When Christian believers care more for their own interests and security than for the good and salvation of other races and ethnicities, they are sinning like Jonah. If they value the economic and mili...
What, then, is marriage for? It is for helping each other to become our future glory-selves, the new creations that God will eventually make us.
We humans may say, Let there be light in this room, but then we have to flick a switch or light a candle. Our words need deeds to back them up and can fail to achieve their purposes. God’s words, howe...
Ultimately, the gospel is offensive because the cross stands against all schemes of self-salvation.
To have any kind of livable society some choices have to be restricted, some authorities have to be respected, and some individual responsibility has to be assumed.
To experience the joy and freedom of love, you must give up your personal autonomy.
Thomas Goodwin, a seventeenth-century Puritan pastor, wrote that one day he saw a father and son walking along the street. Suddenly the father swept the son up into his arms and hugged him and kissed...
This, too, is part of God’s plan for what our work should be about, and what it would still be about if we had not experienced the fall, which marred everything including our labor.
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.
This is gospel-humility, blessed self-forgetfulness. Not thinking more of myself as in modern cultures, or less of myself as in traditional cultures. Simply thinking of myself less.
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 only way to doubt Christianity rightly and fairly is to discern the alternate belief under each of your doubts and then to ask yourself what reasons you have for believing it. How do you know your...
The message of the Bible is that the human race is a band of exiles trying to come home. The parable of the prodigal son is about every one of us.
The kingdom of God - God's power to renew the whole of creation - has broken into the old world through Christ's first coming, but it is not fully here.
The founders of the great religions say, in one way or another, I am here to show you the way to spiritual reality. Do all this. That’s advice. Jesus Christ, the founder of Christianity, comes and say...
The essence of sin is we human beings substituting ourselves for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for us.
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 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.
Sin embargo, la división de la herencia solo tenía lugar cuando el padre moría. Aquí, el hijo menor pide la herencia ahora, lo cual era una gran falta de respeto, ya que hacerlo cuando el padre aún vi...