The Trinity is not an extraneous Christian doctrine – redemption only works if the Father, who eternally loves his own Son, chooses to adopt us as his children. But he doesn't make us his "extra" children, he unites us to Jesus so that we become just...
The question, why does God allow me to suffer, has many possible biblical answers. The overwhelming answer in Paul's second letter to the Corinthians is that our brokenness and weakness makes us rely on the sufficiency of God's grace in Jesus, allows the...
Have you ever felt consumed by the challenges of life, or that the odds were stacked against you? You are not alone. However,in the middle of a book of the Bible in which the writer laments the hardship of crushing challenges and the weight of God's just judgment,...
When Jesus tells his disciples to take him in a boat across the Sea of Galilee, and when a massive storm blows up that threatens to sink them, and when Jesus falls asleep in the back of the boat and doesn't wake up, his disciples ask if he doesn't care that...
Paul's relationship with the Corinthian church had been tense – his apostolic authority had been challenged and denied – but Paul did not give up hope in either his ministry or in their faith: since Jesus died and rose from the dead all those who...
Jesus' family thought he was crazy and his opponents accused him of being demon-possessed, but Jesus' true followers recognized the inherent logic in his claims, bowed to the divine nature of his power, and found in him their true family and community....
