In my reading of Sean McDonough’s brilliant new book Christ as Creator: Origins of a New Testament Doctrine (see my forthcoming review in the next issue of the Ichthus), I was alerted to an important pattern in the Gospels that is so obvious and striking, I am stunned that I never noticed it in
03.28.2011| The Fish Tank | Nick Nowalk
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“God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. In this love has been perfected with us, in order that we might have confidence in the day of judgment, because just as he is so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fe
02.14.2011| The Fish Tank | Nick Nowalk
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For Part 3 in this series, click here. In response to our rebellion against Him, the shape of God’s punishment fits the nature of our crime with ironic justice—namely, by allowing the consequences of our sin to play themselves out in the resulting moral decay and social breakdown we experi
01.30.2011| The Fish Tank | Nick Nowalk
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For Part 2 in this series, click here. “For the wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible
01.23.2011| The Fish Tank | Nick Nowalk
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For part 1 in this series, click here. “For the wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible
01.16.2011| The Fish Tank | Nick Nowalk
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The beginning of a four-part series on Romans 1:18-32, this material comes out of some research and writing I've been doing recently. “A soul that turns away from You therefore lapses into sexual immorality when it seeks apart from You what it can never find in pure and serene form except by ret
01.9.2011| The Fish Tank | Nick Nowalk
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(For the first part of this series, click here.) The Claim Some people believe that the Bible is inerrant. By this they mean that what the Bible says is invariably true, or that the Bible never goes wrong with respect to what it says, or that the Bible, properly interpreted, is always reliabl
10.22.2010| The Fish Tank | Cameron D. Kirk-Giannini
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