Cornelius Plantinga: Christianity is against individualism. In the Old Testament God made his covenant with Abraham and his descendents, with a whole people. We now baptize persons not because they are individual believers or even because they belong to a…
“Since, then, there never has been, from the very first, any quarter of the globe, any city, any household even, without religion, this amounts to a tacit confession, that a sense of Deity is inscribed on every heart.”
"For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world,…
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…
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,…
The Bible is a Missionary Book
Dr. Paul Beals: The Pauline model for missions does not stand alone on the horizon like a silo raising out of an Iowa prairie. It is an integral part of the biblical panorama in which the triune God reveals Himself…
Why Do People Live Unexamined Lives?
Os Guinness (in Joe Gibbs, Game Plan for Life): One reason people live unexamined lives is because of what Blaise Pascal, a seventeenth-century French scientist called “diversions.” We are reluctant, even afraid, to admit that we all, without exception, will…
Chesterton on Christianity’s Giant Secret
Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian. Orthodoxy, page 170.
Can Someone Be A Believer Yet Not Be Committed to a Local Church? (On the misapplication of the doctrine of the invisible church)
Do you know someone who professes to be a Christian, yet is not part of a local church? Those who profess some faith on some level, but don’t attend church might appeal to the idea of the visible and the…
The Paradox of Repentance
Cornelius Plantinga: It’s hard to repent. And while it’s hard enough to repent before a perfect God, it’s even harder to repent before an imperfect human being. To admit that you have injured or neglected another person, then to go…
To have fallen into any one of the fads from Gnosticism to Christian Science would indeed have been obvious and tame . . .
. . . But to avoid them all has been one whirling adventure; and in my vision the heavenly chariot flies thundering through the ages, the dull heresies sprawling and prostrate, the will truth reeling but erect. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, page…