Without context, God’s epoch-defining intervention in human history to rescue and transform the world, is turned into an anodyne children’s story.
What does Matthew teach us about Christmas?
All we could do was to give thanks to God and praise him for what he had done.
On the damages of Augustine’s formula and the correction of the Protestant reformation.
Jesus Christ came to this world to die on a cross out of love for you.
A book recently published says the institution loses 120,000 euros a day. “The situation has become worse with Francisco”, Vatican expert Leonardo De Chirico says.
While we are in this life we are still engaged in waging war against sin, despite the fact that it has no lawful power over us.
The Bible teaches that mission requires believers in Jesus Christ to be sent, not people baptized by the Church. This is a significantly different view than that of Pope Francis.
Standing on the shoulders of the apostolic catholicity recovered by the Reformation, this is a promising way to reclaim and to live out the catholicity of the Church in our broken world.
These sixteen stories serve as a useful read for evangelical leaders seeking to understand common themes that might help to understand what influenced an evangelical intellectual to embrace the Roman Catholic Church.
Four views within the evangelical world.
Something is missing in the answers of the Pope. Christ is never mentioned in the whole interview.
Doctrines and practices cannot be disjoined as if they were independent silos, but must be seen as mutually influencing one another.
Christians were dragged to the village leaders and forced to sit and bow to the goddess idol. Police decline to act, sources say.
Jesus stepped in and took upon himself the penalty and punishment for our bad deeds.
Marian devotions were fueled by writings that were never considered to be inspired. Mariological ideas and practices were added from the outside and allowed to penetrate the faith of the people.
Evangelical theology needs to pursue a realistic reading of the Fathers under the supreme authority of Scripture and at the service of the cause of the gospel.
Always take a look and see what the context of the Biblical text is offering by way of motivation.
According to the Observatory for Religious Freedom and Conscience, these incidents grew by 20% in 2018.
There are 331 municipalities of more than 5,000 inhabitants with no evangelical church. Reaching them “continues to be one of the great shortcomings of the mission in Spain”.
The recent book by Thomas G. Guarino, The Disputed Teachings of Vatican II. Continuity and Reversal in Catholic Doctrine, is particularly helpful for evangelicals for at least two reasons.
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI denounces a “new, modern Catholicity” that overturned the traditional moral fabric of Catholic theology and opened the door to the justification of homosexuality and other sexual promiscuities among the clergy.
A Hindu extremist practice of turning animistic villagers against Christians has intensified in Jharkhand, as general elections are underway through May.
Nicaea can’t bring people together because Evangelicals and Catholics have developed different dogmas and practices in their histories in all key areas of the Christian faith.
The ministry is the work of God and we cannot “protect” His work by trying to conceal our sin. The Lord calls us to confess and be transparent.
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