What Can be a Greater Honor Than This?
How great an honor will it be to a person to have God at the day of judgment owning a person, declaring before all men, angels and devils that that person is before his all-seeing eyes and that he...
View ArticleYour Love Shames Him
There is nothing so contrary to the nature of the devil as love, for he is a spirit who is full of malice. . . . The devil understands many things, but there is nothing that he would make such bungling...
View ArticleResolutions For 2010
Thinking about New Years and what resolutions I want to make for 2010. I, for one, see God's grace in the close of one year and the dawn of another. This yearly cycle gives us the opportunity to take...
View ArticleWas Jonathan Edwards Slippery on Justification?
Jonathan Edwards enjoys rockstar status among many evangelicals. After all, the 18th-century pastor from Northampton, Massachusetts, is arguably the greatest theologian America has ever produced. But...
View ArticleDarkening of the Light: Hawthorne and the Post-Puritan Conscience
Tall, mysterious, and handsome, Nathaniel Hawthorne was known for walking silently by himself. He was a writer and creator who could not bear the indignities of small talk. He was lost in worlds of his...
View ArticleChurch Planting as Spiritual Warfare
I've never fought in a war, but I've read my share of war stories, watched my share of war documentaries, and visited my share of war memorials. Every war had some objective, some overriding purpose...
View ArticleHow to Change the World
If anyone else had said it we would have thought him insane. He was surrounded by a large group of nobodies—Galilean peasants, wannabe-successful fishermen, a few intrigued Pharisees, riffraff, and...
View ArticleThe Danger of 'What This Really Means'
At some level we're all Nietzcheans now. During online debate and interaction with those whom we disagree, we often default to a "hermeneutic of suspicion" associated with Nietzsche, Marx, Freud and...
View ArticleTo Experience God's Love
Many Christians live at a great distance from a felt experience of the love of God. So much Christianity in the West is shallow and satisfied. It affirms a creed, but it so often lacks spiritual life....
View ArticleWhat Can be a Greater Honor Than This?
How great an honor will it be to a person to have God at the day of judgment owning a person, declaring before all men, angels and devils that that person is before his all-seeing eyes and that he...
View ArticleYour Love Shames Him
There is nothing so contrary to the nature of the devil as love, for he is a spirit who is full of malice. . . . The devil understands many things, but there is nothing that he would make such bungling...
View ArticleResolutions For 2010
Thinking about New Years and what resolutions I want to make for 2010. I, for one, see God’s grace in the close of one year and the dawn of another. This yearly cycle gives us the opportunity to take...
View ArticleWas Jonathan Edwards Slippery on Justification?
Jonathan Edwards enjoys rockstar status among many evangelicals. After all, the 18th-century pastor from Northampton, Massachusetts, is arguably the greatest theologian America has ever produced. But...
View ArticleDarkening of the Light: Hawthorne and the Post-Puritan Conscience
Tall, mysterious, and handsome, Nathaniel Hawthorne was known for walking silently by himself. He was a writer and creator who could not bear the indignities of small talk. He was lost in worlds of his...
View ArticleChurch Planting as Spiritual Warfare
I’ve never fought in a war, but I’ve read my share of war stories, watched my share of war documentaries, and visited my share of war memorials. Every war had some objective, some overriding purpose...
View ArticleHow to Change the World
If anyone else had said it we would have thought him insane. He was surrounded by a large group of nobodies—Galilean peasants, wannabe-successful fishermen, a few intrigued Pharisees, riffraff, and...
View ArticleThe Danger of ‘What This Really Means’
At some level we’re all Nietzcheans now. During online debate and interaction with those whom we disagree, we often default to a “hermeneutic of suspicion” associated with Nietzsche, Marx, Freud and...
View ArticleTo Experience God’s Love
Many Christians live at a great distance from a felt experience of the love of God. So much Christianity in the West is shallow and satisfied. It affirms a creed, but it so often lacks spiritual life....
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