timothy 3.16 David...
Forward or back?
"... contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God's holy people." Jude 1.3 When faith meets culture doctrine is the...
Chicken and egg
"You are the salt of the earth... You are the light of the world..." Matthew 5. 13-14 Is it faith that influences culture or does culture...