https://theologyinfocus.org/library.htmlArticles, videos and audio from Theology in Focus.en-ushttps://theologyinfocus.org/teaching-U1ySrFzhrLU.htmlAcross the major traditions of Christian theology, one of the deepest divisions concerns justification: On what basis does God declare a sinner righteous?Shorthttps://theologyinfocus.org/teaching-U1ySrFzhrLU.htmlMon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/teaching-YwefIaVm2_w.htmlWhat does it mean to say that justification is "imputed"?Shorthttps://theologyinfocus.org/teaching-YwefIaVm2_w.htmlMon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/teaching-_T2S-AVXCtU.htmlHave you ever noticed the contradiction?Shorthttps://theologyinfocus.org/teaching-_T2S-AVXCtU.htmlWed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/teaching-st2t3jLbn5I.htmlWhy does evil exist? Because God created human beings with genuine moral agency, and humanity repeatedly abuses that freedom.Shorthttps://theologyinfocus.org/teaching-st2t3jLbn5I.htmlWed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/teaching-ivMG1nVzNaw.htmlWhy does God allow evil? One reason is that God is giving humanity time to repent, both individually and collectively. His patience should not be mistaken for approval, indifference, or...Shorthttps://theologyinfocus.org/teaching-ivMG1nVzNaw.htmlWed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/when-power-hijacks-institutions/The medieval church's corruption is real, but it began when Rome took up Christianity for its own ends under Constantine.Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/when-power-hijacks-institutions/Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/where-did-non-denominational-churches-come-from/Non-denominational churches are now among the largest groupings of Protestants in America. Where they came from and what they trade away.Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/where-did-non-denominational-churches-come-from/Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/where-did-the-pentecostal-church-come-from/Pentecostalism did not exist in 1900. Within a century it counted hundreds of millions. Where it began and how it spread.Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/where-did-the-pentecostal-church-come-from/Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/where-did-the-seventh-day-adventist-church-come-from/This tradition began with a date that passed, and the question of what to do afterward. Its origins, beliefs, and the cult charge.Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/where-did-the-seventh-day-adventist-church-come-from/Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/where-did-the-church-of-christ-come-from/The Churches of Christ arose from a movement that set out to abolish denominations, and which produced three of them.Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/where-did-the-church-of-christ-come-from/Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/where-did-the-methodist-church-come-from/Methodism did not begin as a church. It began as a nickname, and an unkind one. How it became a separate tradition.Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/where-did-the-methodist-church-come-from/Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/where-did-the-quakers-come-from/The proper name is the Religious Society of Friends. Quaker was an insult. Where the movement began and what it actually holds.Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/where-did-the-quakers-come-from/Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/teaching-Lb7pTjtlK_w.htmlThere are different kinds of admiration. We can admire something without wanting to become like it. We can admire someone because they possess a quality we would like to imitate. But...Shorthttps://theologyinfocus.org/teaching-Lb7pTjtlK_w.htmlTue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/where-did-the-congregational-church-come-from/The Pilgrims were Congregationalists, as were the founders of Harvard and Yale. How the tradition began and what became of it.Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/where-did-the-congregational-church-come-from/Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/where-did-the-presbyterian-church-come-from/Presbyterian is not a doctrine but a form of government, and the name says so. Where it began and what it was reacting against.Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/where-did-the-presbyterian-church-come-from/Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/where-did-the-anglican-church-come-from/Henry VIII wanting a divorce is right about the occasion and wrong about the cause. What the 1530s actually changed in England.Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/where-did-the-anglican-church-come-from/Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/where-did-the-mennonites-and-amish-come-from/The Amish are not a separate religion from the Mennonites. Both descend from one act in a Zurich house in 1525, and divided in 1693.Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/where-did-the-mennonites-and-amish-come-from/Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/where-did-the-lutheran-church-come-from/Martin Luther asked his followers not to use his name. How a dispute over indulgences in 1517 became a separate church.Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/where-did-the-lutheran-church-come-from/Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/where-did-the-eastern-orthodox-church-come-from/Orthodoxy claims no founder and no founding date. How the Christian world came to be divided between East and West, and why 1054 misleads.Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/where-did-the-eastern-orthodox-church-come-from/Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/where-did-the-catholic-church-come-from/The church began as local congregations with no legal standing. This traces how it became the religion of the empire and then claimed authority over every ruler in Christendom.Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/where-did-the-catholic-church-come-from/Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/what-is-psalm-91/The psalm of refuge, and the one the devil quoted with a clause left out. What Psalm 91 promises, to whom, and why a thousand may still fall nearby.Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/what-is-psalm-91/Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/what-is-john-3-16/The most memorized verse in Scripture, read inside the night conversation it belongs to, with the bronze serpent that explains it and the whosoever that carries it.Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/what-is-john-3-16/Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/what-are-the-seven-deadly-sins/The list is not in Scripture. It runs from Evagrius in the Egyptian desert through John Cassian to Gregory the Great, who reduced eight vices to seven.Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/what-are-the-seven-deadly-sins/Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/what-does-jeremiah-29-11-mean/A letter carried to captives in Babylon, dated by seventy years and followed by a condition. What the verse promises when it is read in its own setting.Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/what-does-jeremiah-29-11-mean/Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/what-is-heaven/Scripture describes two events, not one: a purging on the pattern of Noah that opens the millennial reign, and a wholly new creation after the thousand years.Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/what-is-heaven/Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/can-a-christian-lose-salvation/Scripture speaks with two voices on eternal security. Salvation cannot be lost by any sin or weakness, and the warning passages describe something else entirely.Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/can-a-christian-lose-salvation/Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/lucifer-and-the-morning-star/Isaiah 14:12 does not use the Hebrew word for star. The title Christ claims in Revelation 22:16 is not the title Isaiah gives to the fallen one.Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/lucifer-and-the-morning-star/Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/what-is-the-church/The New Testament word ekklesia means a called-out assembly, never a building. What the church is, how the word drifted, and what the Reformation recovered.Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/what-is-the-church/Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/what-is-grace/Grace is the free and undeserved favor of God toward those who have earned the opposite, favor that pardons sinners completely and transforms them entirely.Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/what-is-grace/Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/the-ten-commandments-explained/Given after Israel's redemption from Egypt, not before it, the Ten Commandments were never a ladder to heaven but the family code of a people already saved.Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/the-ten-commandments-explained/Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/what-is-prayer/Prayer is address to the living God made possible through Christ. Scripture teaches that it be simple, honest, regular, and shaped by the will of God.Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/what-is-prayer/Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/who-wrote-the-bible/Scripture names roughly forty human authors across fifteen centuries, and claims a single divine Author behind them, holy men moved by the Holy Ghost.Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/who-wrote-the-bible/Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/what-happens-when-we-die/Death is a separation, not an ending. Scripture describes conscious life after death, a coming judgment, and the resurrection of the body as the Christian hope.Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/what-happens-when-we-die/Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/the-lords-prayer-explained/The Lord's Prayer is examined petition by petition, showing why it places God's name, kingdom, and will before our bread, pardon, and protection.Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/the-lords-prayer-explained/Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/why-did-jesus-have-to-die/The death of Christ was sacrifice, substitution, and reconciliation at once, satisfying divine justice and revealing that the love which saves originates in God.Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/why-did-jesus-have-to-die/Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/teaching-f6wubnYTF74.htmlOne of the most interesting things I have noticed about AI has very little to do with technology.Shorthttps://theologyinfocus.org/teaching-f6wubnYTF74.htmlSat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/is-the-bible-reliable/The Bible proves reliable when tested as history, and it claims more: to be the very word breathed out by God, by which we live.Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/is-the-bible-reliable/Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/psalm-23-explained/A verse by verse reading of Psalm 23 as the song of trust of David, from green pastures through the valley to the house of the Lord.Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/psalm-23-explained/Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/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.Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/who-is-jesus/Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/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.Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/what-is-the-gospel/Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/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.Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/what-is-sin/Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/be-reconciled-to-god-why-the-finished-work-of-christ-must-still-be-received/I. A Sentence That Changes Everything There is a single sentence in the writings of Paul that, once a man truly grasps it, alters the way he reads the whole of the gospel. Paul says that...Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/be-reconciled-to-god-why-the-finished-work-of-christ-must-still-be-received/Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/why-easter-moves-the-computus-controversy-and-the-synod-of-whitby/Easter moves because a Nicene rule ties it to the moon, and rival tables for predicting that moon divided the church until Whitby in 664.Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/why-easter-moves-the-computus-controversy-and-the-synod-of-whitby/Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/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...Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/penance-and-the-sufficiency-of-christ/Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/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...Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/three-ways-people-relate-to-god/Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/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...Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/the-renaissance-made-the-reformation-inevitable/Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/teaching-skbs8Ux4vTI.htmlThe Renaissance was not just about paintings and sculptures. It was a rebirth of knowledge.Videohttps://theologyinfocus.org/teaching-skbs8Ux4vTI.htmlFri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/teaching-xmhayqXWqcI.htmlShorthttps://theologyinfocus.org/teaching-xmhayqXWqcI.htmlMon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/blog/already-judged-why-john-317-18-cannot-be-reduced-to-a-do-better-gospel/John 3:17-18 does not introduce divine judgment; it presupposes it. That distinction reshapes how the gospel should be preached.Articlehttps://theologyinfocus.org/blog/already-judged-why-john-317-18-cannot-be-reduced-to-a-do-better-gospel/Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theologyinfocus.org/teaching-0_yM4daUys4.htmlShorthttps://theologyinfocus.org/teaching-0_yM4daUys4.htmlFri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000