A Thimble-full of Theology for Daily Living
Shares
Assign a 'primary' menu
  • You are here:
  • Home »
  • Author's Archive:

All posts by Randall Johnson

Protected: Teachers Forum

This content is password-protected. To view it, please enter the password below. Password:

Continue reading...

God’s Will

Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.  Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing

Continue reading...

How the Trinity Determines Our Purpose

Before we existed, was God lonely and needing someone with whom to fellowship?  Of course not!  Because He has always existed as a trinity of persons who share the one, undivided essence of deity, the

Continue reading...

Being Special in the Trinity

Are you satisfied to look the same, act the same, or think the same as everyone else at Church?  Of course not!  Are you just being selfish, then, unwilling to join your brothers and sisters in unity? 

Continue reading...

The Trinity and the One and the Many

The history of the Medal of Honor is the history of men and women who have acted bravely on the belief that the need of the many outweighed the need of the one.  They sacrificed themselves to save the

Continue reading...

How the Trinity Determines Our Purpose

Before we existed, was God lonely and needing someone with whom to fellowship?  Of course not!  Because He has always existed as a trinity of persons who share the one, undivided essence of deity, the

Continue reading...

Love and the Trinity

How would you demonstrate that your love is perfect?  If you’re all by yourself it is pretty hard to prove that you have love.  But if you are in relationship with someone, experiencing the rough and

Continue reading...

The Trinity and Other Religions

There is no other view of God like that of Christianity!  The concept of God as a triune being, the Trinity, has been a source of stumbling for many. Islam, which was created about 600 years after Christ,

Continue reading...

Getting Our Arms Around the Trinity

If there is one thing we know clearly from Scripture it is that there is only one God (Deuteronomy 6:4; Isaiah 44:6; 1 Corinthians 8:6).  But the other thing we know clearly from Scripture is that Jesus

Continue reading...

Unrelenting Prayer

How do you “pray without ceasing” (1 Thessalonians 5:17)?  It is, of course, physically and mentally impossible to pray every minute of the day, and it would leave little room for doing the many other

Continue reading...

Prayer in Jesus’ Name

It is the common practice for us to begin or end our prayers “in Jesus’ name.”  This is because Jesus instructed us on several occasions to pray in His name. And I will do whatever you ask in my

Continue reading...

Prayer and the Sovereignty of God

Why should I pray if God already knows what I am going to say?  And if He has planned out all the events from the beginning of time to the end, how can my prayer really change anything? Does the Bible

Continue reading...

Prayer According to the Will of God

“If we ask anything according to His will, he hears us” (1 John 5:14).  If we know the will of God in a matter, then we can pray with the confidence Jesus talked about when he said, “Whatever you

Continue reading...

Conditions For Answered Prayer (Part Two)

Jesus said, “Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours” (Mark 11:24).  Again He said, “I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring

Continue reading...

Conditions For Answered Prayer (Part One)

If by “answered prayer” we mean a “Yes” from God, a granting of our request, then not all prayers are answered.  There are conditions or requirements established by God that govern whether He

Continue reading...