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When Did the Gospel Become a Plan of Salvation?
In my last post, “The Gospel Is Bigger Than the Plan of Salvation,” I admitted something that has stayed with me: for years, when I thought I was sharing the Gospel, I was usually sharing the Plan of Salvation. I talked about sin, separation from God, the death of Jesus, personal faith, repentance, and the…
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That Could Never Happen to Me
One of the most dangerous assumptions a believer can make is this: “That could never happen to me.” The generation that went into exile probably never imagined they would become the generation that lost Jerusalem, saw the temple destroyed, and were carried away into Babylon. Yet they did. The tragedy is that they weren’t caught…
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Futurist Premillennialism vs. Amillennialism: Why the Future Matters
We often treat the end of the world like a Rorschach test: we look at the strange, swirling inkblots of Revelation and see whatever our theological tradition has trained us to see. For many, the “end times” is a dusty silo, a place where people argue about charts and helicopters while the rest of us…
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Apocalyptic Literature in the Bible: What It Is, What It Is Not, and Why It Matters
Few areas of the Bible are more misunderstood than apocalyptic literature. To a lot of modern readers, these texts feel strange because they are full of symbols, visions, heavenly scenes, and images that do not fit neatly into our ordinary categories. But in the Bible, this kind of writing is not random or meaningless. It…
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The Three Rebellions and Cosmic War
We often treat the Bible as a collection of moral lessons or private devotional material, but the text keeps resisting that tame reduction. What emerges instead is a cosmic conflict, and that’s exactly why ideas like the Deuteronomy 32 Worldview have become so compelling for many of us. Michael S. Heiser helped recover that interpretive…
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Expectant and Grounded: Why I’m an Active Continuationist with a Bible in My Hands
For many of us, the conversation surrounding spiritual gifts feels like a choice between two equally sterile rooms. On one side, we have the cessationist silo: a space where the supernatural has been safely relegated to the first century, locked away in a museum of “apostolic credentials.” It is a tame world, governed by a logic…
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The Future of Israel: Why the Church Hasn’t Replaced God’s First People
We have a tendency to treat the Bible like a software update. We look at the Old Testament as "Beta 1.0": clunky, localized, and eventually superseded by the sleek, universal "Church 2.0" of the New Testament. In this "tame" modern paradigm, the ethnic people of Israel are often viewed as a temporary scaffolding, useful for…
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“Today You Will Be With Me in Paradise”: The Stunning Theology Behind Jesus’ Words to the Thief on the Cross
One of the most profound statements Jesus ever made came while He was dying. Hanging on the cross beside a criminal, Jesus said: “Truly I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.” Luke 23:43 At first glance, it feels simple and comforting. But underneath that sentence is an enormous amount of…
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Why Michael S. Heiser Will Change the Way You Read Your Bible
We often approach the Bible like a tame garden, well-manicured, predictable, and safely fenced off from the "weirdness" of the ancient world. We’ve been conditioned by centuries of modern rationalism to treat the Scriptures as a collection of moral aphorisms or a systematic checklist for legal standing. But what if we’ve been reading it in…
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Why I Started a Personal Blog: Sharing a Supernatural Worldview in a Secular Age
We live in a world that has been systematically drained of its mystery. In our modern, secular age, we are often encouraged to view the cosmos as a cold, mechanical clock: a closed system governed by physics and biological imperatives. This is what we might call a “tame” worldview. It is comfortable, predictable, and ultimately…
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