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My New Book All God’s Creatures, Coming This Fall

My latest book All God’s Creatures: What the Bible Says About Animals, Heaven, and the...

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Why Thinking Accurately about the Future Heaven Is Vital

Jonathan Edwards, the great Puritan preacher, often spoke of Heaven. He said, “It becomes us...

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March 28, 2024

What Is God’s Simplicity?

Kevin DeYoung is a pastor and an excellent writer and thinker, and his resources can be...

February 2024

February 22, 2024

Why Does a Biblical Theology of Suffering Matter?

How we think about suffering will radically affect how we see God and the world...

April 2023

April 27, 2023

Does the Church Need More Heart Knowledge or More Head Knowledge?

I’ve heard people say, “We don’t need more head knowledge in the church today; we...

April 22, 2023

Why Is Affirming Biblical Truth Important for All of Us?

Lots of people believe everyone will go to Heaven or that Hell doesn’t exist. Where...

July 2022

July 04, 2022

Albert Wolters’s Creation Regained, and the Vast Redemptive Scope of the Gospel

While researching online about the New Earth for my book Heaven, I stumbled upon Creation Regained. I ordered...

May 2022

May 26, 2022

Honest Faith Can Cry out to God

As I shared recently with a friend, it’s a new world I’m living in without...

January 2022

January 27, 2022

When We Lose Sight of Heaven, Our North Star

In his book The Eclipse of Heaven, theology professor A. J. Conyers argues that until recently...

July 2021

July 26, 2021

What Is the Value of Studying Systematic Theology?

A reader asked me, “What is the value of systematic theology? Isn’t there a risk...

September 2019

September 05, 2019

God, Greed, and the (Prosperity) Gospel: A New Book by Costi Hinn, Nephew of Benny Hinn

I just finished reading Costi Hinn’s new book God, Greed, and the (Prosperity) Gospel: How Truth...

September 13, 2018

Charles Spurgeon and the Importance of Consistency with Scripture in Theology

I think Charles Spurgeon comes as close as anyone I’ve read to articulating what Scripture...

December 2017

December 29, 2017

Star Wars Movies Are Fun, Just Remember They Sometimes Contradict a Biblical Worldview

Star Wars is fun to watch but a very poor place to get your theology!

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