The Bible says that only in God do we live and move and have our being (Acts 17:28). We exist only because he is upholding us, keeping us together every moment. You are borrowing your being from him....
When we set our hearts on power, we become hardened predators. We become like what we worship.94
Whatever God's reasons for such diversity, creativity, and sophistication in the universe, on earth, and in our own bodies, the point of it all is His glory. God's art speaks of Himself, reflecting wh...
We are irreducibly hope-based creatures.
Through faith in the cross we get a new foundation for an identity that both humbles us out of our egoism yet is so infallibly secure in love that we are enabled to embrace rather than exclude those w...
This means that when facing unavoidable and irreducible suffering, secular people must smuggle in resources from other views of life, having recourse to ideas of karma, or Buddhism, or Greek Stoicism,...
They rout the inhabitants, and capture and kill Adoni-Bezek (the Lord of Bezek), who recognizes the rightness of this judgment on him (God has paid me back for what I did to them, v 7). It is notable...
Theodoret, a Syrian bishop in the fifth century, likened the gospel to a pepper: A pepper outwardly seems to be cold …
The same year that Dawkins’s The God Delusion was published, Francis Collins published The Language of God. Collins is an eminent research scientist and head of the Human Genome Project.
The fall of Adam and Eve (and therefore the rest of the human race) into sin has been disastrous.
So we can see all cultural production (and remember, everything we do at work is some form of cultural production) as a dialogue between our innate, affirming response to God’s common grace and the id...
Marriage used to be a public institution for the common good, and now it is a private arrangement for the satisfaction of the individuals.
Life is filled with hard choices, and it is childish to think you can avoid them.
Judges is the best book in the Old Testament for the understanding of renewal and revival, while Acts is the best place in the New Testament.
Jonah wants a God of his own making, a God who simply smites the bad people, for instance, the wicked Ninevites and blesses the good people, for instance, Jonah and his countrymen. When the real God—n...
It needs to be said that faith-journeys are never simply intellectual exercises.
In this Reformed view, the purpose of work is to create a culture that honors God and enables people to thrive.
Externalities are to do with our doing; internalities have to do with our being; and Christianity is about who I am in Christ, not what I do for Him.
People who are excluded by culture, excluded by respectable society, and even excluded by the law of God can be brought in to Jesus’ family. It doesn’t matter your pedigree, it doesn’t matter what you...
It is now also cursed because of mankind’s fall.