Paradoxes hold everything together, not just in Inception’s plot, but in your life and mine.
07/07/25
One might say that the first statement of the Reformation was that a saint never stops repenting.
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09/20/20
As long as our illusions of control over storms and germs persist to govern our thinking, we will never be able to take the saving work of Christ as seriously we ought.
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09/20/20
Throughout the Gospels there is no quality more closely identified by Jesus with the life of His people than humility which echoes His own.
09/18/20
No matter how great our thirst is, God's abundance not only meets it but quenches it. When we are poor and in need, the Lord is always there to give us grace and mercy without end.
09/18/20
Solomon did not write Ecclesiastes to bum you out. He wrote it to set you free.
09/16/20
Maybe for the first time you can begin to receive creation as a gift, a sheer gift from God’s hands. And who knows what might happen in the power of this grace? All possibilities are open.
09/14/20
Viewing the Bible as literature is an essential and natural way of engaging the text. But there are also ways in which this practice can get lost.
09/11/20
The wisdom of God became man, lived, died, and was raised for the justification of sinners, great and small.
09/09/20
As much as Luther calls Christians to a sober belief in the devil, he also calls them to a firm and steadfast faith in Christ
09/08/20
One day at a time, God provides us with a heart of wisdom, and in this way, our Lord teaches us to number our days.
09/08/20
Christians have the rare faculty, above all other people on earth, of knowing where to place their care, while others vex and torture themselves and at length must despair.
09/07/20
From the junkyard of my past, I assembled the scrap metal of self-preservation, self-righteousness, and unalloyed selfishness, to weld together a hollow divinity. In its core, I stuffed myself: a god without divinity, offering forgiveness with conditions, to sinners without love.
09/07/20
Predestination is a promising teaching as Paul teaches it in Romans 8. It’s promising when Christ and his work for us are held firmly in hand.
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