Dan Greenfield

Category: Last Things

  • The Golden Rule

    If you’d like to stir the pot, tell folks that the “Golden Rule” doesn’t apply to everyone. If you’d really like to stir the pot, say the same thing about the entire sermon encompassing the Golden Rule (Matthew 5-7, the “Sermon on the Mount”). Lest one think my dispensational convictions have…

  • The Coming Reign of the Lord Jesus Christ

    Jesus shall reign where’er the sun Does his successive journeys run; His kingdom stretch from shore to shore, Till moons shall wax and wane no more. Behold the islands with their kings, And Europe her best tribute brings; From north to south the princes meet, To pay their homage at…

  • Daily Bale for October 2, 2012

    Today started significantly different than most other days. Hannah is getting braces and that’s done at Case Western Reserve. It’s a lot cheaper but it isn’t exactly around the corner, being a good 45 minute drive away. Of course, there isn’t a whole lot around the corner where I live anyway!…

  • Defend the Faith Biblical Challenge

    I received an email today from one of many news services about religious items. Wow, talk about invective! The low-down: An author asks folks to supply evidence that he has used the Bible incorrectly in his latest book, The Case Against Evangelical Christianity, specifically these points: The book makes several controversial…

  • The Tolling Bell

    Oft as the bell, with solemn toll, Speaks the departure of a soul, Let each one ask himself, “Am I Prepar’d, should I be call’d to die?” Only this frail and fleeting breath Preserves me from the jaws of death; Soon as it fails, at once I’m gone, And plung’d…

  • Who Said Liberalism is Dead?

    It’s been the opinion of some that theological liberalism is dead. Simplistically, theological liberalism describes those who call themselves Christians but deny many (if not most) of the doctrines that make Christianity Christianity. Some believe that liberalism’s sun has set and its dead and buried. I don’t think so. Come…

  • Date Setting Gone Crazy

    I’ve mentioned before to our church folks about the kookiness of Harold Camping. He’s “discovered” the date of the rapture, May 21, 2011, and here’s his reasoning: By Camping’s understanding, the Bible was dictated by God and every word and number carries a spiritual significance. He noticed that particular numbers appeared in the…

  • The Second Advent

    Let these things sink down into our minds. In all our thoughts about Christ, let us never forget His second advent. It is well to know that He lived for us, and died for us, and rose again for us, and intercedes for us. But it is also well to…

  • The Day of Judgment

    I read this verse (Ps 96:13) this morning– The Lord is coming, He is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in His faithfulness Sadly, the coming Day of Judgment doesn’t seem to be viewed as an essential aspect of the gospel…

  • Hail and the 7th Bowl of Judgment

    I’m teaching a class on the Book of Revelation for Great Lakes Bible Institute, and tonight we’ll be looking at Revelation 14-16. The close of chapter 16 details the seventh bowl of wrath, and the last verse reads and huge hailstones, about one hundred pounds each, came down from heaven…

  • Whitefield the…Arminian? Say It Isn’t So!

    Preeminent evangelist of the first Great Awakening, George Whitefield (1714-1770), has grown to be a “hero” of sorts for me over the last decade. His life has challenged me to be more active in the Lord’s harvest field, especially since my family gave me Dallimore’s two volume biography of the…

  • Future Expectation And Present Employment

    Paul’s point in 1 Thessalonians 5:1-10 is that because the Thessalonian believers are Christians, they will not suddenly find themselves present during the time of God’s end-time wrath, because “God has not destined them for wrath but for obtaining salvation” (5:9). The imminent event believers should expect is not wrath…

  • The Olivet Discourse

    This discourse was triggered by questions from the disciples in response to Jesus’ statement about the destruction of the temple. It is one of Christ’s longest discourses, and one of the most challenging to interpret. This account, known as the Olivet discourse, is most fully given by Matthew. Mark’s account…