Universalism

That All Shall Be Saved Considering David Bentley Hart’s Universalism Christians have long disagreed about how God will deal with unbelievers on the Day of Judgment. Some think God will ultimately save all people. Some think life is conditional and that unbelievers...

Restitution

 Restitution A just world is properly ordered:  God is recognized as Lord, while humans live as stewards over creation. In a just world, humans are mutually caring.  When injustice occurs, restitution must follow, in order to re-establish the just...

Dane Ortlund’s Hell

The Need For Hell Matt Smethurst, editor of the Gospel Coalition, read Dane Ortlund’s booklet, Is Hell Real? Impressed, Smethurst shared a long list of quotes with his readers. Apparently Ortlund thinks hell is a place of everlasting torment. Ortlund doesn’t consider...

Grace

Salvation by grace is a concept crucial to Christianity. Salvation by grace is crucial to humanity. If this is so, why is it so? We cannot fully explain God’s thinking on the matter, of course, but he has revealed quite a bit on the subject. It’s all Good News and...

John 4.1-45

Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. And he had to pass through Samaria. So he...