Paul looks back to this when he writes: I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. . . . For the creation was subjected to frustration,...
La mayoría de las interpretaciones de esta parábola se han centrado en la huida y regreso del hermano menor, el hijo pródigo. Sin embargo, así se pierde el verdadero mensaje de la historia porque hay...
La doctrina bíblica del pecado explica por qué el matrimonio, más que cualquier otra empresa humana, es algo tan difícil de conseguir que triunfe.
Jonah undertook what we could call an urban mission. He went to a city that was one of the largest in the world at that time. When God is arguing about why he should be deeply concerned for Nineveh, h...
Jesus’s own answer to this question, through the parable, is similar. He is on the side of neither the irreligious nor the religious, but he singles out religious moralism as a particularly deadly spi...
In 1961 the Russians put the first man into space, Yuri Gagarin. Nikita Khrushchev was the Russian premier, and he said that when Gagarin went into space, the cosmonaut discovered that there was no Go...
If we believe the great God of the universe really loves us, it should make us emotionally unshakable in the face of criticism, suffering, and death. In
If doctrinal soundness is not accompanied by heart experience, it will lead eventually to nominal Christianity—that is, in name only—and eventually to nonbelief. The irony is that many conservative Ch...
How do common phrases like You have to always be true to yourself create false worldviews that seem completely self-evident to people?
He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
Gospel beliefs and experience create a bond between Christians that is stronger than any other connection, whether it be blood relationship or racial and national identity (Ephesians 2; 1 Peter 2:9–10...
Give each other the right to hold one another accountable.
Forgiveness means absorbing the debt of the sin yourself.
First, each side should accept that both religious belief and skepticism are on the rise. Atheist author Sam Harris and Religious Right leader Pat Robertson should each admit the fact that his particu...
Evolution, therefore, cannot account for the origin of our moral feelings, let alone for the fact that we all believe there are external moral standards by which moral feelings are evaluated.
Everything we know in this world is contingent, has a cause outside of itself. Therefore the universe, which is just a huge pile of such contingent entities, would itself have to be dependent on some...
Contrary to popular opinion, then, Christianity is not a Western religion that destroys local cultures. Rather, Christianity has taken more culturally diverse forms than other faiths.25 It has deep la...
Christmas and the incarnation mean that God went to infinite lengths to make himself one whom we can know personally. What
Change from Change to 1. Individual salvation The gospel changes everything (hearts, community, and world) 2. Being good Being saved 3. Cheap grace Costly grace (awareness of our sin) 4. Heaven is up...
By comparing ourselves to other people and trying to make ourselves look better than others, we are boasting. Trying to recommend ourselves, trying to create a self-esteem résumé because we are desper...