Essay: God’s power or human violence – the meaning of the virgin birth
ESAU MCCAULLEY, author and associate professor of New Testament at Wheaton College in the US, writes, in an article first published on Religion News Service, that the Christmas story challenges the idea that we need physical might to overcome enemies…
Explainer – Trump and the politics of the Messiah
RNS Does President Trump have a Messiah complex? No, according to some of his most loyal evangelical Christian supporters – but one could see how he might get the idea that he is here to save the world. President Trump speaks with reporters before departing on Marine One on the South Lawn of the White […]
FOREST AND TREES
After Jesus rose from the dead, He is said to have revealed to the disciples how Scripture shows the Messiah must suffer and die and rise again on the third day. What does Scripture say about Christ? PICTURE: Josh Applegate/Unsplash But when one goes hunting for this evidence, there isn’t much to find. Isaiah 53, […]
THE WORD: KINGDOM
LLOYD HARKNESS looks at the Biblical meaning of ‘kingdom’…