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LATEST ARTICLES
- The Face We Have Not Seen
Pictures of Jesus are everywhere. They hang in Sunday school classrooms, fill stained-glass windows, and appear all over the place around Christmas and Easter. Many Christians have never thought to question them. Yet the question is worth asking, because Scripture speaks to it directly. The Second Commandment: No Image… - Portraits From the Past: Huldrych Zwingli, the Iconoclast Who Loved the Arts
“Long before he stripped Zurich’s churches bare, Huldrych Zwingli was a gifted flutist and singer. This is the story of an iconoclast who genuinely loved the arts, and loved Scripture’s authority even more.” - What “My Thoughts Are Not Your Thoughts” Really Means
Isaiah 55 addresses exiled individuals doubting God’s patience after Jerusalem’s fall. It emphasizes God’s abundant pardon and forgiveness, contrasting human notions of conditional forgiveness. The chapter reveals that God’s ways of mercy far exceed human understanding, inviting sinners to seek Him without fear, promising compassion and abundant pardon through Christ. - Burning Bibles to the Glory of God
Sea mist settled over William Tyndale as the ship carried him toward Germany, seeking financial assistance in hopes of continuing his work of translating the Bible into English from its original Greek and Hebrew. This was 1524, and the young scholar had already spent years wrestling with a conviction… - Doctoral Marginalia: Luther vs. Zwingli
This thought comes from my reading of History of the Reformation in the 16th Century, Vol. 3 by J.H. Merle D’Aubigné. D’Aubigné (1794–1872) was a Swiss Reformed historian and theologian who served as professor of church history at the Theological School of Geneva. In Book 11, Chapter 4, he…