A guide to studying key words in biblical passages, without Greek or Hebrew skills
Category Archive: Short Articles
A report on the first conference of The Aotearoa New Zealand Evangelistic Research Association
||Short Article|| When people look back over the twenty-first century, they will see that fellowships of pastor-theologians played a vital role in leading churches successfully through the challenges of our century.
||PhD Abstract|| A summary of my 2024 doctoral thesis, titled: “Preserving Perseverance: John Owen’s Reception within the History of Reformed Interpretation of Hebrews 6:4–6.”
||Personal Reflection|| One of the earliest ministries I was part of was in the youth unit of a prison. These are some of the memories I have of that time, and some of the lessons I learned.
Excluding others is frowned upon in New Zealand. Our Christianity runs the risk of amplifying the biblical theme of welcome and inclusion so much that other themes are drowned out. In the Gospel of Luke, sin remains a barrier to our access to God—but one that can certainly be crossed.
||Conference Talk|| This paper reviews the interpretation of Heb 6:4–6 by early Reformed interpreters (1500s–1700s) with respect to the identification of the people described therein.
||Short Article|| An observation of the way that one progressive Christian thinker has articulated a doctrine of sin, and a demonstration of how his presentation fails to account for how sin is an offense against God.
||Essay Summary|| A summary of David Bebbington’s 1994 essay “Evangelicalism in its Settings: The British and American Movements since 1940.”
||Short Article|| Human beings are more than mammals; and better than brainy beasts. We are made with divine dignity and regal responsibility, and on that basis we have too much self-worth to merely reflect what we see on the Discovery Channel—we must reflect our God.