In our society cultural analysts speak of the politics of envy, where politicians, for their own interests, stir up strife among people to create a kind of class warfare. The poor are set against the...
If I hope in anything or anyone less than One who has power over suffering and, ultimately, death, I am doomed to final disappointment. Suffering will drive me to hopelessness. What character I have w...
Honor must go not to our organizations, our denominations, our individual modes of worship, or even our particular churches, but to God alone.
Far from God seeking to destroy the self as many distortions of Christianity would claim, God redeems the self. He heals the self so that it may be useful and fulfilled in the mission to which the per...
Do the unborn have basic rights that should be protected by constitutional law?
Death often frightens us. When we see another person die, we are reminded that we are also mortal, that someday death will come to us. It is a thought we try to push from our minds. We are uncomfortab...
Could not God originally have decreed that no one ever would be able to sin, thus
Chicago. At that time, it issued a statement on biblical inerrancy that included a Preamble,
But, someone will say, does God not know, even without being reminded, both in what respect we are troubled and what is expedient for us, so that it may seem in a sense superfluous that he should be s...
But when the Holy Spirit does His mysterious work of regeneration, the first thing that changes in a person is the disposition of his or her soul. Now he cares for the things of God and desires to see...
At its root, this is what faith is. It is not believing in God. It's believing God.
A medida que luchamos en la vida cristiana, a veces lidiamos con nuestra seguridad en Cristo.
A Christian is not a skeptic. A Christian is a person with a burning heart, a heart set aflame with certainty of the resurrection.
The true power, the power that will change your life, is the power, the dunamis, of God the Holy Spirit, and God promises to attend the preaching of His Word with that power. Preaching has no power un...
The love, concern, and compassion that we have one for another should be so atypical of the world that they serve as definitive proof thatJesus was not merely a great moral teacher but the second pers...
So many of us are practical atheists. We may be theoretical theists, but our lives betray a practical kind of atheism in that we don't live in order to please God. If we don't live in order to please...
Since joy is a fruit of the Spirit, our sanctification is displayed not only by our love, peace, patience, kindness, and so forth, but by our joy
Protestants are particularly vulnerable to this distortion. We seek refuge in our precious doctrine of justification by faith alone, forgetting that the very doctrine is to be a catalyst for the pursu...
Prayer, like everything else in the Christian life, is for God's glory and for our benefit, in that order.
Prayer prompts and nurtures obedience, putting the heart into the proper frame of mind to desire obedience.