The doctrine of the Trinity teaches that God is one in essence and three in person, so He is one in one sense and three in another sense, and that does not violate the categories of rational thought o...
The central issue of Christianity is the issue of justification. It faces the dilemma squarely. The only possible way for an unjust person to stand in the presence of a just and holy God is to be just...
The apostle said he was hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed. He made no attempt to mask his pain in a fraudulent piety. The Christian is not a Stoic. Neither does he flee into a fantasy world...
The Supreme Court decided that the state has no compelling interest in the fetus until viability. (One wonders at what point the fetus has a compelling interest in the state.) By denying the unborn th...
The Bible never tells us to take a leap of faith into the darkness and hope that there’s somebody out there.The Bible calls us to jump out of the darkness and into the light.That is not a blind leap.T...
Such a Jesus has no need of a church. Worship is at best a hollow service and at worst an act of blasphemy if it is directed toward a dead teacher of morality. We have no church for Socrates. We sing...
Sometimes we make an artificial separation or distinction between the Old and New Testaments. We talk about the Old Testament as law and the New Testament as gospel, as if there were no law in the New...
Sin is a revolutionary act in which the sinner seeks to depose God from Histhrone. Sin is a presumption of supreme arrogance in that the creature vaunts his own wisdom above that of the Creator, chall...
Shepherds were not even allowed to give testimony in court because they were considered utterly untrustworthy, the dregs of society. In other words, the shepherd was seen as just a bit above a slave....
Puesto que Dios posee honor infinito, majestad infinita, y santidad infinita, el más leve pecado tiene consecuencias infinitas.
Paul resolved to preach Christ and Him crucified. Yet without the resurrection, we would be left with a dead Savior. Crucifixion and resurrection go together, each borrowing some of its value from the...
Our suffering has a purpose-it helps us toward the end of our faith, which is the salvation of our souls. Suffering is a crucible. As gold is refined in the fire, purged of its dross and impurities, s...
Our marks of piety can actually be evidences of impiety. When we major in minors and blow insignificant trifles out of proportion, we imitate the Pharisees. When we make dancing and movies the test of...
Our labor must not be simply for the acquisition of wealth, but for the glory of God.
Our divine vocation is not ultimately to suffering, but to a hope that triumphs over suffering. It is the hope of our future inheritance with Christ.This hope is no mere wish or idle longing of the so...
One of the things for which humans will have to stand trial before the heavenly tribunal is their ecological transgressions. Instead of dressing the garden, tilling and keeping it, we have polluted, e...
Nothing betrays our deepest theories more eloquently than our practice.
My purpose in writing this book is that you would not be surprised when suffering comes into your life. I want you to see that suffering is not at all uncommon, but also that it is not random-it is se...
Many still look at the kingdom of God as something in the unfulfilled future. But the kingdom has begun. Why? Because the King has been enthroned.
Love God? Sometimes I hate Him. This is a strange quote to hear from the lips of a man as respected for his religious zeal as Luther.