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Jude combines a strong promise with a serious charge: those loved by God are kept for Christ — and are to keep themselves in God's love. How do these fit together?
What does it mean to be grafted into the olive tree or broken off from it? Romans 11 combines God's faithfulness to Israel with a serious warning to Gentile Christians.
Assurance of eternal life and fellowship with God belong together. First John shows how truth, love and obedience are to shape believers' lives.
Hebrews 6,11 connects diligence with the full assurance of hope. Do we earn salvation through perseverance — or learn to live from God's promise?
“Faith without works is dead.” But does James mean this faith never existed? Michael A. Eaton offers another approach: James calls Christians to make their faith effective for other people.
The New Testament does not sound like a single voice. It narrates, teaches, exhorts and comforts in different situations. This makes it especially worthwhile to examine the connections that hold its books together.
If God appoints governing authorities, may a Christian influence their composition by voting? The question deserves careful examination — both of the biblical text and of the argument's logic.
False teachers promise freedom and lead into new bondage. Second Peter 2,20–22 describes this relapse in striking images. How can we take the warning seriously without turning God's gift of grace into a reward for consistent performance?
Paul urges the Thessalonians to hold to his oral and written teaching. Does that already prove that every tradition later called apostolic can be reliably identified? The question of the “restrainer” in 2 Thessalonians 2 illustrates the problem.
Jesus gives eternal life. At the same time, the New Testament calls Christians to faithfulness, perseverance and vigilance. How do these statements fit together without turning the gift into payment for performance?
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God is immortal. Jesus is God. Jesus died on the cross. Is that contradictory? The answer requires a distinction that leads to the heart of Christian faith: who is Jesus — and in which nature does he suffer death?
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“Scripture alone leads to ever more divisions. A binding teaching authority, by contrast, creates unity.” At first this argument seems plausible. But what is being compared — and what would the observed unity actually prove?
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How do eternal life, sanctification and discipleship fit together? A biblical grounding of the Free Grace perspective with fair responses to the strongest objections.
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The Father is God, the Son is God, the Holy Spirit is God — yet there is only one God. Does this produce a logical contradiction? A convincing answer must be more precise than simply appealing to mystery.
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Good Bible teachers are a gift. Problems arise when gratitude turns into allegiance to a camp: the teacher's name then determines whether we listen to an argument at all.
Did Matthew cite an incorrect source in Matthew 27:9–10?
Matthew names Jeremiah, yet the thirty silver coins immediately recall Zechariah. Did the evangelist confuse the source—or combine several prophetic texts?
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Can atheists have knowledge? Why the crucial question concerns the grounding of our capacity to know — and how a Christian argument about this becomes more precise.
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What does “proven” mean in science? This article distinguishes biological findings, epistemology and naturalism and sharpens Christian argumentation.
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The New Testament distinguishes Jesus from the Father while confessing his full deity. Especially significant are passages applying words about JHWH, Israel's God, to Jesus. How far does this argument reach?
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In conversations about Islam, Quranic verses are often linked to modern scientific findings. Do such correspondences prove the Quran's divine origin? To assess that, we must examine more than an impressive pairing of verse and image.
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Young people need room for their questions and good reasons to trust Christ. A winter retreat reminded me how closely spiritual encouragement and a clear defense of the faith belong together.
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Three lectures in Ladenburg connected questions about truth, God's nature and the gospel. The aim was to equip Christians for conversations with Muslims and explain the good news of Jesus clearly.
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A well-attended seminar on Islam showed the strong interest in clear guidance and sound answers. This involves more than collecting objections: we want to understand people and bear witness to Christ to them.
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An evening at a teen retreat offered an opportunity to explain the good news of Jesus and then address personal questions.
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I sought freedom and fell into dependency. This personal account tells of my childhood, my search and how I came to know Jesus Christ as Savior.
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The first GPS youth worship service, organized by FeG Wienhausen, addressed a question that matters to many young people: what is freedom?
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The 27th computer science conference in Krelingen offered much to reflect on concerning creation, biological information and scientific knowledge. I became especially interested in how observation and worldview interpretation relate.
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Three ministry events in Würzburg repeatedly led to the same question: on what can a person base their hope before God? The focus was on Christ, his grace and the certainty of his promise.
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