Topic
Life of Jesus
Up and Away: Why It Is Good that Christ Departed
Exploring the reason for Christ's ascension into heaven.
May 9, 2013
Worship Christ the Newborn King
This, this is Christ the King. It's not just imagery and metaphor.
December 21, 2012
Vicarious Humanity: By His Birth We Are Healed
Our redemption, it turns out, began long before Calvary.
April 9, 2012
A Purpose-Driven Cosmos: Why Jesus Doesn't Promise Us an 'Afterlife'
Jesus Christ embodies the meaning of life, the goal of history, and the pattern of the future.
February 27, 2012
The Christmas Epistles: A Most Human Understanding of Godliness
Incarnational grace in the Pastoral Epistles.
December 22, 2011
Why We Need Jesus
Reason and morality cannot show us a good and gracious God. For that, we need the Incarnation.
December 2, 2011
The Problem with Christus Victor
An increasingly popular view of the atonement forces the question: What are we saved from?
April 7, 2011
Rob Bell's Bridge Too Far
The controversial pastor raises crucial questions, but offers answers that may sabotage his goals.
March 14, 2011
Pope Benedict XVI Points Fingers on Who Killed Jesus
Jews bear no collective guilt for crucifixion, he says.
March 2, 2011
The Son and the Crescent
Bible translations that avoid the phrase "Son of God" are bearing dramatic fruit among Muslims. But that translation has some missionaries and scholars dismayed.
February 4, 2011
Christ Is Enough
Why this simple reminder is necessary right now. A review of Phillip Cary's 'Good News for Anxious Christians.'
December 28, 2010
A Cosmic Culmination
Recalling the earth-shaking, kingdom-sized message of Christmas.
December 22, 2010
An Un-Christmas-Like Idea
Four days of Advent readings, excerpted from 'God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas.' By Dietrich Bonhoeffer
December 20, 2010
My Top 5 Books on the Historical Jesus
Picks from Darrell Bock, editor of 'Key Events in the Life of the Historical Jesus.'
December 3, 2010
Jesus vs. Paul
Many biblical scholars have noted that Jesus preached almost exclusively about the kingdom of heaven, while Paul highlighted justification by faith—and not vice versa. What gives?
December 3, 2010
Blessed Are the Unoffended
How can Christians communicate what we believe without being denigrating or inflammatory?
November 18, 2010
A Covenant with the Earth
Why the work of Christ makes all the difference in our care of creation.
October 14, 2010
Holy Incarnation!
It may be impossible not to "demean God" since he mixed it up with sinners.
September 30, 2010
On the Jesus Trail
What we learned from Jews, Muslims, and Arab Christians as we traced the footsteps of Christ in Galilee.
April 28, 2010
Pulling the 'Jesus Boat' from the Mud
Behind the sometimes heart-stopping recovery story.
April 22, 2010
Miracle Boat
The surreal, sometimes comical story behind the discovery of the Jesus Boat.
April 22, 2010
Abandon Studying the Historical Jesus? No, We Need Context
A response to 'The Jesus We'll Never Know.'
April 9, 2010
Abandon Studying the Historical Jesus? No, Jesus Studies Matter
A response to 'The Jesus We'll Never Know.'
April 9, 2010
Abandon Studying the Historical Jesus? No, We Need History
A response to 'The Jesus We'll Never Know.'
April 9, 2010
The Jesus We'll Never Know
Why scholarly attempts to discover the 'real' Jesus have failed. And why that's a good thing.
April 9, 2010
A Crescendo of Wonder
Why Good Friday services are not designed to be funerals for Jesus or exercises in guilt.
March 31, 2010
More Important Than Christmas?
Why pro-life Protestants don't say much about the Annunciation—or the unborn Jesus.
March 25, 2010
The Resurrection Changes Everything
'Raised With Christ' highlights the neglected central event of our faith.
March 22, 2010
There's Power in the Blood
On the heels of the Twilight Saga's success, Christian novelists are tapping the riches of vampire mythology.
February 19, 2010
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