Humanity, despite our best efforts, cannot answer the question as to why God allows evil to occur.
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05/06/26
This is an excerpt from the Chapter 7 of Being Family by Scott Keith (1517 Publishing, 2026), pgs 72-74.
05/04/26
Trueman engages the question of “What is man?” and demonstrates how contemporary definitions of mankind result in the dehumanizing of our neighbor.
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08/01/18
When those who are serving joyfully and willingly are instead encouraged to complain that they are carrying the load for the rest of the body, all hope is lost.
07/30/18
Writer’s Block, however, entertains no such fantasies. It goes straight for my ego’s jugular and pounds home the fact that I’m not good enough.
07/26/18
The Gospel is simple to confess. That is, we are justified by faith alone, through Christ alone, without the works of the Law.
07/24/18
The force of our love is violent. It is love acted out as, “I will love you in a way that’s best for me, and you’ll like it, and celebrate it, and reward me for it.
07/23/18
No matter which side, it’s easy for all of us to build Bible verses into grenades aimed at obliterating the political other.
07/20/18
Where once we confessed reliance only in ourselves and our own power, now we confess reliance on Christ alone. So, for our relationship before God, our confession of faith matters.
07/18/18
Our complaints about God's grace always sound the same: "It was good to see him in church with his son this morning.
07/18/18
We too believe that we can be just like God, perhaps even by helping God to be a God in our image.
07/09/18
Why confess sin? Is it so we can get rewarded by God? A little extra grace or material good for our troubles, maybe.
07/08/18
When we imagine we’re living an evil-shunning, virtue-practicing, morally superior Christian life, the problem is not that our halos are too small, but that our heads are too big.
07/06/18
The question at hand was quite short, “Who is Jesus Christ?
07/05/18
The Law gets a bad rap. There is certainly a negative component to the Law. The work of the Law is very different than the work of the Gospel.
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