ANNOYANCE. Conflict (Hebrew madon) in Proverbs does not refer to principled disagreements or respectful arguments. It is something God hates (6: 19) and at the heart of conflict is annoyance, a word t...
¿Te das cuenta de lo que está enseñando Jesús? Ninguno de los dos hijos amaba al padre. Ambos querían usarle para sus propios fines egoístas y no amarle, ni disfrutar de él ni servirle por amor a él....
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 paper...
El amor de Dios y su gracia pueden perdonar y restaurar cualquier pecado u ofensa. No importa quién eres ni lo que has hecho. No importa si has oprimido o incluso asesinado a gente, o cuánto has abusa...
Your joyful admiration has a fearful aspect to it. You are in awe, and therefore you don’t want to mess up. That is something we experience even in the presence of an admirable human being. How much m...
When evolution is turned into an All-encompassing Theory explaining absolutely everything we believe, feel, and do as the product of natural selection, then we are not in the arena of science, but of...
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 science sees the universe as naturalistic. While other cultures see the world as consisting of both matter and spirit, Western thought understands it as consisting of material forces only, all...
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...
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...
There are thousands of men and women who go to churches and chapels every Sunday, and call themselves Christians. Their names are in the baptismal register. They are reckoned Christians while they liv...
The Spirit of sonship that Paul speaks of is, therefore, an ability that the Holy Spirit gives us to approach God as a Father instead of as a boss or slavemaster. In
The world does not understand the Gospel of grace, in which holy living is the result of humble, grateful joy, not a way to earn heaven. The world therefore sees all righteous living as self-righteous...
The spiritual intense fixation of the mind, by contemplation on God in Christ, until the soul be as it were swallowed up in admiration and delight, and being brought unto an utter loss, through the in...
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.
The family is no longer what Christopher Lasch once called a haven in a heartless world, a counterbalance to the dog-eat-dog areas of life.58 Instead, the family has become the nursery where the cravi...
The essence of sin is we human beings substituting ourselves for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for us. We…put ourselves where only God deserves to be; God…puts himsel...
The Proverbs 30 prayer is different. It is to ask, Lord, meet my material needs, and give me wealth, yes, but only as much as I can handle without it harming my ability to put you first in life. Becau...
Prayer , then, is both awe and intimacy, struggle and reality. These will not happen every time we pray, but each should be a major component of our prayer over the course of our lives.
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...