TMS Distinctives: A High View of the Holy Spirit
The Master's Seminary Over the past few weeks, the seminary has been posting faculty videos related to its core doctrinal commitments. The six videos in this series center on Pneumatology, and the commitment at TMS to a high view of the Person and work of the Holy Spirit.
A Complementarian Manifesto Against Domestic Abuse
Jason Meyer Egalitarians and complementarians both agree that the Bible views women and men as spiritual equals in God’s sight. There are no gender differences whatsoever in terms of dignity or value. The two views are unified in terms of equality with respect to gender essence and ontological worth.
Five Truths About Eternal Security
John Piper In this lab, John Piper deals with the security of every believer, and draws in lots of texts to explain how God keeps his children from falling away. He summarizes this important doctrine with five critical truths...
Why I'm Complementarian
Gavin Ortlund By complementarianism, I mean the view that men and women are equal as God’s fellow image bearers, but nonetheless have some differences of role in the church and in the home. The way I like to put it is equal, but not interchangeable. In other words,...
Evaluating Seventh-day Adventism
Dr. Nathan Busenitz What are the historical origins and basic tenets of Seventh-Day Adventism, and how should evangelicals view this movement? There are major deficiencies within Seventh-Day Adventist Theology that ought to give evangelical Christians serious pause. Here are three:
3 Good Reasons to be “Re-Baptized”
Jordan Standridge I believe that for the sake of obedience to Jesus and for the sake of conscience we should take the practice of baptism seriously. So, in light of the importance that Scripture places on baptism, here are three reasons which might lead a person to consider getting “re-baptized.”
One of the Strangest Commands in the Bible
Mark Altrogge Why in the world would God tell Israel to hamstring captured horses? Does he have something against horses? After many battles in their conquest of the promised land, one day Joshua and Israel faced the mightiest army yet to be assembled against them...
Debunking Stupid Statements about the Bible: An Exercise in Biblical Transmission
Greg Gilbert One American tabloid recently said this about the Bible: "No television preacher has ever read the Bible. Neither has any evangelical politician. Neither has the pope. Neither have I. And neither have you. At best, we’ve all read a bad translation—a translation of translations of translations of hand-copied copies of copies of copies of copies, and on and on, hundreds of times." First of all, it’s not true...
New Evidences the Gospels were Based on Eyewitness Accounts
Dr, Peter Williams From The Lanier Library Lecture Series, this lecture gives evidences the Gospels were based on eyewitness accounts.
The Believer’s Unfathomable Riches in Christ
J. Hampton Keathley When anyone accepts Jesus Christ as their personal Savior they are instantaneously enriched with every spiritual blessing in Christ (Eph. 1:3) and declared to be complete in Christ (Col. 2:10). In fact, the Apostle Paul refers to these blessings as “the unfathomable riches of Christ” in Ephesians 3:8...
The Story of Iran’s Church in Two Sentences
Mark Howard Persecution threatened to wipe out Iran’s tiny church. Instead, the church in Iran has become the fastest growing in the world, and it is influencing the region for Christ...
What Does Paul Mean by ‘Baptism for the Dead’?
Dan Doriani Near the middle of his great reflection on the resurrection, the apostle Paul pauses to ask his readers: “What do people mean by being baptized on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized on their behalf” (1 Cor. 15:29)? The phrase “baptism for the dead” is so obscure and perplexing, the meaning so uncertain...
You Cannot Serve Both God and Theology
Marshall Segal Is money more spiritually dangerous than theology? The answer may be trickier than we think, especially within the numbing comfort of a proudly affluent and educated American Church. Money is a tangible, countable, often visible god. Theology, on the other hand — if it is cut off from truly knowing and enjoying God himself — can be a soothing, subtle, superficially spiritual god...
The Reformation Gave Us a Seat at the Table
Kevin DeYoung Next to justification, there was no issue more fiercely debated during the Reformation than the doctrine of the Lord’s Supper. Although the Reformers did not always agree among themselves as to the meaning of the Supper, they were unified in their opposition to the Roman Catholic notion of transubstantiation...
Intro to Romans 5-16
The Bible Project An illustrated look into the themes and theology in the book of Romans.
Intro to Romans 1-4
The Bible Project An illustrated look into the themes and theology in the book of Romans.