The book of Judges shows us that the Bible is not a Book of Virtues; it is not full of inspirational stories. Why? Because the Bible (unlike the books on which other religions are based) is not about...
The book of Genesis is a window into what cultures were like before the revelation of the Bible. One thing we see early on is the widespread practice of primogeniture—the eldest son inherited all the...
The angel literally says, Do not be fearing. Be perceiving. For I am telling you the Gospel. This is the principle—behold and you won’t be afraid. If you take time to comprehend (behold) what is in th...
The Biblical view of things is resurrection—not a future that is just a consolation for the life we never had but a restoration of the life you always wanted.
Proper contextualization means causing the right scandal — the one the gospel poses to all sinners — and removing all unnecessary ones.
Only if you have learned to serve others by the power of the Holy Spirit will you have the power to face the challenges of marriage.
One of the world’s most prominent philosophers, Jürgen Habermas, was for decades a defender of the Enlightenment view that only secular reason should be used in the public square.9 Habermas has recent...
Of course, not even the strongest believers love God perfectly, nor does anyone get close to doing so. Yet to the degree you move toward loving him supremely, things begin to fall into order, into the...
Many voices argue that it is exclusionary to claim that you have the truth, but as we have seen, that view itself sets up a dichotomy with you as the heroically tolerant and others as villainously or...
Lord of the Word, don’t let me be seduced by the world—either naively going with the crowd or becoming a hardened cynic. Help me meditate on your Word to the point of delight. Give me stability and co...
Jesus's sacrificial service to us has brought us into deep union with him and he with us. And that, Paul says, is the key not only to understanding marriage but to living it.
In this view of marriage, each person says to the other, I see all your flaws, imperfections, weaknesses, dependencies. But underneath them all I see growing the person God wants you to be. This is ra...
If the distance between the Earth and the sun—ninety-three million miles—was no more than the thickness of a sheet of paper, then the distance from the Earth to the nearest star would be a stack of pa...
En virtud de Su obra redentora, Jesús es a la vez nuestro Amigo y nuestro Prometido, y ese es el modelo que ha de imperar en el matrimonio cristiano. Marido y mujer tienen que ser al mismo tiempo aman...
Do you want to know who you are, your strengths and weaknesses? Do you want to be a compassionate person who skillfully helps people who are hurting? Do you want to have such a profound trust in God t...
Christians have their attitude toward God changed from one of duty to free, loving self-giving because of what Jesus did for us on the cross.
But second, this truth removes general fear and anxiety when life goes wrong. We know it hasn’t gone wrong at all! If God works in all things, it means his plan includes what we would call little or s...
Are you withholding your full trust in God until you get an explanation for some bad thing that happened to you? In light of Jesus’ undeserved suffering for you, are you willing to let go of that dema...
The gospel is the A to Z of the Christian life. It is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live as part of the kingdom. It is the way Christ transforms people, churches and communit...
Is remarkable that in all of his writings Paul’s prayers for his friends contain no appeals for changes in their circumstances. It is certain that they lived in the midst of many dangers and hardships...