“In the beginning God created man in his own image, ever since we have been returning the favor.”
God is different from us.  Let’s get that straight. We are not God!
Let me give an illustration how different God is from us.  In Romans 12.19, Paul commands us to not take revenge, but to leave room for the wrath of God, and he quotes Deut. 32.35:  Vengeance is mine, I will repay.
What I get from this is that God, because of his infinite perfections, can act righteously in actions which we are …

The key to continual and deeper spiritual renewal and revival is the continual re-discovery of the gospel.
I have read and reread the article by Dr.Timothy Keller on The Centrality of the Gospel.   I hope this excerpt challenges you as it does me every time I read it…
Since Paul uses a metaphor for being “in line” with the gospel, we can consider that gospel renewal occurs when we keep from walking “off-line” either to the right or to the left. The key for thinking out the implications of the gospel is …

This is a response to a comment on my post “the happiness of God.” I felt it important to post on this because so many of us seems to glibly make statements about God’s nature without truly thinking it through.  I don’t suggest this was done by my commenter, but it does stir up in me the desire to state emphatically how important it is for us to think!  And especially to think right about God!  Even though he is infinite and all-sufficient, He HAS declared a lot about …

If our faith comments on government at all, its comment must be this – that the man should rule who does not think he can rule.  Carlyle’s hero may say, ” I will be king”;  but the Christian saint must say “Nolo episcopari.” (I do not wish to be bishop).  If the great paradox of Christianity means anything, it means this – that we must take the crown in our hand, and go hunting in dry places and dark corners of the earth until we find the one man who …

There are no ordinary people.  You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations – these are mortal , and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.  But it is immortals whom we joke with , work with, marry, snub, and exploit – immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn.  We must play.  But our merriment must be of the kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who …