Why do Christians fall away from the faith? Apostasy refers to the complete rejection or forsaking of one's faith after having been an active participant or believer. This can involve rejecting core doctrines, ceasing participation in religious practices, converting to another religion or openly...
Paul's high Christological Hymn in Colossians 1 is the main focus of this article. It is quite possibly one of my favourite texts of the letters of Paul. Hopefully by the end, you will also—but we should first establish some context. Paul was writing to the church in Colossae, in response to...
Many Christians today function as "New Testament Only" Christians. They apply little to no effort to understand the Old Testament and its application to our lives today. After all, we now have Jesus and the New Testament... so out with the old and in with the new, right? Ironically, the novel...
This is a message that I delivered for my grandmother's funeral from the story of Lazarus in John 11:17–44. Funerals are a sober time and opportunity for us to reflect on death, life and how to live in light of the grave. I pray that it would be helpful for many. Here is the video of the message....
In this series of Greek exegesis articles, we take a passage of the New Testament and analyse the Greek to see what insights we can draw from the text that may not be obvious in our English translations. These articles tend to be a bit more academic in nature (including footnotes and commentary...
This is a continuation of my ExeGreeksis series working through the translation and Greek exegesis of selected texts from Matthew's Gospel. The reader may want to go back and read the previous articles in this series as they do build on each other. The purpose of these articles is to help...
Many Christians today groan when they hear the book of Leviticus because it's so unfamiliar and strange to us. It's hard to relate, and let's face it, it's where we usually lose steam in our yearly Bible reading plan. However, the book of Leviticus is full of amazing truth if we would only do the...
Listen to the audio version of this article here. Little boys just want to conquer and fight something. Boys are rambunctious and full of energy. They have the uncanny ability to make anything into an imaginary weapon or a gun: a stick, a pot spoon, their sister’s curling iron. My godson, Aaron,...
In our first article, we took a look at how to properly interpret the book of Proverbs to glean wisdom from its pages. In the second article, we examined how to read the book of Job and what this godly man's suffering can teach us today. Wisdom in the Balance Ecclesiastes is the last of the three...
In our first article in this series, we looked at some helpful interpretive tips for understanding and applying the book of Proverbs. In this article, we'll take a look at the books of Job and Ecclesiastes. JOB | Wisdom for Struggling with Suffering If Proverbs sought to give us wisdom for living...