All that is required to know this salvation is belief: it is offered to everyone who believes (v 16).
Actually every day that your heart keeps pumping, your country is not invaded, and your brain keeps functioning is wholly an undeserved gift of God. We ought to live simple, normal, uneventful days fu...
Él espera que no disfracemos esas emociones con distracciones que prometen alivio, pero que nunca cumplen.
When someone says, I don’t need a piece of paper to show love, you might say, Yes, you do. If you love the way the Bible describes the love of two people who want to share their lives together, you sh...
The quartet of the vulnerable.
The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
If we live for and love any thing more than God himself, we are trapped. They become things we have to have, so we run, exhausted, after them.
Children of God only for those who have received Christ as Savior and Lord: Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children [tekna] of God (John 1:...
What is more ultimate, the absolute or the particular? The One or the Many? The ideal and eternal or the real and the concrete? Is Plato right or Aristotle? But the doctrine of the incarnation breaks...
Western secularity is not the absence of faith but a new set of beliefs about the universe.72
Ward observes that the passage does not say that first God spoke and then he proceeded to do what he said he would do. No, his word itself brought the light about. When God names someone, his very wor...
Verse 11 teaches us to use whatever gifts the Lord has graciously given us to make others stronger in their faith. Verse 12 teaches us to allow others to use the faith and gifts the Lord has given the...
To insist that death is nothing to be frightened of is simply another illusion muffling the obscenity of death. We live in denial of it, but like all repressed facts, it keeps disturbing us, haunting...
This is why in the Lord’s Prayer we don’t get to the petition for our daily bread and needs until we have spent time remembering the greatness of God and reigniting our love for him. Only then can we...
This is an enormous claim, but there is a certain logic to it. One of the most recent people to note this logic is Bono, the lead singer of U2, in a conversation with Michka Assayas: Assayas: Christ h...
There is a good lesson in choosing a leader here. We are often far too easily impressed by qualities that are unimportant to God. Further, we can far too easily be swayed by pragmatic arguments. God d...
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 repentance that really changes your heart and your relationship with God begins when you recognize that your main sin, the sin under the rest of your sins, is your self-salvation project.
Paul said when he got to the cities of the Mediterranean. He said, They saw him, and touched him. He really rose. That proves that the kingdom of God is real and will triumph. If you believe, you ente...
Paul is not saying that I must have nothing to do with the people and things of the world. Ironically, if I must have nothing to do with the world and must separate from it, then the world still has q...