Category Archives: creation

Chilling With the Scornful

It has long been my contention that the rampant skepticism about all things supernatural among the Reformed crowd is driven more by modernist assumptions than it is exegesis. We’re in a bit of a pickle, wanting to be true to … Continue reading

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Fairy Dust

It was the writer Arthur C. Clarke who posited this law- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. I disagree. The technology need not be advanced at all. The truth is that the sole reason we don’t see the … Continue reading

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Isn’t God just concerned with our hearts?

First, God is deeply concerned about our hearts. We often seem to think that only our thoughts and actions matter and our feelings are out of our control. Orthodoxy, right doctrine, matters. Orthopraxy, right behavior, matters. Orthopathos, right feeling, matters. … Continue reading

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Right Now Counts Forever

It was Augustine who argued that every sin is a failure to love ordinately. Sin is the result of either loving something more than we ought or the result of loving something less than we ought. We are to love, … Continue reading

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Is my money safe?

No, of course not. Your money, my money, everyone’s money is nothing but a paper house of cards that will one day, by the lightest of zephyrs, come crashing down. How far that day is is anyone’s guess. Our money … Continue reading

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Remembering Eternity

Though they don’t feel like such when we are in the midst of them, light and momentary, Paul tells us, are our afflictions, not worthy to be compared to the eternal weight of glory (II Corinthians 4:17). CS Lewis captured … Continue reading

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The One-Two Punch

The one thing I want you to be certain to do is finish reading this column and brush your teeth every evening. I trust at least two things strike you about this opening sentence. First, it’s a rather odd way … Continue reading

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Wu-Who? Lisa and I on Proverbs 31, Noah and More

This week’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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Last Night’s Romans Study

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Something New Under the Sun

Imagine, if you would, that you are the most powerful person in the world. Now imagine that you are also the richest person in the world. Would your life be fundamentally different? Would everything that is now ordinary about your … Continue reading

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