Category: Elder’s Blog

Why does a cancer researcher who has never prayed a prayer in his life make a discovery that saves a million lives? Why does an atheist composer write music that stops you in your tracks and makes you feel something you can't name? Why does the rain fall on the field of a man who curses God as...

Can a true Christian lose their salvation? Few questions in Christian theology are more personal or more contested. Your answer determines where you go when you've sinned badly, how you read the warning passages in Hebrews, what you say to a believer who has walked away from the faith, and whether...

Martin Luther didn't invent justification by faith alone. He recovered it. The doctrine had been buried under centuries of accumulated religious machinery — indulgences, penance, purgatory, the treasury of merit — until a German monk read Romans and couldn't unsee what he found there. What he...

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When you became a Christian, who made that happen? Most people, if they're honest, will say something like: "Well, God did his part and I did mine." That sounds humble. It might not be. The question of who does the saving is not a secondary debate for theologians with too much time on their hands....