John Piper: Part of saving faith is the assurance that you will have faith tomorrow. Trusting Christ today includes trusting him to give you tomorrow’s trust when tomorrow comes. Often we feel today like our reservoir of strength is not…
This Sunday morning, take some 1000 year old advice from Anselm of Canterbury
Anselm was a brilliant medieval theologian (circa 1000 A.D.). Google him later this week to read about his ontological argument or his work on the atonement. But, first, in preparing your heart for worship, read these words that are nearly…
Neil Postman Lecture on Living in a Technological Society
Tony Reinke has posted links to a Neil Postman lecture available on You-tube. The late Neil Postman was the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death. If you are interested in how technology is shaping our identity you will profit from…
Just be wordlessly there for hurting people. At times, “Silence is eloquent sympathy.”
Os Guinness: But again, the one thing is clear: if we do not know the answers, it is better not to say . . . It is Job’s friends with whom God is angry. Speaking piously when they were ignorant,…
Unpacking Forgiveness Article at Reformation 21
An article I wrote on forgiveness is available on Reformation 21 Magazine today. I’ve been thinking recently about something television star Kelsey Grammer said. It’s not because I saw a rerun of Cheers. Unfortunately, the context is tragic. Grammer has…
Do We Have Free Will?
Andy Naselli: Non-Christians and Christians alike often give the same answer to difficult questions like these: Why did God allow sin in the first place? Why does God save some people and not others? Why does God send people to…
“I Don’t Want to Go to Heaven . . .”
Mike Wittmer: I don’t want to go to heaven. Not that I’m lobbying for the other place – – I want no part of everlasting fire and unbearable, unquenchable torment . . . I’d love to go to heaven –…
There Can Only Be One
Questions that encourage us to think about the richness of Scripture are worthwhile. This one qualifies. Gunny’s question – – "If R.C. only had one book in prison: The Bible. Only one chapter: Isaiah 6. Only one verse: Genesis…
The National Debt Road Trip
Very worth watching. HT: Z
For Those Who Think Their Sin Affects No One Else
“Rabbi Simeon bar Yohai taught: There is a story about men who were sitting on a ship, one of them lifted up a borer and began boring a hole beneath his seat. His companions said to him: ‘What are you…