Gidada read avidly the Scriptures, and felt the urge to share what he was reading with those who didn’t yet know Christ. This desire was providential because, when Italy occupied Ethiopia in 1936, all British and American missionaries had to leave the country. The mission had to rely on local preachers.   His family name,... Continue Reading

The way the Spirit subsists in God shows up in the way the Holy Spirit carries out the divine works of redemption. Just as he is third, or we might say final, in the eternal order of perfect deity, he behaves thirdly or finally in the work of God. “To him belongs by economic office... Continue Reading

Evangelicals who deny timelessness must account for the implications that denial has for immutability, simplicity, and God’s eternality. If you change, redefine, or alter these doctrines of God, you have created a different God.   It’s just going to take some time. Time will heal. Or simply: with time my dear, with time. Time is powerful.... Continue Reading

In an age that beckons us to inhale cynicism and exhale contempt, we have a prime opportunity within our churches to show a more excellent way. Our secret is not chipperness or naivete. It is sober-minded, truth-informed hope.   Cynicism. It’s now in the air we breathe, the thoughts we indulge, the words we whisper,... Continue Reading

We think we need a miracle to confirm God’s presence. We don’t. We need to slow down and listen. We need to drink deep of the quiet voice of God in the Scriptures, often, slowly, reflectively, and thoughtfully.    Most of us would love to have a clear, personal experience of God. Wouldn’t it be... Continue Reading

Perpetua’s journal finishes with an amazing dream where she fights and defeats a great warrior in the very arena where she was scheduled to die the following day. As she awoke from her dream, an overwhelming sense of peace flooded her. “I understood that I should fight, not with beasts but against the devil,” she... Continue Reading

The Sabbath is a time to unplug from our vocational work. The author of Hebrews writes that we have to labor diligently to enter God’s rest (Hebrews 4:11). We have to work hard at disconnecting from what we do the other six days and really enjoy the release and peace that God has designed for... Continue Reading

Your personal hopes and dreams are always changing and burden you by their shifting goals. Duty, on the other hand, is constant and gives the peaceful rest of knowing what is required of you.   When you hear the word “duty” what do you think of? A soldier? A parent? Someone doing something they don’t... Continue Reading

If prayer works, I want some of this prayer stuff. But the moment prayer appears to stop working—my illness didn’t disappear, my bank balance seems to be depleting, the things I keep asking God for don’t seem to be happening—well, prayer has lost its appeal. Prayer doesn’t seem to be working anymore.   Of course,... Continue Reading

Where should you look for the proof that God is for you? Does it lie in the fact that your Christian life has been unbroken happiness? Does it lie in the fact that your Christian life has been one of ecstatic joy? There is only one irrefutable answer to these questions.    God has promised... Continue Reading