First, note that Paul views the creation account as history, as non-fiction; he accepts its historicity outright. Second, he determines the appropriate protocols for corporate worship, a contemporary morality, if you will, from that ancient historical account.
It is a bit of a stretch to call John Boys (1571-1625) a Puritan. He was an Anglican cleric who was Dean of Canterbury Cathedral and a translator of the Authorized (King James) Version of the Bible of 1611. He was certainly evangelical in his sympathies and was held in high esteem by his contemporaries.
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Jesus shows us how to respond when sorrow presses heavily upon the soul. His experience in Gethsemane provides a pattern of faithful endurance that remains profoundly relevant for believers today.
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The 19th Annual Council on Dispensational Hermeneutics will be held at The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry headquarters in Westville, N.J., on Wednesday and Thursday, September 16 and 17.
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Three questions deserve careful consideration: Is depression always sinful? What causes depression? How should Christians respond?
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John pauses his story before the seventh “seal” judgment to show us two groups of people—what they have seen, felt, and experienced up to this point.
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Paul transitions from the families’ responsibility to care for widows to the church’s responsibility. He begins with the command to enroll true widows, further clarifying who those widows are.
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This forward movement in scriptural narrative is twinned with an inherent purpose or teleology. Neither the eschatology nor the teleology in Scripture must ever be separated from our reading of the Bible as biblical theology.
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Paul notably includes Creation theology in two of his sermons, both addressed to practicing pagans. The first is in the city of Lystra, in modern Turkey, on his first missionary journey.
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