Posted in Christian living, Christianity, Jesus, Love, Reformed, Religion, Theology, tagged Christian living, Christianity, Jesus, Love, Reformed, Religion, Theology on August 16, 2017| 8 Comments »
Note: This is a scheduled post. By the time you read this online I am away and might not have internet access where I’m at. Feel free to share your comments though I would be delayed in responding.
A short devotional with two quick questions.
First what part of us as a human person is involved with loving God?
Posted in Christianity, God, godly sorrow, Gospel, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Reformed, repentance, sorrow, Theology, tagged Christianity, God, godly sorrow, Gospel, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Reformed, repentance, sorrow, Theology on August 9, 2017| 24 Comments »
As a Christian this might be an important question to think about: What is the difference between remorse and repentance?
Both repentance and remorse is associated with the emotions of sorrow. But there are differences between the two. So what are those differences?
Posted in Christianity, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Reformed, Theology, Trinity, tagged Apologetics, Christianity, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Theology on August 2, 2017| 9 Comments »
If you are a Christian for a significant amount of time you would have no doubt ran into people who called themselves Christians but denied the essential doctrine of Christ being God and also the doctrine of the Trinity. No doubt they will throw out verses and argument to say that Jesus was not God. Is there a witty ditty one can have that helps us remember the principle of how to respond to such doctrinal attack on the person and work of Christ?
Posted in Book Review, Children's book, Christianity, Gospel, Reformed, The Gospel Story Book, Theology, tagged Bible, book review, Children's book, Christianity, Gospel, Jesus, The Gospel Story Book on July 17, 2017| 8 Comments »
In several different occasions online I have seen the question asked about recommended Christian children’s book. This is one that I do highly recommend.
Marty Machowski. The Gospel Story Bible: Discovering Jesus in the Old and New Testaments. Greensboro, NC: New Growth Press, November 1st 2011. 328 pp.
Purchase: Westminster | Amazon
Several people have told me they thought this was one of the best Bible story book for kids. There are many Children’s Bible and Children’s Bible story books out there so I was skeptical when I first heard it until I discovered that the author told Old and New Testament stories in such a way as to point the readers back to Jesus and the Gospel. I thought that was what made this book unique among children’s book out there.
Posted in Christianity, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Pilate, Reformed, Theology, tagged Apologetics, Christianity, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Pilate, Reformed, Theology on June 29, 2017| 12 Comments »
Two months ago I wrote “Problems with Reza Aslan’s Rejection of Jesus Before Pilate Part 1.” This is the second installment.
Reza Aslan has gotten into more controversies since my last post. He’s managed to get himself kicked out of CNN. And that reminded me to work on part 2 of this series.
Aslan’s most popular book is Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth.
Reza Aslan questions the historicity of Jesus being before Pilate as the Gospels presented it. On page 148 of the book he writes:
Either the threat posed by Jesus to the stability of Jerusalem is so great that he is one of only a handful of Jews to have the opportunity to stand before Pilate and answer for his alleged crimes, or else the so-called trial before Pilate is a fabrication. There is reason to suspect that latter. (148)
We are examining his “reason” to question the Gospels’ accounts of Jesus appearing before Pilate. In part 1 I pointed out the problem with Aslan’s academic credentials and also refuted Aslan’s argument based upon Aslan’s assertion that Pilate was one who was not for trials. Here in this post I want to look at another of Aslan’s “reason.”
Posted in Bible, Bible contradiction, bible difficulties, bible interpretation, christian apologetics, Christianity, Reformed, Theology, tagged Apologetics, Bible, Bible contradiction, bible difficulties, Christianity, Jesus, Jesus Christ on June 23, 2017| 8 Comments »
For today’s post will tackle the question the Skeptic Annotated Bible asked: Who carried Jesus’s cross?
Here are the two answers which the skeptic believes shows a Bible contradiction:
“They took Jesus, therefore, and He went out, [a]bearing His own cross, to the place called the Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha.” (John 19:17)
“As they were coming out, they found a man of Cyrene named Simon, whom they pressed into service to bear His cross.” (Matthew 27:32)
“ They *pressed into service a passer-by coming from the country, Simon of Cyrene (the father of Alexander and Rufus), to bear His cross.” (Mark 15:21)
When they led Him away, they seized a man, Simon of Cyrene, coming in from the country, and placed on him the cross to carry behind Jesus.” (Luke 23:26)
(All Scriptural quotation comes from the New American Standard Bible)
Here’s a closer look at whether or not there is a contradiction:
Posted in Christianity, Gospel, Reformed, Theology, tagged Christianity, Gospel, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Russian, Savior on June 13, 2017| 8 Comments »
I’m posting this for evangelistic purposes.
One of the things I want to post more this year is biblically solid Gospel presentation.
Here it is in Russian for 3 minutes.
