“If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for the witness of God is this, that he has borne witness concerning His Son. The one who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself; the one who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because [...]

Over the last month or so, from the blogosphere to the news, to Facebook, etc., much has been said regarding Rob Bell’s latest book Love Wins.  I commented on this book in my last post and will devote this post to it as well.  Given that this heretical book will probably influence many for years [...]

Picture someone walking into their favorite local bookstore and going to their favorite section.  Perhaps he went into the fiction section of the store and picked up one of the Harry Potter books.  This person picks up the last book of the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, turns to p. 458, and reads [...]

Many Christians only stress the importance of Bible reading.[i] While that task is important, more should be stressed.  That is, it also matters how one interprets the Bible.  It is often in the task of interpretation that false teaching, heresy, etc., are founded and thus spread.  We at TVN, however, want out readers to be [...]

In Part 1 of this article, we looked at how the Speech Act Theory interacts with Post-modernism and critiques its generalized skepticism on truth. This should be encouraging for a couple of reasons. Not everyone in the world is Post-modern(!) no matter what your college professor leads you to believe. Also, even secular theorists realize [...]

So here is the situation. Post Modernism thinks language fails and true communication between people is limited, if even possible. Christianity, on the other hand, affirms God has revealed himself through language in the Bible and eternal life or condemnation depends on this revelation. Uh oh. That seems irreconcilable. Spoiler Alert: it is irreconcilable.

What is a covenant? We do not have covenants in our culture. When we make a business decisions, we make contracts. But, when God chose to reveal his relationship to humanity in redemption, he chose the covenant. In many situations, we want to take the Bible and apply it to our culture and transform our [...]

The Blessings and Cursings of the Covenant When God gave the covenant to Israel, he did not hide the outcome of their faith or faithlessness. Rather in Deuteronomy 28, He clearly told them of the blessings the nation would experience for their faith and obedience but also of the curse that would come if they [...]

God of the Covenant The first thing we see from Genesis 1-3 is that God is Creator. We constantly see in the Bible, that when something happens that is good, God is the creator or originator. We also saw by the example of Genesis 1-3, that when something happens that is bad, man is the [...]

Great Illustration of Law and Gospel Muscles are a great example of how a Christian must read the Law and Gospel. To grow, a muscle does not build on top of itself. When you lift weights you do not create new muscle by the repetition of weight. Rather, with every repetition you tear away the [...]