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Posted on March 6, 2014 Leave a Comment
It is ironic, but it is no coincidence. Shalom, the order of creation, collapsed in Eden when humans wanted the impossible promotion: to become gods. Shalom’s repair is achieved by reversing the process, with the improbable demotion when God becomes human. Nathan Bierma, Bringing Heaven Down to Earth Advertisements
Posted on February 5, 2014 Leave a Comment
Rather than trying to write God into our stories, we would be wiser to sit patiently with our Father and let him tell us his. We would surely find ourselves in his story and learn that we are not defined by our hurts or our sins, as we may have believed. As he tells us […]
Posted on October 10, 2013 Leave a Comment
God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were […]
Posted on August 24, 2013 Leave a Comment
The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self – all your wishes and precautions – to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call ‘ourselves’, to keep personal happiness […]
Posted on August 10, 2013 Leave a Comment
The means by which sinners are evangelized, the gospel word and the gospel community, are the means by which sinners are discipled. We continue to “evangelize” as Christians because it continues to be the gospel message with which we exhort and encourage one another. The good news that gives life is the good news that […]
Posted on July 27, 2013 Leave a Comment
If you should ask me to state in one phrase what I regard as the greatest defect in most Christian lives I would say that it is our failure to know God as our Father as we should know Him. That is our trouble, not difficulties about particular blessings. The central trouble still is that […]
Posted on July 19, 2013 Leave a Comment
When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discouraged, I love and I hate, I feel bad about feeling good, I feel guilty about not feeling guilty. I am trusting and suspicious. I am honest and I still play games. Aristotle said […]
Posted on June 18, 2013 Leave a Comment
Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, “Do it again”; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough […]
Posted on May 28, 2013 Leave a Comment
What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it-the fact that he knows me. I am graven on the palms of his hands. I am never out of his mind. All my knowledge of him depends on his sustained initiative in […]
Posted on May 13, 2013 Leave a Comment
Churches centered on the gospel aggressively go for the heart, not for behavior. Morality, or good behavior, is not the goal of godly parenting nor the goal of sound children’s ministry. A changed heart is. Obedience or morals may be the result, but a changed heart must be the goal. A change in behavior that […]
