Many historians believe the well-known song, The Twelve Days of Christmas, is actually a Christian hymn in disguise. During the reign of England’s Queen Elizabeth I, a staunch Protestant, English Catholics were oppressed and persecuted. Priests met secretly with small… Read More

After last week’s class, I had a conversation with someone about the need to always be willing to amend our theological views when we are shown that they are at odds with Scripture. That is, whatever system or understanding that… Read More

We wrapped up the 18 weeks of the Christian Essentials course with a review of the last two chapters of our book: “What is the final judgment?” and “What is heaven?” We had a good discussion over our author’s view… Read More

In keeping with my spree of end-times related posts, I’ll offer Kim Riddlebarger’s A Case for Amillennialism: Understanding the End Times as the best introduction to this eschatological viewpoint. I picked it up a few years ago. I made it… Read More

One of the questions that came up several times in yesterday’s Christian Essentials class was… How do Postmillennialists understand the great tribulation (Rev 3:10, Matt. 24:15–21 and elsewhere)? I didn’t have a ready answer at the time. After doing a… Read More