Two Sermons from the Gospel of John

 Gal. 5:3 And I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is under obligation to keep the whole Law.  Not only will Christ not allow himself to be joined to human self-righteousness, but the Apostle makes sure everyone understands that there is no such thing as partial righteousness in the law: one either follows the whole of

The Gobbler (don’t ask, we won’t tell) pointed out to me today the ironic words of J. Gresham Machen in his notes on Galatians…ironic because they appear under the subtitle “Plain Meaning” as I recall. Please don’t ask me where Machen absorbed these radical Anabaptistic, post-modern, discrete, separated from the space-time continuum propositions, but it is truly tragic, isn’t it?

Norman Geisler has written two open letters to Mike Licona regarding some assertions Licona makes in his massive tome “On the Resurrection of Jesus”. Specifically, why Licona seems to take Matthew 27:52–53 as ahistorical, seeing it as “poetic” or “legend.” While I have Licona’s new book, it is not at the top of my priority reading list at the moment,