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Mitch Chase presents another helpful article, “Concealed and Then Revealed,” on the necessity of both the Old and New Testaments for Christians. The title reflects a quotation from Augustine, “The New is in the Old concealed; the Old is in the New revealed.” The Story of God’s redemptive plan is …
Mitch Case explains Romans 8:22 in his longish article, “What Does It Mean That All of Creation Groans?” Not just people suffer under the heavy load of human sin but nature too. The apostle Paul uses personification to illustrate that all life eagerly anticipates the glorification of God’s elect. The …
In his July 6 article, “He Made Them Male and Female,” Mitch Case argues from the first two chapters of Genesis that God’s design of human bodies as male and female is a fundamental, necessary part of our existence. Today’s “heartbreaking confusion” over gender will have long-term damaging ramifications. When …
In “Why Did Ruth Enter Boaz’s Tent in the Middle of the Night? (Ruth 3),” Mary Willson Hannah tackles some of the difficult questions surrounding Ruth’s venture to Boaz’ threshing floor to propose marriage. We can rest assured that, as types of greater, righteous actors, their actions were culturally and …
In his recent post, “Stop Calling Faithfulness a Sacrifice,” Stephen Kneale offers a counter-argument to a common attitude toward living the Christian life. Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 17:10 that, having obeyed God’s commands, we are still “unprofitable servants. We have done what was our duty to do.” As …
In his recent article, “Why do our Bibles contain these books and not others?” Tony Watkins provides an overview of how the Bible’s 66 books came to be included within its covers. We can be confident that these are the books God wanted to be preserved through the ages. The …
In his article, “Help! I Want to Get Married, but I Can’t Afford It,” Russ Gehrlein gives some practical and biblical advice to young people who desire to marry but feel it is out of reach. Among his best points are to develop a plan and to trust God along …
In “The Problem with Proverbs,” Peter Krol writes about the unique practicality of the book of Proverbs, which invests it with peculiar problems. He shows how the book is arranged, with the final two-thirds based on the initial third and its godly worldview. The two cannot be separated. What a …
