Theology

Outreach Resources of the Year: Theology

So many gospel presentations and simple summaries present the gospel as escape from sin and the world and entrance into eternal life. Such gospels skip life now and head for the eternal prize.

A Prophet Is Not a Predictor of the Future

The prophets claim more, and the people credited them with more than just astute human discernment.

The Transcript of Our Desires

If one’s internet searches illuminate our hidden desires, then the Bible serves (in the words of Catherine Dunlap Carter) as a kind of “incomparable record of human desire.”

Introduction to the Biblical Metanarrative

The story that the Bible tells, therefore, is the story that we are all part of whether we know it or not and whether we like it or not. We have joined the story in progress, along the way, so to speak.

What We Can Learn From Job

Excerpted From 'Wrestling With Job' (IVP Academic)

Bill Kynes and Will Kynes: Wrestling With Job

“Will your faith in God’s goodness endure when it is tested?”

Yudha Thianto: An Explorer’s Guide to John Calvin

“By presenting Calvin in his historical, cultural, political, and theological contexts, I have meant to help you see him for who he was in his own time.”

Calvin’s Lasting Impact in the Global Church

Excerpted from 'An Explorer's Guide to John Calvin' by Yudha Thianto

Saving Faith Receives Christ Himself

Receiving Jesus is saving because “as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself” (John 5:26).

3 Things God Will Never Do With Your Sin

Why does God not deal with us according to our sins? Why does he not repay us according to our iniquities?

Trinitarian Heresies

In relation to the Trinity, heretics have usually failed to maintain – or have overemphasized – one of three vital planks.