“Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be happy in heaven if Christ were not there, will not be there. The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God. It’s a way of overcoming every obstacle to everlasting joy in God. If we don’t want God above all things, we have not been converted by the gospel.”
― John Piper, God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God’s Love as the Gift of Himself
Today I came across an article by Christena Cleveland on the website for The Table, a publication of Biola University’s Center for Christian Thought. The piece – titled ‘The Danger of Civility’ – was basically the transcript of a speech … Continued
JD Hall’s public support for causes I care deeply about is so self-absorbedly off-putting and unnecessarily abrasive; it undermines them.
Back in high school, I met a man named Charles. His last name escapes me now, but it’s not important to the story. Charles was a large, imposing, friendly fellow. But Charles identified himself as an Apostle. And Charles was … Continued
What is up with Christians leaving the faith? In July, Joshua Harris – pastor and famed author of ‘I Kissed Dating Goodbye’ – announced he is no longer a Christian, and he’s leaving his wife. Two weeks ago, Marty Sampson … Continued
Why do bad things happen to good people? How can a good God who loves us permit all the suffering in this world? These and other questions related to the problem of evil came up in a recent conversation I … Continued
I was in high school when JK Rowling wrote Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Perhaps I thought I was too old to read a kid’s book. Or maybe I was too distracted by sports and friends to care about the intense controversy … Continued
Who were these Nephilim, these giants? And where did they come from? They were none other than the giants and heroes of ancient mythology.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male or female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus Galatians 3:28 (ESV) Intersectionality and Christianity In recent years, the American motto e pluribus … Continued
Ultimately God decides whether a rebuke is valid. And we need not be ignorant concerning the mind of God. On the contrary, if we are tempted to throw our hands up and misquote “Who has known the mind of the Lord?” we would do well to remember that God has given us His Word, the Bible, to know what of His mind we need to.
We must understand the place for rebuke and the subsequent calls for repentance in the life of the Christian today in order to truly live for Christ either as individuals or as bodies of believers gathering together in his name.