With so many pastors leaving the ministry, church leaders need to understand the importance of spiritual formation and its role in their life and ministry.
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By allowing the ideas of the text to emerge inductively, rather than looking for texts that fit our preset ideas, we will be much more likely to honor the author’s intentions on the whole-book level.
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The growing hostility towards biblical truth and the relativistic culture that dominates the world has affected the way preachers handle the Scriptures. Here's how biblical hermeneutics can equip pastors like me to rightly handle the Scriptures.
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When a church is able to respond to this biblical mandate with the kind of zeal that the Reformers possessed, the impact of the gospel will be felt far and wide.
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The genesis of the English Reformation was peculiar because it had nothing to do with doctrine. In the sixteenth century, the Puritans expressed a strong desire for a full reformation that would put an end to anything Romish.
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In a time when Christian morals are being swallowed up by worldly values, the church today needs to uphold the teachings of the Reformers on the doctrine of justification sola fide.
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While the church has affirmed the complexity of human nature throughout its history, theologians have taken different positions in regard to the doctrine of humanity.
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“If God is good, why would he allow people to suffer?” Lewis has challenged me not to dismiss this question but to approach it with truth and grace.
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While it may appear that the Medieval period offered nothing but despair, the sparks that came from anti-clericalism, ecclesiastical controversies, political upheavals, and the persistent cry of the Renaissance: ad fontes (to the sources) eventually ignited a flame; a Reformation that would change the course of world history.
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The purpose of this article is to provide some basic information and background to the book of Nahum to give us some context to this ancient, yet important, book.
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