Feb 19, 2021 | Christian Living, Theology
Followers of Christ are a people looking forward to a coming day of salvation. We commonly think of salvation as an accomplished act of God brought about by the things that happened in connection with Jesus, particularly his death and resurrection. References to these...
Apr 3, 2017 | Christian Living, HBU Faith & College Series, The Bible
The Christian worldview starts with the one true and living God, who is good and purposeful, who keeps His word, and who is the creator of all things: The God of Scripture. As soon as we invoke the notion of Scripture, we are beginning to talk about the big story of...
Nov 4, 2015 | Christian Living, Psalms
I learned my first Latin paradigms years ago with a nonsense phrase: OSTMUSTISNT. I put the words endings I needed to remember together in a made-up word. Whenever I need to remember those endings, I simply recall this nonsense word. Students have always used mnemonic...
Jul 15, 2015 | Christian Living, Psalms
Psalm 110 presents us with a mystery in its very first verse: The Lord says to my Lord: Sit at My right hand… (Psalm 110:1) There are three characters in this Psalm, apart from the congregation that hears and repeats it. There’s the Psalmist, the LORD God, and an...
Jun 10, 2015 | Christian Living, The Bible
In Acts 2 on the Day of the Pentecost, the Holy Spirit descended upon the people gathered in Jerusalem, and the miracle of languages took place. The Bible says the people were amazed: And they all continued in amazement and great perplexity, saying to one another,...
