The Truth Project
Centers on the good news of Jesus, the kingdom of God, reconciliation, rescue, and the announcement of God's redemptive purpose.
In this generation, we must combat many misconceptions about the gospel. It is not about getting “saved” so we go to heaven when we die. It is about entering a reconciled relationship with the Father, ourselves, and others and receiving...
The church that is going to make Jesus’ love believable is not just a church that moves in signs and wonders and bold gospel preaching and care for the poor. It is the church that has truly become a family. In a family, our mistakes and...
Do we see scary, messy sinners who deserve hatred and punishment, or do we see sons and daughters for whom the Father sacrificed everything to love and restore? Only when we see the latter can we be trusted to sit down with someone in a...
Luke 15:17; Rom. 2:4
When we preach, on the one hand, that God loves sinners and sent Jesus to die for them, and, on the other, that He is also the merciless Tormentor of all who would have the effrontery to slight Him, this must sound, to all but the...
1 John 2:12
Focus on modern evangelical teaching has changed from God’s loss (coin, sheep, son) to man’s loss (hell). If the rebel is not recovered, God suffers loss. God saves the sinner not for the sinner’s sake but for His own. Paul said in Titus...
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The matter has been well distilled by Robert K. Johnson, professor of theology and culture at Fuller Theological Seminary: “How can I formulate a biblically informed perspective on hell ‘that is morally consistent with the character of God...
OUR MARVELOUS INHERITANCE ...through his Incarnation, Christ reconciled us to Abba, he united and reunited humanity and Trinity in his Person. On the Cross, Christ tore open the curtain for all Abba’s children, granting everyone...
Calvinism (500 years ago) started with Augustine, 1600 years ago. Arminianism started 500 years ago. Greek Orthodox (Trinitarians) separated from the western church in 964 AD. CalvinismPredestination as to who is in Christ. Vast majority...
2 Cor. 3:18; 2 Pet. 1:4
THE FULLNESS OF HUMANITY: DIVINIZATION As I reviewed Wesley’s case with my mentor Ron Dart, he reminded me of a fourth aspect of our Christian inheritance: “deification” (also known as “divinization” or “theosis”). What is included in the...
Luke 2:10
The Salvation of all men! Sounds too good to be true, right? I mean, the Gospel (Good News) is already too good to be true; God took our fallen nature upon Himself and became sin so that we would be the righteousness of God! He didn’t just...
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John 10:10
Video/Audio Viewing Jesus in all Scripture, and viewing Old Testament Scripture in the light of Jesus. 11:33 Old Testament violence When reading the Old Testament, Is this about Jesus, or is this about us? 14:12 Scripture is not the Word...
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Mark 7:13; Acts 3:21
SECTION 5: THE PAGAN ORIGINS OF ETERNAL TORMENT — HOW HELL ENTERED THE CHURCH“The doctrines of men have made the Word of God of none effect.” — Mark 7:13If eternal conscious torment is not what the original languages teach...And if Jesus...
1 Tim. 4:10; Rom. 5:18; Col. 1:20; 1 Cor. 15:22-28; John 12:32; Rev. 21:5
Setting the Record Straight on Hell, Judgment, and the Early Church (For the pastor who told me to “do more research”)The other day, a pastor told me I needed to “do my research”—because, according to him, only one early church school...