Most of us probably have a pretty good handle on the importance of Jesus’ death on the cross for our sins. Without it we would be eternally lost, separated from God, and bearing the just punishment for our sin. But…
Imagine the following conversation 200 years ago on a farm in rural Iowa. A little boy says, “Grandpa, where did the world come from?” His pensive grandfather responds, “Oh, it just popped into existence out of nothing.” Difficult to imagine…
“Hosanna” is a word that literally means “Save us now!” but it had grown into the context of an expression of praise at the time it was used during the Triumphal Entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, just a few days…
What do we do with the passages about genocide in the Bible? There are quite a few of them. We can’t just ignore them. They are difficult passages to say the least with God directly killing people, or ordering His…
It is said that heaven never gets over the cross, thus we shouldn’t either. Throughout the book of Revelation the prevailing name for Jesus is “the Lamb that was slain,” or some equivalent. It is His sacrificial death, the shedding…
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