Rebecca Stark is the author of The Good Portion: Godthe second title in The Good Portion series.

The Good Portion: God explores what Scripture teaches about God in hopes that readers will see his perfection, worth, magnificence, and beauty as they study his triune nature, infinite attributes, and wondrous works. 

                     

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Saturday
Apr102021

Selected Reading, April 10, 2021

 

You should read these this weekend. 

Christ

Jesus Is the God-Man, not the Flawed Man
Christianity Today solicited a piece of polite pushback to a misguided article about Jesus and doubt that is  published previously:

“In a recent article, A. J. Swodoba and Nijay K. Gupta argue that one (consistent) aspect of Jesus’s human experience was doubt … . 

We feel, however, that our brothers have come to the wrong conclusion(s) on these tough questions about Jesus’s humanity.” 

What Do You Mean When You Talk about Christ in the Old Testament?
Nancy Guthrie shares a list of ways that the Old Testament points to and prepares us for Christ. It’s intended to be “lay-person friendly,” and “for those for whom the idea of seeing Christ in the Old Testament is a new concept.”

Scripture

What’s the truth about John’s gospel?
Esther O’Reilly makes the case for reliability of John’s gospel—and you don’t have to be a scholar to understand: “Either [the gospel’s] writer unaccountably invented the modern realistic novel fifteen centuries early, or else we are dealing here not with fiction, but with history.”

Biography

Bo Giertz - True Pastor and Insightful Writer
If you’ve read Hammer of God and liked it (I did!), you might enjoy Simonetta Carr’s biographical sketch of its Swedish author Bo Giertz.

Thursday
Apr082021

Theological Term of the Week: Sabellius

Sabellius
An obscure early third century Roman theologian who taught that God is only one person who acts out three different roles.1 

  • From 2000 Years of Christ’s Power by N. H. Needham:
  • Sabellius taught that God is only one person, Who acts now as Father in creating the universe, now as Son in redeeming sinners, now as the Holy Spirit in sanctifying believers. These are simply three different roles acted out by one divine person, much as one human person might be a husband, a father, and a bus-driver. Sabellianism of one sort or another was quite popular in the early Church, because it offered a way of believing in the deity of Christ while preserving the oneness of God.  

 

Learn more:

  1. Philip Schaff: Sabellianism
  2. Got Questions: What is Sabellianism?
  3. Theopedia: Modalism

 

Related terms:

 

Filed under Christian History

1From 2000 Years of Christ’s Power by N. R. Needham.


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Sunday
Apr042021

Sunday's Hymn: Jesus Christ Is Risen Today

 

 

Jesus Christ is risen today, Alleluia!
Our triumphant holy day, Alleluia!
Who did once, upon the cross, Alleluia!
Suffer to redeem our loss. Alleluia!

Hymns of praise then let us sing, Alleluia!
Unto Christ our heav’nly King, Alleluia!
Who endured the cross and grave, Alleluia!
Sinners to redeem and save. Alleluia!

But the pains which he endured, Alleluia!
Our salvation have procured; Alleluia!
Now above the sky he’s King, Alleluia!
Where the angels ever sing. Alleluia!

Sing we to our God above, Alleluia!
Praise eternal as his love; Alleluia!
Praise him, all ye heavenly host, Alleluia!
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Alleluia!

—14th century Bohemian carol, 4th verse by Charles Wesley

 

Other hymns of worship songs for this Sunday: