By Evan Knies In Galatians 6:16, Paul uses the phrase “Israel of God”. He calls the Galatians the "Israel of God" to show that there is one People united in the Son. The Israel of God is the blood bought, elect, bride of Christ. In Him and because of Him, “Israel” receives her promises. In …
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The Incarnation Is Forever — Vernacular
In 1937, fundamentalist radio broadcaster and activist Carl McIntire published a widely distributed pamphlet entitled “Why Should Christians Be Kind to the Jews?” At the outset of the Second World War, the pamphlet was written to deter Anti-Semitism in America, Nazi Germany, and across the world. As a prominent figure in the emerging Religious Right,… via …
Donald Trump and the Evangelical Vote
By Obbie Todd For years scholars have debated the validity of “secularization theory,” the idea that, as society progresses, religion will irrevocably lose its authority in the public square and in society as a whole. In his monumental work A Secular Age (2007), philosopher Charles Taylor described this view as the “disenchanting” of the world …
William Perkins: 3 Reasons the Spirit Drove Christ into the Wilderness to be Tempted
By Obbie T. Todd While a student at Christ’s College at Cambridge, William Perkins (1558-1602) experienced his conversion after overhearing a woman in the street chiding her disobedient child. Much to his surprise and humiliation, the mother alluded to him as “drunken Perkins.” According to Perkins, this experience then propelled him to reform his ways …
Luther’s “Three Walls”
by Obbie T. Todd The Protestant Reformation was, in many ways, the product of manifold political, social, and religious forces crashing together at a God-ordained moment in history. Still, in other ways, it began with a man. In his 16th century German Reformation, Martin Luther stood defiantly against an institution that had pontificated for over …
The King’s Table 