Know Your Enemy

Sun Tzu, a famous Chinese General, said, “It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself,…

In his dying prayer

…in his dying prayer Servetus cried: “O Jesus, son of eternal God, have pity on me.” Had he only prayed: “O Jesus, eternal son of God,” his prayer would have been orthodox. His punishment was due to his misplacing a single adjective, but “heresy is often a question of grammar” (Cottret). But clearly in the…

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The Private verses the Public: Pausing to Consider Proof of Salvation

How do I know that I’m saved? That is a question I’ve heard with regularity throughout my ministry. It is a vitally important question and doesn’t belong on the heap of theological treatises that have no practical application in life. I come back to this conversation because of a few events within the past few…