Tag: Christianity

DOMA Revisited

“U.S. District Judge Barbara Jones ruled Wednesday that DOMA’s efforts to define marriage ‘intrude upon the states’ business of regulating domestic relations.’ Jones explained that DOMA fails because it tries to re-examine states’ decisions concerning same-sex marriage, Reuters reported.” (from http://www.christianpost.com/news/nyc-judge-rules-doma-unconstitutional-and-an-intrusion-of-states-affairs-76245/)…

Peter’s Vision of The End

Add To Cart Price $12.95 ISBN: 978-0-9820385-9-8 Publisher: Pilgrim Platform Copyright: ©2012 by Phillip A. Ross 195 pages 195 pages by Phillip A. Ross Introduction A couple of years ago a friend asked me about my interpretation of 2 Peter…

Peter’s Vision of Christ’s Purpose

Add To Cart Price $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-9820385-9-8 Publisher: Pilgrim Platform Copyright: ©2011 by Phillip A. Ross 317 pages Introduction Reading Peter’s letters is quite different than reading Paul’s. Paul was a scholar trained in biblical academics, which involves focusing in…

The True Mystery of The Mystical Presence

Add To Cart Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-9839046-0-1 Publisher: Pilgrim Platform Copyright: ©2011 “Nevin’s Mystical Presence fell into my hands quite providentially at the most impressionable stage of my theological formation, and it made a lasting impression on me. Nevin’s burden…

The Orthodoxy of Rob Bell

First let me respond to the recent Richard Mouw article: The Orthodoxy of Rob Bell, Christian Post, March 20, 1011. He begins by saying that he agrees with Bell, and he does. But the fact that he agrees with Bell…

Glenn Beck & Bible Study

On February 17, 2011, Glenn Beck presented a Bible study showing the parallels between the “biblical view of the end times” and the view of the Islamic Twelvers. Why is this important? Because the Twelvers count in their number Mahmoud…

Covenant Description

I have long found the various teachings about God’s covenant to be unnecessarily confusing. For instance, various people have identified the Covenant of Redemption, the Covenant of Grace, the covenant of freedom, and covenant of bondage (also called the covenant…

The Bible You’ve Never Read

Have you been frustrated in your study of the Bible? Does it seem like you’re getting bits and pieces, but the big picture is just out of focus? Gary DeMar talks to filmmaker Darren Doane about an exciting new project…

Christian Context: Rejecting Christ

Richard Hughes continues his series of articles in the Huffington Post, The Christian Right in Context: Building a Christian America, with a clear statement of his bias. By saying that “There have always been Christians who have resisted religious pluralism…