Why the Judgment of God is Necessary for the Restoration of All Things
Most Christians have been taught to hold the love of God and the judgment of God in uneasy tension, as though the Father must soften one in order to express the other. But Scripture reveals something far deeper. The judgment of God is not the enemy of His love; it is the severe form of…
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What Universalists Often Overlook About the Restoration of All Things
Those who believe in God’s restoration of all things hold the most optimistic theological doctrine. Biblical universal restoration is indeed true. However, some who harbor this hope have overlooked the journey and the fact that Scripture, from Genesis to the Epistles, consistently emphasizes the existence of a faithful remnant within the people of God. Here…
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The Leavening of the Kingdom
From the beginning, the serpent’s strategy has been to distort the word of God rather than to deny it outright. In the garden he twisted the Lord’s words to Eve; in Israel he mingled idolatry with covenant worship; in the church age he seeks to corrupt the gospel by adding, subtracting, or rearranging truths that…
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Thoughts of Peace: The Father’s Measured Hand in Every Circumstance
The words of Jeremiah 29:11 were not first spoken to people whose lives were flourishing. They were spoken to a nation in exile, living under a foreign empire, mourning a ruined temple, wondering whether the God of their fathers had abandoned them. In that moment of deepest uncertainty, the LORD broke into their despair with…
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