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David, Saul, And How We Respond To Broken Leadership

...nise that human leaders will fail — even those God appoints. To stand for justice without hatred — interrupting injustice without mirroring it. To practice nonviolent resistance — peacefully demonstrating truth and righteousness. To trust God’s sovereignty — believing that God is ultimately in control of the rise and fall of nations. Peaceful protest, speaking the truth in love, standing firm for what is right in the face of evil — these are the tools of God’s kingdom. Violence, hatred, and bitterness are not. Paul summarises these ideas and the teachings of Jesus in his letter to the Romans, which I’ll quote in full bel...

Do Christians And Muslims Really Worship The Same God?

...speaks to humanity — He enters into it. He is not limited by his transcendence, but chooses to reveal himself out of love. This culminates in the incarnation of Jesus Christ, Immanual — “God with us” (Matthew 1:23). The Qur’an & Hadith: Allah Remains Hidden Islam strongly denies that Allah can ever become man, be seen, or take form. ❌ Surah 42:51 — “It is not for any human being that Allah should speak to him except by inspiration, or from behind a veil…” ❌ Surah 112:3 — “He neither begets nor is born.” ❌ Surah 6:103 — “Vision perceives Him not, but He perceives all vision.” However, Hadith liter...

An Examination of Conditional Immortality (Part One)

...ur souls, human souls, are inherently immortal. But where does this idea come from, because it’s never actually stated in Scripture that this is so. This is an Hellenistic philosophical assumption brought into the text (mainly from Plato’s influence) which can taint our interpretations. If we look at 1 Timothy 6:16 we can see that it is God alone who is immortal: It is he [God] alone who has immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see; to him be honour and eternal dominion. Amen. Any other mention of immortality or eternal life is only ever spoken of as a gift given to us by Jesus, and is often contrasted with the a...

Armageddon Is Not A Battle Plan: What Revelation Actually Says — And Why It Matters Right Now

...t without human hands, that strikes the statue and becomes a mountain filling the whole earth (Dan. 2:31–45). Jerome, in his Commentary on Daniel, identified that fourth empire as Rome and understood the stone as the Kingdom of Christ expanding through the Church — a reading Eusebius shares in his Church History. R.C. Sproul, in The Last Days According to Jesus, represents the same broad tradition in more accessible modern form. The Church, in other words, is that stone: spreading through the empire not by force of arms but by the quiet, unstoppable advance of the Gospel, dismantling Rome’s claims to ultimate authority by proclaiming the truth about th...