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...
The sacredness of the individual is not balanced by any sense of the whole or concern for the common good.
The gospel’s power is seen in its ability to completely change minds, hearts, life orientation, our understanding of everything
The Spirit does not make us wise in some magical kind of way, giving us little nudges and insider tips to help us always choose the best stock to invest in. Rather, he makes Jesus Christ a living, bri...
Screen first for friendship. Look for someone who understands you better than you do yourself, who makes you a better person just by being around them. And then explore whether that friendship could b...
Our pleasure and our duty, though opposite before; Since we have seen his beauty, are joined to part no more. . . . To see the law by Christ fulfilled, and hear his pardoning voice Changes a slave int...
Not Christians. We don’t expect things in life to work for good of their own accord. When we find things working out beneficially for us, it is all of God, all of grace, all of him. When things work o...
Marriage used to be a public institution for the common good, and now it is a private arrangement for the satisfaction of the individuals.
Just as Christian singles find their heirs and family within the church, so do brothers find their sisters and sisters find their brothers.
Jesus is the prophet Jonah should have been. Yet, of course, he is infinitely more than that. Jesus did not merely weep for us; he died for us. Jonah went outside the city, hoping to witness its conde...
Jesus is not a metaphor. He is real. This all happened.
It needs to be said that faith-journeys are never simply intellectual exercises.
It is rearranging the raw material of God’s creation in such a way that it helps the world in general, and people in particular, thrive and flourish.
Instead of trying to shape our desires to fit reality, we now seek to control and shape reality to fit our desires. The ancients looked at an anxious person and prescribed spiritual character change....
In this Reformed view, the purpose of work is to create a culture that honors God and enables people to thrive.
In literature, plays, and cinema, substitutionary sacrifice is always the most riveting and moving plot point. In the movie The Last of the Mohicans, British major Duncan Heyward asks his Indian capto...
If I was saved by my good works, then there would be a limit to what God could ask of me or put me through, I would be like a tax payer with rights, I would have done my duty, and now I would deserve...
How does this destruction of social relationships flow from the internal effects of sin? If we get our very identity, our sense of worth, from our political position, then politics is not really about...
Haz de la comunión constante con Dios una prioridad. Deja de vagar como un ave y aprende a vivir cerca de Dios
For the first phase of American history, hope was chiefly expressed through a Christian story that gave meaning to suffering and pleasure alike and promised deliverance from death. But then, under the...