Reforming Evangelicalism
Conservative evangelicalism is changing, driven by an admirable zeal for confessional orthodoxy, Reformed theology, and pastoral leadership. Rising from the ashes of what Rolland McCune …
How Much of a Doctrinal Statement Do We Really Need?
As if to unwittingly confirm the Gospel Coalition’s call for stricter theological formulations, two evangelical groups with murky doctrinal beliefs met on the weekend after …
Church Planting in Chalco Hills
Blane Barfknecht was drunk, again. He was only 18—who knows where he’d gotten the alcohol—and had just dropped out of high school to find work …
Is World Peace Our Objective?
Q. Taking the view your group does on dispensationalism, premillennialism, and the pretribulational Rapture, I sense that you don’t believe in peacemaking in the world …
Last Trumpets Not the Same
Q. First Corinthians 15:51 and 52, apparently referring to the Rapture, link that great event with a sounding of the last trumpet. In Revelation 11:15-19, …
Seven instead of One?
Q. Why does Revelation 5:6 speak of seven Spirits, when there is only one Spirit? A. The “seven Spirits” should be regarded as “sevenfold Spirit,” …
Why at Night?
Q. Why did Nicodemus come to talk with Jesus during the night? A. Nicodemus appears three times in the Gospels; you are referring to the …