Crumbs from the Master's Table

In John 9, we read of the healing of a man born blind. We also read of the opposition of the Jewish leadership to Jesus, and of the fear of ...

Have you ever read Mark 2:18–22 and scratched your head wondering what on earth Jesus is talking about? I have. Repeatedly. What do his illu...

What follows is my all too brief attempt to trace out the kingdom of God theme as it unfolds in Scripture. Since this was produced for a gra...

"The kingdom is a conception which must of necessity remain unintelligible and unacceptable to every view of the world and of religion ...

Geerhardus Vos answers why Jesus uses the language "kingdom of God" (when it was not used in the OT) and why we might be prone to ...

How shall we render   ἐντὸς ὑμῶν   in Lk. 17:21? The Holman Christian Standard Bible translates the phrase: “The kingdom of God is among y...

"What is called 'American civil religion' is the product of a failure of ecclesiology." —Peter J. Leithart, The Kingdom ...

In his stimulating book, The Bible and the Future , Anthony Hoekema, apparently following Karl Ludwig Schmidt ( TDNT 1:589), refers his re...

"[T]he central theme of Scripture is the kingdom of God defined simply as God's people in God's place under God's rule....

The phrase "kingdom of God" or "kingdom of heaven" is a difficult one to define. This is because the Bible never quite p...

Calvin: The chief purpose of this letter is to confirm Timothy both in the faith of the Gospel and in his pure and constant preaching of i...

"There is nothing in the NT quite like the current infatuation for expressions like 'kingdom ethics,' in which 'kingdom...

It is well known and often pointed out that Luke 19:10 states the great theme (or at least one of the great themes) of Luke's account of...

"Though Christians often bemoan the separation of church and state and claim angrily that the separation of church and state is not in ...

In 2 Kings 20, Hezekiah falls ill and draws near to death. Isaiah the prophet tells him to set his house in order to prepare for his demise ...

Oh that blessed "but now" of Rom. 3:21! Here's Doug Moo's redemptive-historical understanding of it, surely right on: The...

How important is Christian conversation? And in asking this question, I’m not asking with the emphasis on conversation . That is, I’m not as...

Another Lutheran prayer, this time for God's will to guide and govern ours: Give us grace to willingly acknowledge and bear all sicknes...

Another Lutheran prayer, this one for the coming of God's kingdom: Help us to remain so steadfast that your coming kingdom will include...

The Lord Jesus teaches us this about kingdoms (and countries and congresses and so on): "If a kingdom is divided against itself, that k...