Heads Up

God has many purposes in human suffering. There at least four: The first purpose of God in suffering is what Paul presents in Romans 5, namely, that God uses our troubles, trials, and tribulations to form Christian character. In the Great Depression a man lost a job, a fortune, a wife, and a home. He…

“But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain. Moreover we are even found to be false witnesses of God, because we witnessed against God that He raised Christ, whom He did…

What is it that people are seeking most in life once their basic physical needs are satisfied? Some say they are seeking “freedom.” Movements for national liberation are usually based on this intense human desire. But Americans are free. Yet most of us are as restless and discontented (perhaps even more so) as those living…

“Now when the Sabbath was past, [on] the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, that they might come and anoint Him.

Every generation struggles with devising a thoroughly biblical definition of the Church. Previous generations defined the Church through ecclesiastical hierarchies. Others shaped their characterization of the Church around her distinct separateness from the world.

On the day of his Moscow arrest- February 12th, 1974 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn published what would be his final message to the Russian people before the government exiled him to the West. In the title of the exhortation, he urged the Russian people to “live not by lies!” What did it mean to live by…