Every person has his or her demons, and it is often in the unhappy consequence of knowing God that their assaults become even more vicious than before, battering against His child without mercy. Challenge and strife can assault from many quarters, but the son or daughter of God never stands alone. For the child of …
May Reflections
We must stop our bad habit of thinking of God from our perspective, from our example, from our non-omnipotent standard. We are born from the soil and we have a habit of thinking from the soil. Our God is not of the soil; He is not like us. And He is not just “better” than …
Complete First Things Now Available
We are pleased to announce that the complete, one-file PDF of our First Things study is now available. This is more than just all the individual session notes collected into one file. This 357-page document contains the maps, charts, and tables that were originally included in the class Handouts, and an interactive Table of Contents …
April Reflections
Venerable saints, long in tooth and short in memory, may be a valued repository of spiritual wisdom gathered over the years, but many have forgotten what it is to gasp in wonder at the majestic genius of a holy God. For many of us He has become little more than a favorite old uncle that …
March Reflections
In the opening chapters of God’s word the pattern is set: His repeated offering of blessings by living in accord with His will being repeatedly rejected in favor of rebellion, sin, depravity, evil. This is the pattern set by our corporate parents; this is what is now bred into every human being born after them. …
February Reflections
The morality and ethics of the culture in which we now dwell are soft and pliable—and grossly unserious. Nothing means anything, while anything goes. It is a plastic world: cheap, brittle, easily broken and easily thrown away. The more modern man strives to bring meaning to life, the less life means. If everything is anything, …
January Reflections
However one states it, we begin taking God seriously by acknowledging His centrality in our lives. He is not a neighbor; He is our spouse. He is not our buddy; He is our Lord. He is not our aged grandfather whom we visit once in a while; He is someone we live with, day in …
December Reflections
As an awestruck parent looks down upon her new child, imagining the soon and coming days of wonder and delight, so God the Father looked down from heaven, filled with the joy of what was to come in His new relationship with creation. Just as the obstructing veil would be coming down for small man, …
November Reflections
There is nothing else left, nothing that will satisfy our longing, except to be broken. So before the cross of Christ, before the open tomb, before the Father’s throne we remove the crown that sits atop our head—that glorious crown that represents every gift we have ever received from above, every talent instilled, every act …
October Reflections
There is no cycle of seasons when it comes to the cultivation of the gospel. We are never too young or too old to share the good news of Christ. The little girl can take her neighborhood playmate with her to Vacation Bible School; the old man can bring along his checkers buddy to Sunday …