Simon Peter said, “I’m going fishing.” (John 21:3) Peter and friends were relieved but a little disoriented. The sense of relief came from the knowledge that their leader—whom they’d seen arrested, beaten and crucified—was alive and had appeared to them several times. The problem was the disciples weren’t quite sure what they were supposed to […]
In his ongoing quest to make Jimmy Carter’s one catastrophic term seem like a four-year festival of victory, awesomeness and genius, the current occupant of the White House just continues to come through. This week we read that the President thinks it would be a grand idea to make voting compulsory. Washington Post: President Obama endorses mandatory voting. […]
The faithfulness of God is pledged to supply all our need in our wilderness journey. God would have us ever fall back on it. “Have faith in my faithfulness” He seems to say. Joseph G. Rainsford, The Faithfulness of God, (1861)
It’s impressive to think God knows THE future. But it’s staggering to consider that, in fact, He knows every possible VERSION of the future, driven by the moment-by-moment choices of more than 7 billion humans exercising the gift of free will. Which reminds me that Romans 8:28 does not say, “God causes all things.” (full stop) But rather that He “causes all […]
This 1,000-word blog post of mine summed up in fewer than 120 characters:
For no particular reason I was reading the Wikipedia entry for the “Plymouth Brethren.” I still can’t stop laughing about one particular passage concerning an 1845 theological dispute between Brethren sect co-founders John Darby and Wills Newton: Two years later, Darby attacked Newton over notes taken by hearers of a lecture Newton had given on […]
This may sting a little. At least at first. But stay with me. There is much good news and no small bit of comfort here. There is a rousing, thrilling sermon I’ve heard preached several times and in varying forms over the years. It always seems to be a crowd pleaser. The message is built […]
My previous post addressed the endemic and dismaying tendency of many to uncritically accept any piece of information—no matter how ridiculous—if it validates their existing biases. To put it in the Postmodern vernacular . . . Anything that fits your preferred narrative is clearly true and obviously important. As I’ve already noted, no one is immune, but younger, politically liberal […]
“On the throne of grace, sovereignty has placed itself under the bonds of love. God will do as He wills; but on the mercy seat He is under bonds—bonds of His own making—for He has entered into covenant with Christ, and thus into covenant with His chosen.” Charles Spurgeon
Pardon the expression . . . but if the Bible contains a string of “magic words” these are they. I’m referring to a phrase repeated numerous times in the scripture. In fact, these lines—in a few variations—are some of the most frequently repeated in all the Bible. The Bible reports that on several occasions, the […]
