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Theology in Focus

Theology, church history and apologetics.

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Studies in Scripture, theology and church history.

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Who Is Jesus?

Scripture answers who Jesus is in one sentence: God was in Christ, true God and true man, held within the one God of the Shema.

Doctrine of God
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What Is the Gospel?

The gospel is a fixed message: Christ died for our sins, was buried, and rose again, the announcement of God received by faith.

Salvation
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What Is Sin?

Sin in Scripture is not merely wrong acts but a corrupt nature and an offense against God, for which the only remedy is the new birth.

Systematic Theology
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Penance and the Sufficiency of Christ

Few doctrinal questions carry more practical weight for the believer than this one: on what basis does a guilty conscience find peace with God? The question is not academic. It is the question every penitent sinner asks, and how a…

Salvation
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Three Ways People Relate to God

Three frameworks govern how believers understand divine action: a God who reacts, a God who acts alone, and the God of Scripture who leads while his people truly respond. Only the third carries the full weight of the biblical witness.

Practical Theology
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The Renaissance Made the Reformation Inevitable

The Reformation is often narrated as a sudden theological rupture, as though Martin Luther's protest in 1517 sprang from doctrine alone. The narrower truth is more interesting and more instructive. By the time Luther posted his theses, the intellectual and…

Church History