Reflections on the loving kindness of the Triune God
This post repeats my current Cor Deo entry. Please offer any responses on that site: thanks! To go there click here Here’s a question for Christians: do you enjoy the adventure of following Christ? Or is your faith placid? And, if placid, would you accept something livelier? The premise of the question—that faith involves adventure—may …
Read More AdventureI prepared to speak on wisdom in the Bible book of James this week. In the process I reflected on how little I hear wisdom mentioned these days. People may be called clever, brilliant, silly, or more, but rarely are they called wise. I wonder why. Is it because of shifting language use? Certain words …
Read More Wise?This post repeats an entry on the Cor Deo website. Please post any responses on that site by clicking here Richard Sibbes, my favorite 17th century mentor, shared, “Whatsoever we do [in our responding to the Scriptures] if it be not stirred by the Spirit, apprehending the love of God in Christ, it is but …
Read More Collecting, Cooking, or Communing?How do we exist as persons? Are we free individuals? Are we limited cogs in a broad social mechanism? Are we elements of a larger organism? Or perhaps something else? Are we able to define our own place and meaning in life, or is it somehow defined for us? The Bible is happy to answer …
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