There is no place for suffering in the quintessentially American religion of Joel Osteen's theology of glory.

Joel Osteen's “good news” turns out to be the worst possible news-God's blessing on my life depends on my own good works.

Those who preach a gospel of “a personal relationship with God” fail to realize that everyone has a relationship with God already: either as a condemned criminal or as a justified co-heir with Christ.

God is not abstractly interested in ensuring that we are either successful or unsuccessful; he has far larger plans for us.

Through Naaman receiving healing from his leprosy we learn that God is sovereign in taking his people from bondage to blessing.

 Jesus replies to the thief's requiest in abundant mercy and superlative blessing that the earth had not yet known.

In Old Testament Israel we see a foreshadowing, a type of the heavenly eternal kingdom of Jesus Christ.

Even on the cross Jesus is in communion with his Father, revealing the profound and majestic inter-Trinitarian fellowship.

Zion is contrasted with the cities of this world because it is founded by God as the fortress and dwelling place of His people.

God in his mysterious providence uses the most unlikely means to accomplish his sovereign purpose.

The death of the Son of God is the Gospel itself.

The Apostle Paul utilizes Psalm 78 to encourage the church to be confident in their election in Christ and warn them of the temptation of taking the love of God for granted as Israel had done.

The God who saves, keeps, and protects his people even now.

The importance of the Word of God is always to challenge our way of thinking so that our minds might be transformed.

The Apostle Paul reminds the Corinthians and us that changing the gospel jeopardizes its saving effect.

Trusting in the Lord is at the heart of the life and experience of the Christian.

Paul's profound declaration of just how radically extensive and exclusive is Christ's mediation, as a free gift.

Personal reflections on the history of Westminster Seminary California.

Isaiah prophecies in proleptic form that the hope for both Jew and Gentile resides in God's saving intervention fulfilled in Christ.

An analysis of Mark's account of Jesus and the Gadarene demoniac.