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Jan 10, 2025 | 
christianitytoday.com | Andrew Wilson
They're part of the Bible's original text, and frequently essential to understanding it. Illustration by Mallory Rentsch Tlapek / Source Images: Getty, UnsplashSome passages of Scripture get ghosted. Occasionally, you see this happen when you ask someone to read a particular chapter aloud. The words are all right there on the page. But the person reading them literally acts as if some are simply invisible. I am not talking about the portions that we generally avoid reading aloud.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
es.christianitytoday.com | Andrew Wilson
Una de las historias más conocidas de las Escrituras es también una de las más desconcertantes. Casi todo el mundo en Occidente ha oído el modismo "la escritura en la pared", ya sea que hayan leído el libro de Daniel o no. Mucha gente utiliza la frase en el lenguaje común. Los visitantes de la Galería Nacional de Londres pueden contemplar el cuadro de Rembrandt, El festín de Belsasar, con su representación de un rey aterrorizado y una escritura milagrosa.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
christianitytoday.com | Andrew Wilson
The four-word warning is outwardly simple. But layers of meaning lurk under the surface. One of the most well-known stories in Scripture is also one of the most baffling. Nearly everyone in the Western world has heard the phrase "the writing on the wall," whether or not they have ever read Daniel 5. Many people use the phrase in ordinary speech.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
christianitytoday.com | Andrew Wilson
We need a theology of apology. Apologizing sounds straightforward, at least in theory. You do something wrong (sin); you feel bad about it (regret); you admit it and accept responsibility (confession); you say sorry to the person or people you have wronged, including God (repentance); and you take appropriate steps to make things right (restitution). Many apologies take exactly this form. But often they are more complicated. It is possible to apologize without admitting fault or feeling regret.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
christianitytoday.com | Andrew Wilson
If you were asked to summarize the gospel in one sentence, which passage might you choose? My guess is any shortlist of candidates would have to include 1 Corinthians 15:3-5.
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
christianitytoday.com | Andrew Wilson
We talk about enemies less than we used to. It may not feel that way. The amount of infighting, mudslinging, name-calling, and downright nastiness in public discourse today, including within the church, is both tragic and self-defeating. Slander and snark have been normalized in many circles. So thinking and talking about enemies in these fractious and divided times might sound like the last thing we need. Yet the opposite is true for two reasons.
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Sep 18, 2023 | 
theaquilareport.com | Andrew Wilson
The modern West is post-Christian in the same sort of way that it is postindustrial. Neither Christianity nor industrialization have been truly left behind, for all that our use of “post-” language implies they have. Their cultural footprints remain enormous, even when the churches and factories have been turned into flats.
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Sep 10, 2023 | 
crossway.org | Andrew Wilson |Carl R. Trueman
Self-EvidentIn late June of 1776, Thomas Jefferson wrote to Benjamin Franklin asking him to edit the Declaration of Independence in time for a meeting the following morning. “The inclosed paper has been read and with some small alterations approved of by the committee,” Jefferson explained. “Will Doctr. Franklyn be so good as to peruse it and suggest such alterations as his more enlarged view of the subject will dictate?”1 Franklin was at home recovering from gout and made very few changes.
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Sep 4, 2023 | 
plough.com | Andrew Wilson
In June 1776, Thomas Jefferson wrote to Benjamin Franklin asking him to edit the Declaration of Independence in time for a meeting the following morning. “The inclosed paper has been read and with some small alterations approved of by the committee,” Jefferson explained. “Will Doctr. Franklyn be so good as to peruse it and suggest such alterations as his more enlarged view of the subject will dictate?”footnoteFranklin was at home recovering from gout and made very few changes.
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Sep 4, 2023 | 
crossway.org | Andrew Wilson |Lemuel Haynes
Ten Key EventsWhenever I tell my American friends that my new book is about 1776 and the way it created the post-Christian West, their initial reaction is invariably one of surprise. Why is an English pastor writing a book about the American Revolution? And how could the War of Independence possibly be blamed for post-Christianity?
