Because the biblical story unfolds in real places among real people, archaeology helps us understand the world in which God's saving work took place and, in turn, enriches our reading of Scripture.
07/28/26
The Reformers did not return to the sources because they believed the old was better than the new, nor because antiquity possesses authority simply by virtue of its age. They returned to the sources to recover the language and words that were actually written and spoken, especially those by great teachers and, most importantly, God Himself.
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07/21/26
The certainty of faith is utter assurance because it depends upon nothing of your own. It is entirely trusting that God is a propitious, pardoning God—the God who justifies sinners by forgiving them.
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04/18/24
The notion that your goodness is “good enough” to make you right with God is a lie straight from the father of lies himself.
04/17/24
When Jesus appeared again to his disciples on that first Easter evening and again a week later with Thomas and the Emmaus disciples, what did Jesus show them? His hands.
04/15/24
Like the serpent on the pole, God still puts real-life things up for us to look to for salvation.
04/12/24
Bathed in the waters of baptism, you are placed in God's path of totality, a path he won for each and every one of us.
04/08/24
Paul knew that, without the resurrection, the Christian life was a “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video.
04/03/24
Don’t get in the habit (or, if you already do it, get out of the habit) of saying, “I could never talk about these things the way my pastor does.”
03/26/24
This article is written by guest contributor, Christopher J. Richmann.
03/06/24
The opponents of Father Brown thought that debunking the fake resurrection of Father Brown would discredit the good news of Christ's resurrection. The truth, however, is the other way around.
02/26/24
He declared you what you might not always feel you are, but what you were from the moment he knew you, before you were you, when he foreknew you.
02/19/24
There is no AA for legalists. At least not officially. But there ought to be, and it should be called your local church.
02/16/24
We are the fruit that grows from the branch, which extends from the trunk of the tree, which is rooted in the soil that it grows out of, which is all Christ.
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