Well, here goes.  I have heard very few sermons on hell.  I don’t think I can remember even one!  With much discussion going around these days in attempts to “defend” God’s apparent “mean streak”, it is challenging to remain unaffected.  Certainly a loving God would not send anyone to eternal torment? Would He?
Some whom I respect deeply have made attempts to describe hell as a place where sinners would rather be than heaven, and that the doors of hell are “locked from the inside.”  All this to soften the image …

Dear Friends,
I want to give you this book!
I have been a avid listener and reader of Dr. Timothy Keller for three years now.  His insights into the centrality of the gospel have not only changed my life, which is the most important thing, but also reconstructed much of my harmful thinking i have embraced over the 35 years of my Christian experience.   The exposition of Jesus’ most well known parable in this new little book is the message that Mr. Keller states has helped direct the overriding vision of his …

1 Corinthians 3:21-23  So let no one boast in men. For all things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future–all are yours,  and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.
Recently, a friend asked me what I had been reading. I replied that I had just finished Gordon MacDonald’s fantasy, The Princess and the Goblin. To which he replied, “Wasn’t he an Arminian?”  I replied that actually George was a universalist (everyone is saved in the …