Guy Waters on the Christian's Task

“Our task as Christians is not to try through social action or labors or endeavors of one sort or the other to usher in the new heavens and the new earth ourselves. We’re not the agents of that. That’s something God’s going . . . Continue reading →

The Presiding Bishop’s Over-Realized Eschatology

In her opening address to 2009 convention of the Episcopal Church USA (ECUSA) the most reverend the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding Bishop of the ECUSA, declared, The crisis of this moment has several parts, and like Episcopalians, particularly the ones . . . Continue reading →

Free Audio: Horton and Godfrey on the "Last Days"

Thanks to pastor Christopher Gordon of Lynden URC for posting these lectures by my colleagues at Westminster Seminary California. Update 25 Dec 2008 The format for the files has been been converted to MP3. #1: Dr. W. Robert Godfrey When Will These . . . Continue reading →

Dismantling the "Rapture"

The “Christless Christianity” series has been brilliant and this week’s installment is no exception. Our dispensational friends tell us that they read the bible “literally” and that amillennialists “spiritualize” Scripture. This might be compelling if we never actually looked at any passages. A . . . Continue reading →

The Israel of God

Introduction There is much more to “end-times” or ultimate things (Eschatology) than what we say actually happens in the last days. We say what we do about eschatology because of what we think God is doing in history. At the center of . . . Continue reading →