Posts Tagged ‘Christology’
Incarnation and Inculturation
The incarnation of Jesus Christ is a fundamental of the gospel. Essential to our salvation is the teaching that the Second Person of the Godhead laid aside his visible divine glory and added to his eternal person a complete human nature. From the annunciation onward God fully entered into the human experience, passing through gestation,…
Read MoreThe Nightmare before Christmas
At this time of year, it’s easy to gloss over the events surrounding the first Christmas. If we aren’t careful, we will overlook some of the personal distress of people like Joseph and Mary. With that in mind, I would like to offer you The Nightmare before Christmas by Gordon Dickson Nightmare before Christmas! for…
Read MoreGod Made Visible (4)
George Stiekes Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. (I Timothy 1:17) The Spirit of God reveals a four-fold description of our God that every believer ought to understand and cherish if he is to truly know God and experience an intimate relationship…
Read MoreGod With Us
Bob Jones Faith for the Family — December 1980 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call His name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. — Matthew 1:23 The existence of God is a self-evident fact, one has only to look about him at…
Read MoreThe Necessity of the Virgin Birth
Don Johnson The doctrine of the virgin birth of our Lord Jesus Christ is one of those battleground points of theology over which many heated words have been exchanged. In this paper, I want to outline briefly reasons why belief in the virgin birth is necessary based on evidence and theology.
Read MoreGod Made Visible (3)
George Stiekes Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. (I Timothy 1:17) The Spirit of God reveals a four-fold description of our God that every believer ought to understand and cherish if he is to truly know God and experience an intimate relationship…
Read MoreGod Made Visible (2)
George Stiekes Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. (I Timothy 1:17) The Spirit of God reveals a four-fold description of our God that every believer ought to understand and cherish if he is to truly know God and experience an intimate relationship…
Read MoreThe Seeking Shepherd
Charles Melring FrontLine • November/December 2006 10 What man of you. having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing.…
Read MoreThe Good Shepherd is the Forgiver of My Sin
Sandy Hartman Be a Forgetful Forgiver Forgetfulness is rarely a quality that people are proud to possess. Frequently, forgetfulness is associated with the onset of Alzheimer’s or the beginning of senility. In other scenarios people ascribe it to a lack of character or low intelligence (and to the person doing the forgetting, it can certainly…
Read MoreThe Good Shepherd is the Creator of the Heavens
Stephen Caesar How Old Are the Stars? One of the strongest weapons in the arsenal of skeptics who reject young-universe Creationism has been the alleged great antiquity of the stars. As scientists currently date them, stars appear to be far older than would allow for a Biblical age of the universe. However, new, refined, technologically…
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