Coming Untrue

“Does marriage hinder your relationship with God?” Hmm, I suspect somebody has been reading 1 Corinthians 7. “Those who marry will have ...

I wrapped up Jonathan Edwards’ Religious Affections the day before yesterday, and I should probably comment on its final few chapters whi...

The angel of the Lord called Gideon a mighty man of valor. Considering that he said it to a man hiding from the Midianites in a winepress,...

In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. The Independent reports that Belgium’s Walloon re...

“Philip found Nathanael and said to him, ‘We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and also the Prophets wrote — Jesus of Nazareth, the...

Thanks to the minor miracle of digitization, I have been listening to a series of 40-plus year old sermons my father preached to a congreg...

Sometimes the difference between making yourself clearly understood and leaving yourself open to wild misinterpretation can be measured in m...

“Should Bible translations use gender-inclusive language?” It’s axiomatic that God has poured out his love to both sexes. He sent his So...

I usually blow through books like the west wind. Not so with Jonathan Edwards’ Religious Affections , which I began back in February of th...

How would you feel if you had just seen God and escaped alive? The modern believer has difficulty putting himself in the sandals of an o...

In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. Yes, Leftism is just plain goofy. Philosophers A...

“What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.” So wrote Sir Francis Bacon, the father of the scientific method...

A post from August 2023 generated a record number of responses, many of them intense. I thought it was time to share the entire comment s...

Back in August of 2023, in the context of a study on the doctrine of sinless perfectionism, I wrote a post about the Brunstad Christian Ch...

“How can I stop being nervous about praying publicly?” I have been praying in church meetings going on fifty years now, and I cannot rem...

“But [Elijah] went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die.” Elija...

Last week, we looked at the historical circumstances in which God called Gideon to serve as his judge and deliverer of Israel. The Holy Sp...

In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. Last week in this space we were discussing a recent...

“Everybody’s looking for something …” So sang Annie Lennox of The Eurythmics . And she’s right: everybody’s looking — for something . ...

“ Suffering produces endurance.” The doctor’s diagnosis was wrong, and the steroids he prescribed have puffed your face up like a chipm...