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Introducing ‘The One Story Bible’
The One Story Bible provides guided notes alongside the ESV text that explore God’s narrative storyline and plan for salvation.
Articles on Theology
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The Work of the Son and the Work of the Spirit Are Inseparable
One helpful way of organizing the elements of the saving work of Jesus is to consider it under three offices, Christ as prophet, priest, and king.
Is Baptism Necessary for Salvation?
What if my sins are too great? What if God doesn’t welcome me in? Baptism reminds us that God has marked you out as belonging to him.
6 Implications of Being Made in the Image of God
The importance of the imago dei cannot be overstated. Its significance ought to touch every area of life. Let me mention six implications of being made in the image of God.
How Can Jesus Be One Person in Two Natures?
Christians have always believed that Jesus is both God and man. The traditional way of putting this in more theological language is that in Christ we meet one person in two natures.
Why Would Jesus Weep Right Before Raising Lazarus? (John 11)
No one knows better than Jesus what is going to happen in this episode. No one is better at mourning with those who mourn than Jesus. Jesus loves people, so he weeps with them, and over them.
How to Navigate the Complexity of Secondary Doctrines
Second-rank doctrines are not essential to the gospel, but they are often important enough to justify divisions at the level of denomination, church, or ministry.
How Prayer Actually Works: To the Father, Through the Son, By the Spirit
You don’t have to get your Trinitarian theology all sorted out before you can pray to the Trinity. Our God hears prayers. He does not wait for us to pass the theology test before he listens to us praying.
Resurrection Hope Is More Prevalent in the Old Testament Than It May First Seem
When you think of death, do you think exclusively about the stopping of the heart and breath? The ending of breath and heartbeats is most surely death, but in the Bible death is more than this.
The Fundamental Identity of the Philippians
The diversity of the metaphors used in the New Testament to portray salvation are all united in the foundation that is union with Christ. This concept lies at the heart of salvation in all of the Bible.
Podcast: How and How Not to Read Jesus’s Parables (Doug O’Donnell)
Dr. Doug O’Donnell explores the meaning and importance of Jesus’ parables and how we can read and understand them today.
What Is Distinct About the Theology of Acts?
The book of Acts offers something unique in the Christian canon. It has no rival in terms of a book spanning so many different lands.
Podcast: Are Science and Faith Really at Odds? (Hans Madueme)
Hans Madueme discusses the relationship between Christian and scientistic worldviews and how science and faith can be brought together today.
George Whitefield’s Theology of Sin and Salvation
George Whitefield held that no aspect of human nature remains unpolluted by the effects of the fallen nature every individual inherits from our first parents.
George Whitefield: “Occasional Theologian” and Lifelong Evangelist
By his own admission, George Whitefield was not a theologian—at least, not of the conventional sort. Indeed, he never aspired to be one.
What Is Distinct About the Theology of Philippians?
At the foundation of our salvation in every way is the reality of our union with Christ. Philippians uniquely shows us the link between suffering, union with Christ, and our greatest joy.
How God Is Present with His People and How His People Abide in Him
What is it for God to be with a people? God may be said to be with men, or present with them, in sundry respects.
What Does It Mean That Jesus Ascended into Heaven?
What is “heaven”? Is it the sky or outer space? Does the Apostle's Creed mean that Jesus was the first astronaut? No, both it and the Bible are making a different point.
Union with Christ Is at the Heart of Reformation Theology
Union takes a central place in Reformed theology because of the way it effectively solves the puzzle of precisely how justification and sanctification relate to each other.
What Is the Doctrine of Inseparable Operations?
All of God’s actions are one because God is one. All three persons are all the time acting as the one God because they are the one God.
What Does “Begotten, Not Made” Mean?
The Greek word translated “only begotten” is monogenēs, a word used five times in the New Testament with reference to Jesus.
6 Lessons We Learn from the Nicene Creed
Here are six summary statements—or, we might say, six lessons—we can learn from this seventeen-hundred year-old confession of faith, the Nicene Creed.
Kevin DeYoung clarifies confusing aspects of the Nicene Creed and highlights how it has played a central role throughout much of church history.
The Appeal to Reasoning Has Its Place in the Life of God’s People
How should the word of revelation, the witness of Christian thought, and the world of human brokenness be related to one another? This, I believe, is a work of wisdom.
How Does Sanctification Differ from Justification?
Justification and sanctification, though related, are different gifts. The most serious, and potentially damning, errors surface when the two are not carefully distinguished.
Where Is God in a World with So Much Evil?
In this video, Collin Hansen offers encouragement for those who struggle to trust God’s justice and goodness in the face of evil and suffering.
Podcast: What’s the Deal with Melchizedek? (Daniel Stevens)
Daniel Stevens addresses some difficult passages in the book of Hebrews and how we should read all of Scripture as it points forward to Christ.
I’m persuaded that much of our fear, anxiety, discouragement, and hopelessness is the result of bad theology. At its core, what is the Bible all about? The existence, character, and plan of God.
Avoiding Heresy When Explaining the Trinity
There are better ways and worse ways to explain the Trinity. We can describe a pie chart where we split God up into parts, and this is one of the worst ways to explain the Trinity.
Faith Makes Both Past and Future Mercies Present to the Soul
There be three things, in the past, or future mercies, which faith makes present to the soul, giving in the substance of them, (1) their love, (2) their consolation, (3) their use and benefit.