Ten Ways to Preserve Fellowship with a Zealous but Misguided Friend

Walking with a zealous friend whose theology is tangled can be both exhausting and heartbreaking. Here are proven strategies to help you both.

Every believer will eventually meet someone who is deeply sincere, fiercely committed to Scripture — and yet firmly convinced of interpretations that stretch, distort, or ignore what the Bible actually Continue ReadingTen Ways to Preserve Fellowship with a Zealous but Misguided Friend

Christians are Grafted into the Blessings of the New Covenant

The New Covenant was inaugurated by Christ’s blood and made with Israel alone, but the Church participates in its spiritual blessings by being grafted into the natural olive tree, with full fulfillment reserved for national Israel in the future.

The Bible talks a lot about something called the “New Covenant.” Some people think it’s just a New Testament thing for Christians, but the story is much bigger. It starts Continue ReadingChristians are Grafted into the Blessings of the New Covenant

An Introduction to Lyman H. Johnson’s “A Series of Lectures on the Church of the Bible and its Apostasy”

“A Series of Lectures on the Church of the Bible and its Apostasy” by Lyman H. Johnson

Reading Lyman H. Johnson’s lectures on “the Church of the Bible and its Apostasy” from the early 1900s might, at first glance, seem a world away from the sun-drenched beaches Continue ReadingAn Introduction to Lyman H. Johnson’s “A Series of Lectures on the Church of the Bible and its Apostasy”