THE END IS NEAR! Most of us are familiar with examples of the historicist approach. This is an easily abused approach to the book of Revelation. According to historicists, the end is near and we can see this by looking…
Revelation yields tremendous truths for living and for a Christian worldview. Like some other parts of Scripture, it does not yield these truths apart from careful study. Taken on its own, Revelation is a challenge for Christian readers. They often…
Everyone can see how prevalent video games have become in the lives of young people, and even in the lives of those who are not so young. Kevin Schut, a professor at Trinity Western University wrote this book to help…
When we think of “I am” in the Gospel of John, we generally think of expressions with a predicate after the “I am,” like “I am the good shepherd.” In that sentence, “the good shepherd” is the predicate that completes…
I have been reading through Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel this year for Bible reading and have noticed that God tells each one of them that the people will not listen to them (and even resist them). In a recent Bible…
The parable of the mustard seed is a favorite parable of Jesus. Jesus says that it is a parable about the kingdom of God (Mark 4:30). The mustard seed is presented as a tiny seed that grows into a great…
Should I Become More or Less Involved with My Teen? In chapter 7, Huggins addresses the subject of how to respond to conflicts with our teens. Like many of you, I do not always want to admit that conflict is…
Teens as Free Agents with Choices to Make One of the challenges that I received from reading Parenting Adolescents was in chapter 10, “Responding to the Purposes in an Adolescent’s Heart.” In this chapter, he says that one of the…
Kevin Huggins, a biblical counselor and minister, wrote this book in 1989 to help parents of teenagers. I found this book, because another book about parenting teenagers recommended it. I read most of the book over the course of a…
The Spiritual Blindness of a Wealthy Church The letter to Laodicea provides a challenging conclusion to the seven letters. It has a distinct resemblance to God’s word through Old Testament prophets like Isaiah. The people of God at Laodicea need…