It’s not necessarily the devil that attacks Christians, but it may be his interns. Maybe we’re not important enough to get the attention of Satan. Satan isn’t present everywhere. He’s not omnipresent.
I think the greatest challenge in the church today is probably no different from any day, and that is that if we really believe in God and His sovereignty we’ll learn to pray together. One of the ...
The beatific vision is the fulfillment of Jesus’ promise that we will see God. That is the essence of it. Then, we have to ask, “What does Jesus mean by seeing God?” We have to say that it is not a ...
The psalmist says, “God dwells in light inaccessible.” We can use any word. I remember talking to R.C. about this and he said, “You know, the word I used was ‘holiness,’ but there are a lot of words ...
Dr. Lou Priolo (1954–2023) was the biblical counseling director at Christ Covenant Church in Atlanta. He is author of numerous books, including Presuppositions of Biblical Counseling, Loneliness: ...
SPROUL: In Acts 17, Paul at the Areopagus quotes some of the pagan poets and talks about people groping after God. They have the statue to the unknown god, and in one sense they’re seeking Him. In the ...
THOMAS: To immediately apply our current eschatological categories to the Reformers would be anachronistic. Some of the definitions—postmillennial, premillennial, amillennial—belong after the ...
Historically and theologically, we distinguish among three types of divine love. There is God’s love of benevolence, where God has a kind spirit to the whole world. His benevolent will and love fall ...
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Jesus is speaking about a combination. Often when He makes statements like this, the first thing to do is not to work out from serpents and doves, but rather to think of them in terms of Jesus. In ...
Simply put, covenant theology is the basic understanding of the whole Bible story and a description of the way in which God relates to His creation and humanity. For example, when Paul describes the ...