Why did God create the world? While speculation about God’s divine purposes is usually fruitless and often dangerous, a sufficient (at least as adequate as anything I’ve researched), albeit non-exhaustive answer is found in the Trinity. Understanding God as love is best comprehended in the eternal context between the three persons of Father, Son and [...]

How does the Son fulfill his role alongside the Father and Holy Spirit in the stage of creation? What is the Holy Spirit’s role in the creation of the universe? And more commonly answered, what is the Father’s role in the creation of the universe? These are all relevant questions for the thinking Christian. How [...]

“The believer feels no shame, as though he were still living too much in the flesh, when he yearns for the physical presence of other Christians. Man was created a body, the Son of God appeared on earth in the body, he was raised in the body, in the sacrament the believer receives the Lord [...]

Tyler Smith discusses the difference between God’s love for humanity in general and God’s specific love for the elect as it was accomplished in and applied by the atoning blood of Jesus Christ.  Whether you’re a Calvinist or not, you will enjoy this article!

Having discussed the source from which God’s love flows—that is God’s essential attribute of love as it is and has been expressed perpetually and eternally, apart from and independent of the created order, within His intratrinitarian Persons (See my first installment to this series)—we can now consider the expressions of the outworking of God’s other-orientation [...]

The world today seems to believe in no attribute of God’s essential nature other than His love, or at least what it assumes to be His love. Any concept of God that includes His holiness, justice, sovereignty, or wrath is excluded and is deemed incompatible with this contemporary God of love. God’s love is becoming [...]

Throughout redemptive history, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit have worked and will continue to work in accordance with each other to accomplish the Father’s designed plan.  From Creation to New Creation, all three members work in unity and harmony for this plan to progress.  In our present day, we are currently between the stage [...]

The role of Jesus during his incarnational ministry is seen perfectly in his life, death, and resurrection, but with a careful reading of Scripture there are many implications that can be made of how this work fits into the bigger picture of what God is doing throughout history.  With a proper understanding that the Jesus [...]

How does the Son fulfill his role along side the Father and Holy Spirit in the stage of creation?  First of all, we understand that the Father is the primary member of the Trinity who creates and speaks the world into existence (Genesis 1:1, Hebrews 11:3, Hebrews 1:2).  Genesis 1:1 says, “God created the Heavens [...]