How we understand the person and character of God the Father affects every aspect of our lives. It affects far more than what we normally call the "religious" aspect of our lives. If God is the Creato...
What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that suddenly make something Christian art? Must the artist’s subje...
We need to be very careful to go to the pages of the Scripture to learn about God’s will and the leading of the Spirit, and not simply to listen to the popular teachings of the Christian subculture in...
We are not really surprised that God has redeemed us. Somewheredeep inside, in the secret chambers of our hearts, we harbor the notion that God owes us His mercy. Heaven would not be quite the same if...
The Christian is not a Stoic. Neither does he flee into a fantasy world that denies the reality of suffering.
Providence is not the same thing as God’s foreknowledge or prescience. Foreknowledge is His ability to look down the corridors of time and know the outcome of an activity before it even begins.
Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God more deeply and come to know the One with whom we are speaking mo...
I think the greatest weakness in the church today is that almost no one believes that God invests His power in the Bible. Everyone is looking for power in a program, in a methodology, in a technique,...
The real crisis of worship today is not that the preaching is paltry or that it’s too drafty in church. It is that people have no sense of the presence of God, and if they have no sense of His presenc...
Once we refuse to honor God as God, our whole view of life and the world becomes distorted.
No one was ever called by God to greater suffering than God's only begotten Son.
Man was created with an aspiration for significance, which is a virtue. Man can pervert that drive into a lust for power, which is a vice.
The essence of our salvation is found in this phrase: Simul justus et pecator.
If the Bible were the most boring book in the world--dull, uninteresting and seemingly irrelevant--it would still be our duty to study it. If its literary style were awkward and confusing, the duty wo...
If you want to find out what a person really believes, you should analyze his checkbook. As Jesus said, Where your treasure is, there will your heartbe also (Luke 12:34). So if you want to know where...
We want to be saved from our misery, but not from our sin. We want to sin without misery, just as the prodigal son wanted inheritance without the father. The foremost spiritual law of the physical uni...
The call to repentance is a call to return, a call to go back home.
Now I know who the Holy Spirit is.
Nevertheless, we can make a distinction between the three persons of the Trinity, because each member of the Godhead has unique attributes. We say the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spiri...
Justification is by faith alone, but not by a faith that is alone.