Spiritual warfare, particularly in the area of demonology is quite neglected in many reformed...
The Doctrine of God: Eternal Creator and Redeemer
Searching Hearts and Testing Minds The God of Biblical Counseling
The Gospels record that those who heard Jesus teach were “astonished” and “amazed” by the...
What Matthew Henry Can Teach Us about Prayer
In all of the time I have been a Christian and in all of the time I have served in my ministry at...
Defining Miracles Biblically
The way we approach the miraculous is important. Many Christians do not realize that they have adopted an impersonal worldview that makes the miraculous an intrusion into the affairs of our life. They sound often more like David Hume than the Bible. Hume, for example,...
What Are the Incommunicable Attributes of God?
In the study of the doctrine of God, a primary concern is to develop an understanding of His attributes. In this article, we’ll look at specific characteristics of God, such as His Holiness, His immutability, and His infiniteness, to gain a coherent understanding of...
What Are the Communicable Attributes of God?
Theologians often like to use fancy words to describe biblical teaching and categories. In two articles in this issue of Theology for Life Magazine, I’m going to explain what the communicable and incommunicable attributes of God are. In this article, we’ll start with...
The Righteousness of God
In English, the terms righteousness and justice are different words, but in both the Hebrew Old Testament and the Greek New Testament there is only one-word group behind these two English terms. In the Old Testament, the terms primarily translate forms of the tsedek...
God’s Self-Sufficiency: Embracing the Reality that God Doesn’t Need You
In 2009, my wife and I purchased a home in Atlanta, Georgia. Despite being a larger house in a nice neighborhood, it was what our realtor called “a handy man special”. It needed some serious TLC. The fact that dogs had used the walls to “mark” their territory and...
The Grace, Mercy, and Patience of God
God’s mercy, patience, and grace may be seen as three separate attributes, or as specific attributes of God’s goodness. The definitions given here show these attributes as special examples of God’s goodness when it is used for the benefit of specific classes of...