In the incarnation, God the Son, having existed eternally as God and with God, added humanity to his divinity without diminishing or compromising either
“My, God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” There may be no sentence in all Scripture that is more difficult to explain than
It is a general truism that people die as they have lived. Those who come to the end of life with bitterness, regret, and
As he neared the end of his life, Michelangelo, the famous Italian artist, wrote a reflective poem that opened with the following stanza: “The
The final words of someone’s life can be meaningful and powerful. For example, it was just before they died that Joshua called for courage,
Israel was hurting economically, sociologically, and spiritually. The questions they hurl at God throughout this book—questions to which he responds through the prophet, Malachi—are
As with most Old Testament prophets, Malachi was sent by God to confront, correct, and console his wayward people. When he arrived in post-exilic
The Bible is clear: the God of the universe constantly, perfectly, and impartially does what is right and good. He is just. It was
One of the many wonderful characteristics of God is his faithfulness. He is totally trustworthy, unwaveringly reliable, infallibly dependable, and completely incorruptible. So, it
God’s people are a privileged people. Through faith in Christ, we receive perfect redemption and eternal salvation, forgiveness and access, belonging and cleansing, mercy
Whether one is in the practice of making resolutions or not, there is something about the New Year that encourages reassessment and recalibration. Seeing
The theological introduction that the Apostle John provides to his account of the life, death, and resurrection of Messiah (John 1:1–18) is as deep