Reflections on the loving kindness of the Triune God
Faith is a response of trust birthed by our meeting Christ “in person.” Knowing him produces a life-changing entrustment as we recognize and receive his love. Recently we wrote of grace as a “who”—the Spirit revealing his love in our hearts. His relational grace produces a relational faith working through love, as Paul taught in …
Read More Discovering FaithEmpty grace is an odd but widespread feature of Christianity. It offers a form of Christianity based on information about Christ but it lacks any power. The faith it produces affirms many social values and laws taken from Christianity while missing Christ’s most central invitation to know him by responding to his love. Living grace, …
Read More Living GraceAlso published on the Cor Deo website. Please post any responses on that site by clicking here Job’s pain pushed him to ask God for a reprieve and also for an explanation. In effect, “What, oh my God, are you doing?!” In the dialogue with his friends Job knew something of what the Bible reader …
Read More God’s agenda in JobIt’s mid-morning and I’m enjoying a morning coffee at Le Petit Café in the university district of Ljubljana, Slovenia. I arrived to the background sound of Amazing Grace in English playing on their sound system. It’s remarkably apropos because of my focus here for today: Jonathan Edwards’ Treatise on Grace. I drew from it yesterday …
Read More A Treatise on GraceThis post was first offered on the Cor Deo website. Please offer any comments on that site (click here). Is God good at expressing himself? The question matters, especially if we profess to have the ultimate God of the Bible as our own deity. Faith produces avid listeners and we can reasonably assume that our …
Read More A Wise FollyWe need truth even if we don’t always want to hear it. Yesterday I saw a woman leave the toilet in a coffee shop with a stream of tissue paper trailing from her left heal. She was around the corner in an instant so I didn’t chase her, but I was sure she would want …
Read More Truth & TrustThis post was first offered on the Cor Deo site. To offer any comments please click here Why questions? A number of answers jump to mind. With questions we probe the unknowns of life. A scientist uses questions to break new ground in a given field. The archaeologist literally breaks ground in asking, “What happened …
Read More A Question About QuestionsWhat would it be like to have a closet full of NobleWear? Imagine having slacks and shirts that made us morally bulletproof—so that when we wear our selected items everything we do would be pure and blameless. Think of Nathanael, for instance, when Jesus spotted him and, without having ever met him, said, “Look, a …
Read More NobleWearThis entry repeats the article posted at Cor Deo – please offer any responses on that site The early church father, Irenaeus, offered bread for hungry hearts. Here’s something from him I find helpful in coming to a new year. He wrote sometime around AD 180. “God recapitulated in Himself the ancient formation of man, …
Read More A New WayKeith Green, a radically converted Christian and gifted musician was a one-of-a-kind figure until his death in an airplane crash in the early 1980s. He was bold, reminding me of the apostle Paul’s courage and vision. Here’s a “Greenism” that gives a feel for what he represented: “If your heart takes more pleasure in reading …
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