Reflections on the loving kindness of the Triune God
It’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 …
Read More A Free GiftThe iconoclastic Canadian thinker of the last century, Marshall McLuhan, coined an aphorism, “The medium is the message.” Some critics disparaged his ideas—calling him more a poet than a philosopher—while others found him intriguing. I find him insightful. Jesus, I realized, said something similar centuries earlier and it bears repeating. McLuhan’s thesis in a nutshell …
Read More McLuhan was right!It can sound pretty presumptuous to say, “I know God.” “Really?” someone might ask. “Are the two of you pretty tight, or is he just an acquaintance?” It would be a mocking question, of course, because most people today treat God either as a distant concept or as a charade played by those who take …
Read More Knowing GodThis entry was first posted on the Cor Deo website. Please post any responses there by clicking here Have you ever felt abandoned by God? If you have you know it hurts more than any other loss. Why? Because we see God as a secure refuge: as one who loves us even if all others …
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