Category: Article

Article | The Historical Shift from Open to Closed Communion

If the Lord’s Supper was originally open to non-believers, as seems to be suggested in Luke’s Gospel and perhaps in Paul’s letters, then how did it shift to a closed communion by the time of the second century?

April 22, 2024
Article | What Does It Mean to Discern the Body During the Lord’s Supper?

What does Paul mean when he tells the Corinthians that they are to “discern the body” before taking the Lord’s Supper or risk taking it in an “unworthy manner?”

April 18, 2024
Article | Did Jesus Want to Die?

Recently, I have seen several discussions about Jesus’s prayer in the garden of Gethsemane, asking if Jesus was praying not to face the cross or for something else. One explanation I have seen is that Jesus was not praying to avoid the cross but that the Father’s wrath would not be eternal and that the…

March 29, 2024
Article | “He Gets Us” and the Question “Who is Jesus?”

Sunday, during the Super Bowl, there was a commercial produced by the campaign “He Gets Us.” The commercial showed people washing the feet of a woman seeking an abortion, a transgender man/woman, an immigrant, etc. The purpose was to say that Jesus didn’t hate but rather washed feet. This commercial has received praise but seemingly…

February 20, 2024
Article | Why Does God Get Angry?

How should we respond to the anger of God in the Old Testament? We look at the word “anger” in Exodus to provide an interpretive lens.

December 7, 2023
Resurrecting the Resurrection

What is at the center of Christianity? Here’s why it should be the resurrection.

September 14, 2023
The Problem with Penal Substitutionary Atonement

Penal Substitutionary Atonement states that Jesus was punished to satisfy the demands of God’s justice. Does this belief have problems? We talk about a few issues that arise out of this teaching here.

September 7, 2023
The Problem with the Bible’s One Unified Voice

What do we when different Bible writers talk about the same subjects in different ways? We explore that question in this article.

April 24, 2023
The Significance of Christmas

Christmas is a season when Christians and non-Christians alike consider the birth of Jesus. The season should provide, not just a unique opportunity for Christians to teach about the meaning and significance of Jesus, but it should also force Christians to consider the significance of Jesus’ birth. Many Christians tend to jump over Jesus’ birth…

December 21, 2022
Jesus, Eternal God

The television show “Doctor Who” has existed, in some form or fashion, since 1963. The show is based around the character “The Doctor” and his time-travelling Tardis, a blue police box that is curiously much bigger on the inside. With 39 total seasons (and counting), 2 cinema films, and 1 television film, it is easily…

October 25, 2022