Podcast: Does God Love Satan?

What Happened on the Cross? April 20, 2015

Since the time of Anselm (11th century), and especially since the Reformation in the 16th century, the tendency of the Western church has been to focus almost all of its attention on the anthropological dimension of the atonement, usually to the neglect of the cosmic dimension that is central to the NT. In the standard…

In the Words of Satan April 2, 2014

http://youtu.be/dz2LTIkWIB0 It’s kind of like if Uncle Screwtape wrote a song…

Who Rules Governments? God or Satan? Part 1 September 28, 2017

Running throughout Scripture is the motif that depicts God as the ultimate ruler of the nations. On the other hand, the NT teaches that the ruler of nations is Satan. What do we do with these two apparently conflicting motifs? First, because OT authors tended to understand the creation along the lines of a king-centered…

Cruciform Theology in Four Steps October 10, 2017

The culmination of the biblical narrative of the cross reframes everything about who God is, what it means to have faith in God, and how we read the Bible! The entire Old Testament leading up to the crucified Christ must be interpreted with a view toward discerning how it anticipates and points toward this definitive…

Lighten Up: The Devil Messin’ With Ya February 8, 2013

Spiritual Warfare: What is it? March 24, 2015

The Kingdom is “not of this world,” and neither is its warfare. Jews had always believed that God confronted spiritual opposition in carrying out his will on earth. In the Old Testament, these evil forces were usually depicted as cosmic monsters and hostile waters that threatened the earth. For a variety of reasons this belief…