1 Corinthians 2:2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. At a recent conference, after my message on “the Covenant history of Israel and how that affected the ministry of Jesus”, someone approached me with some questions about my message. They asked me about Covenant Theology,…
“Many Christians deep down believe that God is angry, vengeful, full of wrath and hard to please. But are they right? ” – Brian Zahnd In the Western Evangelical church, there is no character of the Godhead that has been more misrepresented than the Father. We all love the person of Jesus Christ with his…
“One of the main reasons, I suppose, why the obvious way of reading the Olivet Discourse [Matthew 24, Luke 21, Mark 13] has been ignored for so long must be the fact that in a good deal of Christian theology, the fall of Jerusalem has had no theological significance.” – NT Wright In one of…
“The Law preacher thinks Titus 2:11-14 discredits the message of Grace, but it only exposes their own unbelief in Jesus Christ.” – Brook Potter The true god of the modern Pharisee, is sin. There is nothing that can be said to get them to believe in the Jesus of the Scriptures, and to forsake their…
The greatest challenge for the Western Church is the Greco-Roman mindset, that we try to filter all of Scripture through to get our understanding. The problem is the Scriptures were not written with a Greco-Roman mindset, they were written with a Jewish mindset. This single distinction has created a world view, and many theological ideas,…
“Humanity is already ‘saved’ in principle. We individuals have to appropriate that salvation. But the really tough work – the bit we could not have done for ourselves–has been done for us.” – CS Lewis The hardest transition for most western Christians to make, is the transition from the Greco-Roman mindset to the Jewish mindset…
“Some leaders are born women!” – Geraldine Ferraro An area of biblical interpretation that we have often missed, is the importance of biblical genre. The bible has several genres or styles of writing within it, and each style requires that we approach the text differently in our understanding. For instance, we would read a biography,…
“I am not waiting for a move of God, I am a Move of God” – William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army. Around the beginning of every new year, the churches ring out prophesies about what to expect for the coming twelve months. They sometimes use some numerology to explain how the numbers of…
“The Bible did not produce the Church, but the Church produced the Bible.” – Eastern Orthodox proverb. In recent weeks I’ve come under fire for my comments concerning the Bible. Many of my Religious and Western Evangelical friends are in shock to learn that I do not hold their Protestant tradition of the Bible as…
Question Hey Brook, I recently read an article by an author who listed his top 4 reasons why the message of Inclusion isn’t real. Do you care to comment on these points? The many warnings in Scripture about the importance of repentance, belief, calling on the name of the Lord, and the present and eternal…
Paul White is an internationally recognized author, teacher, and conference speaker. Paul has pastored, taught in several churches, and conferences throughout his ministry years. Seeing believers experience an awakening to the goodness of God’s grace through Jesus is Paul’s greatest passion. He is a messenger of hope and grace for the world, encouraging believers to…
In my homeland of Trinidad and Tobago, we have an expression that is used to describe a social gathering. The rumours say it was derived from the second World War period, when American and British troops were stationed on our twin islands. The American troops had a nickname for the Brits, known as Limeys. And,…