Category: The Spiritual Life

Lost Love

Jesus said that a sign of his nearing return would include an increase in lawlessness with the result that “the love of many will grow cold” [Matt. 24:12]. It’s not that a loss of love for God is only found in the end times. The problem was also cited in Ephesus where, although true doctrine …

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Gaining Perspective

As a new year arrives we often look back to events of the passing year, searching for a bit of perspective. It’s as if we’re seeking to weigh our recent life events in the context of passing time. But what is perspective, really? Every other week the full entry is posted on the Cor Deo …

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Networks

In a world filled with more and more social networking on the internet we taste God’s creation design in a new way. We are made to be relational—that’s our starting point. It comes from God, who as the Triune One, exists in his eternal life of communion, with the Father and Son always exchanging a …

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Strong Leadership

The Christian community needs better—stronger—leadership.  By that I mean spiritual leadership—the sort of thing Paul had in mind in Ephesians 4 where he wrote of leaders who could bring others “to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ”. Such leadership doesn’t look to basic management theory: Jesus wasn’t promoting …

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