The first of a series of articles outline the historical, philosophical, and textual credibility of the Bible.
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Listening to others pray is always instructive. Our prayer life is an outward reflection of our real theology. The way we pray, the frequency of our prayers, and their content and tone all reveal what we really think of God, what we want from Him, and how much we believe that we need Him.
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What is the Christian supposed to do when God does what you were sure He wouldn’t do?
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A devotional meditation taken from a poem by John Donne for when God’s gentle knockings just aren’t enough.
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I have said this before, but it bears repeating; namely, if I could recommend one discipline that would make the most radical difference in the lives of every member of our church, it would be to memorize Scripture. Why don’t you try it and see?
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How to structure your prayer life…
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The Christian lives between two worlds. He is, in fact, a little bit of heaven nestled amidst this present passing age. Alive in Christ and dead to sin, he is like a man who is in between moving houses.
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The great Scottish Presbyterian minister, Thomas Chalmers, once said, "Prayer is the subtlest of all (God's ordained) causes. We cannot see it working. We do not understand how it works, but we ask on earth and the majesty of heaven gives.”
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The whole sorry affair can’t but remind us of the White Witch’s brutal Narnia, a land where it was always winter and never Christmas? From the Witches perspective--Better to endure a black midwinter than the bleak one graced by the Savior’s rude arrival.
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Isn’t that a wonderful way to think of death? The date is set in indelible grace. But it’s not the Grim Reaper coming to take you to the grave. Jesus is coming to take you home to God, the Father.
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Recently, I stumbled across a tweet that really got me thinking: “To complain about God is a sin. To complain to God is a Psalm.”
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Did Paul claim to be writing Scripture when he wrote his letters?
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How are we to judge tomorrow? A stairway to heaven or hell? Is history going anywhere?
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In this, the first of a number of pieces, we will unpack the Five Points of Calvinism, or what more accurately could be called the Five Responses of the Orthodox Church to the errors of Jacobus Arminius, and his followers…
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At the end of the 1541 edition of his Institutes, Calvin outlines the three habits of a healthy soul: self-denial, cross-bearing, and meditation on the future life.
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Pride has this effect upon us all; it turns us into glory thieves. Rather than directing all the glory to God, we bleed part of it off for ourselves.
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Five important affirmations to keep front and center in our minds during this uniquely contentious cultural moment.
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We have sown to the wind and now we must reap the whirlwind. I fear that it’s more than just our cities that are ablaze this week; the Republic itself is burning.
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The key questions for us this morning are: Which fork should the Church take on the road back to normal, and can you travel down the one that we, your elders, select?
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