At first, I wasn’t a big fan of Wesley’s interpretation of Acts 13:48, but lately I have come to admire it’s simplicity. Wesley doesn’t get into technical debates about passive vs. middle voice, disputes about translating tasso as ordain vs....
Total Depravity teaches that every single human being has been affected by the fall in a most negative sense. Every part of a person’s metaphysical (to say nothing of physical) composition has been affected by the fall; hence, total depravity. This has never...
The following is a five-part review (in one post) of chapters from Whosoever Will: A Biblical-Theological Critique of Five-Point Calvinism, edited by David L. Allen and Steve W. Lemke, published by B&H Academic (order from B&H here). This first section will...
Recently I went to the local Christian bookstore to browse and the lady working there tried to get me to buy a book, Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back. Now I can’t make a judgment about the book...
The first book Jay ever wrote was not about counseling, but about eschatology! Happily, it has been updated and republished by Timeless Texts. “..The Lord, the God of the Spirits of the prophets, sent his angel to show unto his servants the things which must...
Known as the “Golden Mouth” for the eloquence of his sermons, Chrysostom was born in Antioch and raised by his mother, who at twenty had become a widow. He became a monk and later was appointed deacon (381) and priest (386) in Antioch. His reputation as a...
