A cool segment from my interview with N.T. Wright about the place of justification by faith in PFG. Read more

We shall celebrate Christmas and now for once let us make it really a festival of Christ in the world. Then we must prepare ourselves by getting rid of something which plays a great role in our lives. We must be clear about how, in the face of the manger, we shall think about what is high and what is low in human life in the future. Of course, we are not all powerful, even if we wish we were... Read more

Earlier I blogged and promoted the book by Sherif Girgis, Ryan Anderson, and Robert George, What is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense. Any ways, Sherif Girgis was interviewed by the CPX crew on the topic, and is a great interview. http://vimeo.com/81710184 Well worth watching! Read more

Danny Zacharias has produced a great video series on Mastering Logos Bible Software. It normally retails for $20, but there is a special 80% discount for Euangelion readers who can get it for $5. This Logos Bible Software tutorial course is designed to cover every aspect of this powerful software for studying the Bible. Several hours of lecture covers not only the desktop version, but includes a section on the mobile app as well. Kickstart your study of the Bible... Read more

So the whole of the message of Advent becomes an urgent sermon, calling men and women to repentance. Before Jesus came John the Baptist, and we must not over him. For the whole of the early Christians, Advent was a time for repentance, not for rejoicing. All the hymns that we have sung speak of this and it seems to me that it is right that we should have sung with repentant hearts. (But now it is true that in... Read more

In a dream he sends his angel to Joseph and tells him to flee to Egypt, beyond the limit of Herod’s power. Mysterious as God himself are his means. There never fail powers and servants to make know his will. Surely, he has given us his Word and there made clear his will . . . The child, Jesus, must fly with his elders. Could God not have protected him from Herod even in Bethlehem? Of course he could, but... Read more

I’m sure you’re all familiar with Santa Clause, the obese cola-chugging cookie-chomping fat man, who commits B&E offences across the world, organized from his crime syndicate HQ in the tax-exempt north pole, where he keeps midgets with pointy ears enslaved in his sweat shop to make cheap merchandise for Toys-R-Us. But that Santa is not the real St. Nicholas. No, the real St. Nicholas of Myra was a die hard socialist who believed in giving hands outs to the poor and... Read more

The child Jesus returns to the land of Israel, at God’s call. Jesus comes to claim his kingdom and to mount his throne. Joseph brings Jesus first to Judea, where the King of Israel will wait. But a special divine word delays him and commends him to settle in Nazareth. For the Israelites, Nazareth has a scandalous and unpleasant sound in their ears: “Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?” (John 14:6, Nathanael is speaking). Despite this and perhaps because... Read more

Over at the BibleGateway Blog is a good summary of my approach to the inerrancy question from the book Biblical Inerrancy: Five Views. Just to qualify, I’m not opposed to inerrancy per se, I believe in Scripture as trustworthy and true, infallible to the matters to which it speaks, and authoritative for the life of the church. Inerrancy is one way of saying that, but its not the only way, what some people mean by inerrancy can be problematic, and the... Read more

Over at Bart Ehrman’s blog are a couple of previews (see here) of his forthcoming book How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee (HarperOne, due out in March 2014). Any way, I’ve been in hospital recently, and while I was there I caught up with a little bit of Martin Hengel’s short volume, The Son of God, and here is why: Martin Hengel exposed many of the tenuous arguments put forward for an evolutionary process to christological development... Read more