This popular worn-out cliché has been echoed in many sermons, monologues, YouTube videos, Instagram reels, and the like. Those who usually vocalize this claim tend either to have no formal theological training, have never entered seminary, and consider it the end of a devotional life. The term, cemetery, gets its wording from the spiritually dead…
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Should Christians Believe In Santa Claus?
You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout I’m telling you why…Santa Claus is NOT coming to town! This time of year, is filled with joy and giving, trees and caroling, eggnog and mistletoe but should Christians believe in a jolly old man who lives out his days in one of…
4 Ways Young Adults Should Influence Gen Z’s
Leadership is Influence and not just authority! This quote taken from Ken Blanchard is precisely what is required for today’s young adults who have become the new mentors, spiritual leaders, big brothers and sisters to an upcoming generation that has become dominated by cancellation rather than articulation. Generation Z falls into an era of being…
Jesus, the Prince of Demons?
An interpreative work on Matthew 12:22-37 The drama of what I consider as the Beelzebul controversy unfolds in this narrative of Matthew that has dealt with Jesus’ public ministry which has sparked outrage with the Jewish religious leaders. This contesting from the miraculous works has caused tension and accusation towards the messiah of using demonic…
An Exegetical look into Galatians 5:16-25
The book of Galatians provides the reader with a landscape of Pauline theology that guides the discussion of living according to the way of the Spirit. The Gospel is the central theme that surrounds much of what the apostle is explaining in addressing the social and even racial divisions that have developed in the church…
The Pistis Christou Debate
The Pistis Christou debate has been a problematic phrase uttered in Pauline literature among scholars and continues to be the subject of immersing new interpretations. The two main exegetical arguments center on the genitive use of the phrase found in the third chapter of Romans and other epistles (Gal.2:16.20,3:22; Eph.3:12; Phil.3:9). The objective (anthropological) or faith in Christ’s…
A Interpretative Review of Romans 3:21-31
Paul’s exposition of the Gospel has now reached its rhetorical peak and in some way, the heart of the epistle can be located within these verses that accentuates the saving work of Christ. The apostle has been arguing against any distinction from Jew and Gentile towards God’s judgment and wrath that involves a transition of…
The Teleological Argument for God’s Existence
The teleological argument has historically been one of the most widely cited and popular arguments concerning the existence of God. Also known as the “argument from design,” it states that an intelligent designer must exist since the universe and living things possess marks of a design according to their natural order and pattern. In recent…
Book Review: The God Delusion
The New York Times bestseller, “The God Delusion” written by English biologist Richard Dawkins has currently over 3 million copies sold and is the literary centerpiece for the New Atheism movement. The sole aim of Dawkins’s exposition is to demonstrate the nonexistence of a transcendent being who’s just a delusion of religious dogmatism that is…
An Exposition of Psalm 23
One of the most beloved and memorized from the entire Psalter includes the twenty-third psalm from the shepherd boy who becomes king, David. The great Baptist preacher, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, called it “the pearl of psalms,” probably for its metaphoric usage and elements of prayer language that can be studied from every line. The motif…
Vocation and Creating Gospel Culture: Communicating & Shaping Your Work to God’s Message
The character of our work and vocation, as it is related to the Gospel message and our witness, has been slowly divorcing itself from contemporary humanity. The Gospel is meant to give meaning to the ideology of work and the environment in which we create are to contribute to the greater cause of society. Biblical…
Book Review: Rachel’s Cry
In the book, Rachel’s Cry, Kathleen Billman along with Daniel Migliore examine the lamented prayers as heard through the voice of Rachel’s inconsolable grief due to her children being taken away or put to death according to the prophet Jeremiah (Jer.31:15). The book takes the approach of rediscovering these prayers from a historical, experiential and…
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