Theology

Food for Thought

Shepherding the church has been and always will be theological at root.

Back to School: Why Theological Education Matters to the Church

Evangelism is the church’s speech to the outside world, but worship is where it learns its grammar.

Outreach in the Story of the Triune God

Theology is faith thinking coherently about the big biblical picture and our place in it.

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.