Reflections on the loving kindness of the Triune God
Here is a crucial truth: you are not God. You never have been nor will you ever be. But what is a god? Here’s a description: Someone who rules the universe; or, in much more common and less grandiose terms—yet the same in substance—it is someone who thinks he or she is independent and wholly …
Read More Truth and FaithThis entry was first published on the Cor Deo website – I invite any responses to be offered on that site (click here to go to Cor Deo) A man asked me the question out of the blue. “Do we still have idols today?” A couple of options jumped to mind before I answered. First …
Read More Enjoying Idols?Car dealers speak of the trim levels available in every car model—meaning the features automatically added to a given version of that model. Options range from the very basic to the fully loaded. And salesmen know that the appetites and wealth of buyers vary so a successful salesman learns how to nudge a given buyer …
Read More True JesusThis Saturday Jonathan married Rosemary and I was invited to offer a Bible reflection for the occasion. Let me offer in a nutshell what I shared with them. In its ultimate expression marriage is God sharing his eternal life with us: we are united to Christ in marital oneness by his Spirit. So Jon and …
Read More MarriedThis was first offered on the Cor Deo website and repeated here. Please post any responses on that site. Thanks! Click on Cor Deo A rich benefit in reading through the Bible regularly and at a bold pace is that themes start to jump off the pages. One of these—I’ll note it in a moment—especially …
Read More Delighted or driven?God—the Father, Son, Spirit God of the Bible—is all about relationships. He always has been and always will be. Yet too many of Christians operate as slightly modified modalists in at least one respect: we treat God as a single and ultimate power source. Sorry for the jargon! The term modalism comes from early discussions …
Read More ModalismMany young Americans and Europeans today have given up on religion—they treat God as unappealing and unnecessary. Others retain a “sort of” God. For them God is a spiritual fashion accessory. Still others treat God as a “what if”: what if there really is a God, a heaven, and a hell? “Have we done enough …
Read More Knowing GodThis post has also been published on the Cor Deo site I share with Peter Mead. To visit please click here My conversion came as a distinct moment as I spoke to Jesus about what I had just read in Matthew 6:33 of the Bible. Christ’s new life brought a “lights on” change in the …
Read More Leaders or Lids?Mark returns as a guest contributor this week. His probing questions call for open-hearted reflection. Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness. If then your whole body is full of light, …
Read More Self-Revealing or Self-Deceiving?This post was first posted on the Cor Deo site. To visit the site please click here. What is spirituality? The question is huge—reaching well beyond a brief entry like this—but I would like to take a nibble. The main analogy for spirituality and spiritual growth in the Bible looks to organic or physical growth: …
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