His judgment of the world was purposeful. Even as he judged the world with suffering, he had in view a plan for the redemption of all things. God judged the world in hope of a final redemption from ev...
Your work will be only partially successful, on your best days, in bringing that world about. But inevitably the whole tree that you seek—the beauty, harmony, justice, comfort, joy, and community—will...
Yes, we should pray regardless of feelings, and yet we should do everything we can to engage and warm our hearts, because prayer is a lifting of the heart to God (Lam 3:41).
Work has dignity because it is something that God does and because we do it in God’s place, as his representatives . We learn not only that work has dignity in itself, but also that all kinds of work...
While anger is not a sin in and of itself, it should be a passing thing, directed without excess to solve a problem, resulting in calm at the end (29:11). In the same way, God’s anger is for a moment,...
When a Russian cosmonaut returned from space and reported that he had not found God, C. S. Lewis responded that this was like Hamlet going into the attic of his castle looking for Shakespeare. If ther...
We hide from ourselves our self-centered capacity for acts of evil, but situations arise that act as a potion, and out they come.
Un matrimonio que se basa no en la negación del propio yo, sino en una autorrealización, exigiría una pareja que apenas necesitara atención personal y que satisficiera todas las necesidades propias si...
This psalm is famously quoted in Romans 3:11: There is no one who seeks God. Left to ourselves, we would never want to find God, much less know him.
The word frustration here—mataiotes—is the same word as the one translated as vanity in the book of Ecclesiastes in the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Old Testament. It means nature is alienated...
The usual place to learn the greatest secrets of God’s grace is at the bottom.
The true god of your heart is what your thoughts effortlessly go to when there is nothing else demanding your attention.
The same sun that melts wax hardens clay. In other words, what makes a life good is not a particular set of circumstances, but how the heart interacts with them.
The first Advocate is speaking to God for you, but the second Advocate is speaking to you for you.
The Israelites must have wondered about this patriarch who was always in trouble. . . . This God does not align himself only with the obviously valued ones, the first-born. This oracle speaks about an...
She quotes three current studies into the subject of self-esteem, all of which reach this conclusion and she states that ‘people with high self-esteem pose a greater threat to those around them than p...
Salvation is not merely forgiveness and admission to heaven. It means life is healed, slowly but surely, in all its dimensions.
Put it this way—are his promises conditional, or unconditional? Judges is crucial, in that it shows that neither answer to that question is right. Nearly all readers of the Old Testament take a libera...
Prayer plunges us into the fullness of who he is, and his love becomes more real than the rejection or disappointment we are experiencing. Then we can handle our problems, and we can hold our heads up...
Our prayer is that as you read, you’ll be struck not by the contents of this book, but by the book it’s helping you open up; and that you’ll praise not the author of this book, but the One he is point...