Never Safe, Always Safe: The Paradox of God’s Providence
From a human perspective, we are never really safe, but from a divine perspective, if your life is in the hands of God, you are always in a situation of perfect safety.
My ultimate security and safety do not rest in the plans and provisions I make for this world, but they rest in the provisions of God. And if it’s God’s provision that my life is to end, I would much rather understand that it’s in His hands rather than assume that I am a victim... Continue Reading
The Problem with Christian ‘Worldview’
No matter the label, it’s all His, and that’s the view by which to navigate life.
Worldview has been done badly but, as a movement, it’s been largely self-corrective. Some of the earliest champions of Christian worldview, such as Herman Bavinck and Herman Dooyeweerd, pushed worldview thinking away from the confusions of German rationalism. Almost every popular champion of Christian worldview, from James Sire to Nancy Pearcey to Francis Schaeffer to... Continue Reading
A Simple Case for Inspiration
We have good reason to trust the authority of the Bible—both Old Testament and New.
In the upper room on the night of Jesus’ betrayal, he promised his disciples that the Holy Spirit would be given to them to bring to their remembrance the past things he’d taught them during his ministry (John 14:26) and also to guide them into all future truth (John 16:13). Thus, Jesus transferred his authority... Continue Reading
James and the Greatest Gap
As we resist the devil and repent, turning back to our bridegroom, we will find that he also draws near to us.
Here is the real gap that we need to face. Not just the gap between our conduct and our confession, nor even the gap between our past habits and our new identity. It is the growing gap between our hearts and his. Where there is unfaithfulness, God yearns for us to return. Where there is... Continue Reading
A Good God in a Wicked World: Considering the Problem of Evil, Part 3
God decreed the fall and all of its ensuing evils for the glory of his name.
As the heavens declare the glory of God, so he has devised the plan of redemption ‘to the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God’ (Eph 3:10). ”Thus evil is a necessary means by which God reveals aspects of himself... Continue Reading
Are We Misunderstanding the Most Important Doctrine in Christianity?
It's insufficient to say Jesus is God. Even the Arians agree. We have to show how the Son and Father are included in the definition of the one God of Israel.
Beyond the term Logos, we can look to Paul, who uses multiple descriptions: Christ as power, wisdom, and the image of God. Titus and 2 Peter simply affirm Jesus as God. This linguistic diversity isn’t confusion but a multifaceted testimony to the Son’s divine nature and relationship with the Father. In recent years, I’ve... Continue Reading
The Future of New Calvinism
“New Calvinism has shifted from an ‘All-Star team’ model designed to exert influence over the broader evangelical world to a post-superstar model that primarily serves its own community.”
“Young, Restless, Reformed” may have been accurate 20 years ago, but many who first fit the label are no longer very young, very restless, or very Reformed. “Gospel-centered” was tried and found wanting or inadequate. Whatever the movement is or was, it has now splintered into many parts, some of them antagonistic toward the others.... Continue Reading
No House Divided Against Itself Will Stand: A Consideration of the One Will of God
We confess God to be one in Being and will.
The Father is the principle or fount of divinity as the unbegotten One; the Son’s divinity is from the Father as His begotten Word; and the Spirit’s divinity is from the Father and Son as Love proceeding. Therefore, because each person possesses the entirety of the divine essence according to their particular manner of subsistence,... Continue Reading
Love Upended
When we remove love for God as the first and great commandment, we open a Pandora’s Box of ills.
Biblical love is informed by truth, infused with light, and invested with life. Remove truth and love has no backbone. It can’t be commanded or obeyed. It cannot function as a summary of the law. It loses its contours sculpted by God. “And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as... Continue Reading
Why the Information in Our DNA Points to the Existence of God
The information in DNA proves to be the decisive stumbling block for every naturalistic theory offered for the origin of life.
The chance arrangement of information in DNA is prohibitively improbable, and there are no chemical or physical laws at work to dictate its existence. We are left, then, with a paradox: the laws and forces of nature cannot produce information, but information is required for life to begin. The more we learn about the... Continue Reading
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