Selected Topics

Essays and audio lectures that are organized by topic. From the subject of "Fire" to "Inspiration" you will find many interesting subjects here. For lectures and articles on individual books of the Bible, drag your cursor to the upper left hand corner of the screen over either "Old Testament" or "New Testament."

Bible

  Old Testament

• Scary God or Scary People?
• Scary God or Scary People? - video
• God Did It?
• God Comes to Kill
• "God, you scare me sometimes!" - video
• God, why so many rules?
• "The LORD sent an evil spirit"

  New Testament

• Reading Paul in a New Paradigm
• Putting the Christ Back into Christianity - Video
• Forgiveness

Fire in the Bible

• God is a Consuming Fire
• Other Fire Resources

Justice, Wrath, Judgment

• God's Style of Justice - Video
• God's Style of Justice - Article 
• God's Wrath
• The Wrath of the Lamb - Audio
• Judged by the Good News
• God's Judgment on Haiti?

Cosmic Conflict Theology

• The Real 'Mother of all Wars' 
• The Christians and Their Spineless God 
• Job and the Cosmic Conflict 
• Creation vs. Evolution and the Character of God

Revelation

• Introduction
• Vantage Point
• Revelation 12: Center of the Chiasm
• Revelation 12: Who is God?
• Revelation 12: War in Heaven
• Revelation 1: Our Mission
• A Book about Healing, Not Destruction 
• Revelation 1: Saved by Blood or Saved by Jesus? 
• Temple Imagery in Revelation
• Revelation 2-4: The Seven Churches
• Revelation 4-5: Who is Worthy?
• Revelation 4-5: Challenge to the Throne
• Revelation 6: Four Horses, One Rider
• Revelation 6: The 5th Seal - Theodicy 101
• Revelation 8: Silence in Heaven
• Revelation 8: Silence in Heaven, Part 2
• Revelation 6: Hide Us From Your Face
• Revelation 7: Center of the Throne
• Revelation 6: The Wrath of the Lamb
• Numerical Patterns in Revelation
• Revelation 8-9: King of the Locusts
• Revelation 11: One-Tenth and Seven Thousand
• Revelation 16: The Seven Bowls of God's Wrath
• Revelation 17: John is Appalled
• Revelation 17: Embrace of Church and State
• Revelation 17: Divine vs. Demonic Identity
• Revelation 17: The Devil is in the Details
• Revelation 17: War Theme and Harmagedon
• Revelation 18: Who Destroys Babylon?
• Revelation 18: Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely
• Revelation 19: Who Is the Audience?
• Revelation 19: Whose Blood is on Jesus' Robe?
• Revelation 19: Demonic Self-Destruction
• Revelation 20: Why "must" Satan be let out?
• The Millennium: Golden Age or Wasteland?
• Revelation 20: How is Satan Destroyed?
• Revelation 20: The Great White Throne
• Revelation 20: Timeline and Plot Retrospective
• Revelation 20: The Great White Throne
• Nietzsche and the Human Need for Divine Retribution
• Revelation 21: The Meaning of the New City
• Revelation 21 and 22: More Than Paradise Regained
• Revelation 22: The Healing River
• Revelation 22: The Message of the Bible in One Word
• Revelation 22: The Ending of Endings: Silence in Heaven

Atonement

• The Day the Creatures Killed Their Creator - article
• The Day the Creatures Killed Their Creator - video

Kingdom Living

• "God's Kingdom vs. Transformers"
• "I give you a new command..."
• Looking at God for First Time 
• God and Hachiko
• "I just want to study!"
• Phone call from God
• The Enemy Enigma
• A Woman's Place is in the...?
• Our Methods Reveal Our God
• The Deadly Christmas Vaccine

Sin

• Imposed Penalty or Natural Consequence?
• What is Sin? 

Inspiration

• Inspired Men or Inspired Pen? - Video
• Inspired Men or Inspired Pen? - Article 
• The Bible in Translation - Video and Audio
• The Jesus Legend - Audio
• Who's Your Authority?
• A response to Bart Ehrman's challenge of Biblical inspiration

Extra's

• Servant to the World
• Additional Lectures

Last Updated Wednesday, August 31 2011|