Craig Davis is an elder at Christ Community Church in Jackson TN. He has been engaged in study of Scripture since 1973. Authors who have particularly influenced his thought include Rabanus Maurus, Brother Lawrence, Jean-Pierre de Caussade, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Gustaf Aulen, Arthur W. Pink, C.S. Lewis and Kallistos Ware.
Spiritual Warfare
The Conflict in the Heavenlies Spiritual warfare – spiritual attack – is not only real, but it’s also not rare. Every evil thing that besets the Earth – sin, injury, illness, depression, heartbreak,…
The Lord’s Prayer
“The Lord’s Prayer” is perhaps the best known passage of scripture to Christians at large. It is most likely the first thing – if not the only thing – many Christians memorize from…
Kingdom of Heaven
“And (Jesus) charged them that they should not make Him known, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah, the prophet, saying, ‘Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved…
The Day the Church Faced Down Babylon
The book of Revelation warns us of Babylon. Revelation is usually considered to represent future events, but Babylon is upon us now, and indeed has been with us since – well, since Babylon.…
Job in Four Lessons
1 – The problem of suffering The book of Job has a number of themes, but certainly the most prominent is the problem of suffering. This matter is especially problematic because of Job’s…
The Church in the Book of Esther
The book of Esther has been an enigma over the centuries, largely because it is the one book of scripture without any mention of God. Also, it concerns faithful Jews who remained in…
The Trinity in the Old Testament
There is well-established Christian teaching that the Old Testament is full of types and foreshadowings of Christ. One has only to read the New Testament to learn many of these, as the gospel…
Christ Crucified Before the Foundation of the World
• God’s eternal plan “In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth. … And God saw that it was good. … Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image,…
Should Protestants Pursue Classic Christian Mysticism?
The idea of mysticism is not something our rational Western minds readily embrace here in the post-Enlightenment era. Our comfort zone is applying the scientific method to everything that our brains encounter –…
Good Friday Homilies
“Father, Forgive Them, They Know Not What They Do” “Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.” There was one righteous man on the hill of Calvary that one Friday,…
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