Christ, the New Moses, and the Second Passover Mark’s account of the “Second Passover” in Christ’s ministry is rich with details from the Gospels, weaving together Christ’s healing of the paralytic at Bethesda, the calling of the Twelve, the sending of the Seventy, and the moral teaching
The First Passover of Christ’s Ministry With the Passover in Jerusalem, the public ministry of Jesus truly bursts onto the world stage. The Lord’s zeal for the Temple, His miracles, His profound conversations with Nicodemus and the Samaritan woman, and His growing fame throughout Galilee - these are
The Ministry of Messiah Begins The beginning of Our Lord’s public ministry is one of the most thrilling moments in all salvation history. The baptism in the Jordan, the gathering of the first disciples, the signs and wonders worked in Galilee; here, the long-awaited Messiah steps out from the
Favor With God and Man Few passages in Scripture better capture the hidden years of Our Lord’s earthly life than Luke 2:52: “And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.” Mark’s fourth chapter, Favor With God and Man, presents a detailed,
The Word Becomes Flesh: Few moments in all of human history are as awe-inspiring and deeply meaningful as the Incarnation - the Word becoming flesh and dwelling among us. Mark’s third chapter, The Word Becomes Flesh, walks us through the details of Christ’s birth, drawing from the Gospel
Messiah Immanuel: It is a rare thing, in modern Christianity, to find someone as eager as Mark to honor the Messiah in His true biblical context. In Chapter 2 of Building on Bedrock, Mark traces the hopes of Israel for the coming Immanuel, the “God with us” foretold by the
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Sola Scriptura collapses into Sola Spiritu, which collapses into Sola Ego.
Building on the True Bedrock: A Catholic Apologetic Response to Mark Bullen’s “Building on Bedrock,” Chapter 1 In his first chapter, Mark Bullen asks his readers to return to the “bedrock” of Christianity - a noble and sincere goal. He wants the foundation of faith to be nothing but
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I once held with absolute confidence that Scripture alone was the perfect, self-sufficient rule of faith. It seemed noble: God had spoken, the words were written, and nothing else could bind the conscience. But the more carefully I examined what that claim entailed, the more I discovered fault lines beneath
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Prologue Many who profess sola scriptura sincerely wish to exalt the Word of God above human tradition. They fear that any living authority might obscure the sufficiency of Scripture or enslave conscience to men. Yet when one rejects all visible, infallible interpretation, the result is not divine liberty but human
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Article I – Of the Protestant Beginning I confess that many sincere Christians begin with the principle called Sola Scriptura, believing that a Christian must accept nothing as binding except what is contained in Holy Scripture. Yet this principle presumes that one already knows, with certainty, what constitutes Holy Scripture. Article
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As is usual amongst many non-Catholics, they do not have a solid grasp on worship or idolatry. This is unfortunate, but it a direct result of splitting from the infallible teaching authority instituted by Christ, as their final rule for faith & practice (the Bible) is not explicitly clear on