If our preaching does not center on Christ–from Genesis to Revelation–no matter how good or helpful, it is not a proclamation of God's Word. "You search the Scriptures in vain, thinking that you have eternal life in them, not realizing that it is they which testify concerning me." With these words, our Lord confronted what […]
The feisty early church leader Tertullian was so impatient with error that he rejected their right of false teachers to quote the Scriptures. He esteemed classical learning so inferior to Christian teaching that he dismissed it with the question, "What hath Athens to do with Jerusalem?" Are we to expect a man like this to […]
Hermeneutics, or the theory of textual interpretation, is one of the hot topics in New Testament studies today. Many are puzzled over the whole matter, for it is finally recognized that one's hermeneutical approach has a significant effect upon the results of one's interpretive conclusions. A generation ago, Cornelius van Til explained this repeatedly: there […]
MR: Dr. Sproul, do you think that in some ways Evangelicals are carried along like the general culture with an obsession of power rather than a concern for preaching Christ crucified?Sproul: Yes, I think it is just another dimension where the Evangelical church is playing catch-up with the world and trying desperately to address the […]
The Heidelberg Catechism is arguably the finest catechism produced in the 16th century. Its warm piety and clear, biblical theology have made it a favorite summary of reformed Christianity for many through the centuries. The catechism was completed in 1563 in Heidelberg, the capital city of the Palatinate in Germany. It was intended to aid […]
The commercial capitol of Greece, Corinth was the quintessence of metropolitan sophistication in the region. Athens was the center of academic life, but the practical Corinthians liked to think that they were up on the latest ideas, too. Temple prostitution was big business at the shrine of Aphrodite (goddess of love). Down the street was […]
Economic issues my have been decisive for the 1992 presidential election, but social and cultural questions were never far from voters' minds, especially the evangelical segment of the electorate. In recent years, America has become increasingly polarized in what sociologist James Davison Hunter calls a "culture war." Hunter argues in Culture Wars: The Struggle to […]
I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book (Rev. 22:18). Every time something big happens in the news (especially if it involves the Middle East) it seems a new set of books, reinterpreting […]
There are three wilderness experiences that are absolutely fundamental to the understanding of redemptive history. The first is the wilderness experience of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. Most of us are familiar with the story in Genesis 3; there is a provision in the wilderness that of all the trees in the […]
Can we really say that preaching today has its roots in this ancient tradition and speaks persuasively out of a knowledge of the Christian faith? Persons in public life will not listen to church people on political, moral, social, and economic matters unless they are first convinced that ministers and church people are scholars in […]
