A Biblical Case Against the Deaconess
Editor’s note: Theology for Everyone (TfE) recognizes that churches and denominations hold different views on the deaconate. We also recognize that these are intramural debates among those who embrace the…
Ray Heiple
How Does God Harden Hearts?
Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens (Rom. 9:18). In the well-known story of Israel’s exodus from Egypt, God is described as hardening…
The Absolute Sovereignty of God Over All
For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were…
The Resurrection: Historical Reliability
He is not here; for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. Mat. 28:6NKJV Very early in the second century, a Roman historian…
Justification and Assurance
These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life… 1 John 5:13aNKJ The…
Justification and Martin Luther
It was a hot, humid afternoon in July, 1505. A brilliant young law student was traveling near the German village of Stotternheim in what was then Electoral Saxony. Having recently…
The Ordo Salutis: Perseverance
The doctrine of the perseverance of the saints means if a person is truly saved he cannot lose his salvation. Roman Catholicism and some strands of Protestant theology, such as…
The Ten Commandments: The Eighth
…he was a thief, and had the money box; and he used to take what was put in it. John 12:6bNKJV We often consider stealing to be a minor sin. …