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Devotional reflections and long-form theological articles written by Greenville Seminary faculty, offering accessible insights on Scripture, doctrine, and Christian living.

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Where Do Christians Go When They Die?

Surveys the Bible’s teaching on heaven, the bodily resurrection, and the new heavens and earth: God’s transcendent presence, transformed bodies, and a restored creation.

Moses’s Life Is a Movie Trailer

Reads Moses’ birth narrative as a typological preview of Israel’s exodus and of Christ’s redemptive work, tracing a recurring water-to-mountain pattern from Genesis to Exodus and Hebrews.

The Catholic Puritan

Survey of John Owen’s teaching on eternal generation: the Son eternally receives the divine essence from the Father, grounding Trinitarian order and the work of salvation.

What Is the Church and Why Is It Necessary?

Affirms the visible and invisible church are one: the visible church is God’s covenant society where we hear the gospel and are called to faith. Cites WLC/WCF and Scripture.

The Exodus Prefigured

Examines Genesis 12–15, portraying Abraham’s call and departures (Ur, Egypt) as an ‘exodus’ that foreshadows Israel’s deliverance and reveals Yahweh as the God of the exodus.

Is God Judging the World?

Considers whether modern crises are God’s judgment through the lens of Revelation. Argues Revelation depicts limited, warning judgments that call the world to repentance and faith.

Augustine of Hippo

Overview of Augustine’s ministry in Hippo, his Confessions and The City of God, and pastoral counsel on suffering, providence, and caring for abuse survivors.

Appropriating the Means of Grace

The church’s means of grace—preaching, sacraments, and prayer—are instruments by which believers, through faith and preparation, receive and grow in salvation.

Presbyterian Theology

Concise overview of Presbyterian theology (Westminster): God’s sovereignty, covenant theology, election, justification by faith, two sacraments, and elder-led church government.

The Trinity and Christian Devotion

Argues the Trinity is the atmosphere of Christian life: Father, Son, and Spirit work salvation, dwell in the church, and shape personal and communal devotion.

The Catholic Puritan: John Owen on Eternal Generation

Eternal generation: the Son is eternally begotten yet co-equal with the Father, grounding Christ’s deity, personhood, and mediatorial work. Owen affirms orthodox Trinitarian order.

For Whom Did Christ Die?

A concise defense of limited atonement: Christ’s death was intended specifically for the elect as the unified work of the Triune God, while the gospel is nevertheless offered to all.

Expiation and Propitiation

Explains how Old Testament sacrifices foreshadow Christ’s cross, showing his death as true expiation (cleansing) and propitiation (appeasing God’s wrath).

Why Pastors Should Engage Augustine of Hippo

Survey of Augustine’s Hippo ministry and major works (Confessions, The City of God), highlighting his pastoral counsel on suffering, sin, providence, and God’s sovereign grace.

And I Shall Dwell in the House of the Lord Forever

Examines David’s longing to ‘dwell in the house of the LORD’—a theology rooted in Scripture and temple imagery, fulfilled in Christ’s atonement and believers’ union with Him.

The Day of Atonement and Our Need for a High Priest

Explains Leviticus 16’s Day of Atonement—blood, the high priest, and two goats—as an elaborate sin offering that typologically points to Christ’s penal substitution and priestly atonement.

The Day of Atonement

Explains that Israel’s sacrifices foreshadow Jesus, the God‑man, whose penal substitutionary death (Isaiah 53) as eternal High Priest fully atones and secures sinners’ salvation.

The House of God

Shows the tabernacle as God’s dwelling mirroring creation, a sacrificial way to God that foreshadows Christ’s atonement and the church as God’s dwelling until the new creation.

Persecution and Prayer

Reflection on Acts 4: persecuted Christians pray, affirming God’s sovereignty, judgment, predestination, and active work. A call to pray for boldness.

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