Blog Posts
Your Position in Christ vs. Your Condition in Christ
July 10th, 2026
In college I spent a good bit of time with a campus minister named Phil. Phil led Athletes in Action at Michigan State University, and he also helped me start that ministry at my college. Along the way, Phil taught me to how share my faith with others, lead Bible studies, and draw really cool graphics.Well, to be fair, as a trained architect, he drew really cool graphics. I could only translate hi...
America at 250: What Kind of Nation Were You? And What Kind of Nation Will You Be?
July 2nd, 2026
In 1854, the “father of modern church history” and the most important church historian in America, returned to his native land. For ten years, Philip Schaff had taught in the wilderness of Pennsylvania. Recruited to teach at Mercersburg College, Schaff came to America at the age of twenty-four. And after a decade of learning the customs of America, he returned to Germany, where he gave three lectu...
Last Days in the New Testament
June 26th, 2026
“And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh,and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions,and your old men shall dream dreams . . .” - Acts 2:17As I showed last week, the “latter days” is a biblical term that begins in Genesis 49:1 and proceeds through the entire Old Testament. Moses uses the term, and so do t...
The Latter Days
June 17th, 2026
Eschatology precedes soteriology.This is an axiom that I explained when we looked at Genesis 1–2 and how God made the world. When God brought the world into existence, he had a plan for all things. And this telos, or goal, was the basis for saying that proper eschatology depends upon proper protology. And thus, from the beginning of creation, we can see how eschatology began to emerge.In fact, whe...