Imperishable Inheritance

Isn’t it amaz­ing how we can so eas­ily miss crit­i­cal lessons in the Scrip­tures? As I’ve been think­ing about the impor­tance of Chris­t­ian love I never imag­ined how incred­i­bly pro­nounced it is. I mean, I knew it was there, but only recently is it really hit­ting me. And the love we are com­manded to have joy in is not just towards God but our fel­low brethren and those out­side of the faith. The ethic of love should seem­ingly per­me­ate (read more...)

Many Antichrist Have Already Come John is the only author that uses the title “antichrist” in his writ­ing and only in his epis­tles. In his first epis­tle writ­ing against the Docetists (they believe that Jesus did not have a phys­i­cal body) he states that: “By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that con­fesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; and every spirit that does not con­fess Jesus is not from God; this is (read more...)

There are few doc­trines in Chris­tian­ity that are sen­sa­tion­al­ized (and com­mer­cial­ized) as the doc­trine of the antichrist. This lumi­nous fig­ure has found its way into main­stream cul­ture through movies, books, and the like. The ques­tion that should con­cern think­ing Chris­tians is what is the Bib­li­cal truth on the antichrist? How can we be best pre­pared for this fig­ure with­out the media shap­ing our the­ol­ogy more than the Scriptures? I read a book a while back by Kim Rid­dle­barger on Amil­lenial­ism, (read more...)