“Imagine God speaking to you right now…”

by | Oct 28, 2020 | Spiritual Life

I mentioned this passage from John Frame’s book The Doctrine of the Word of God (which I also posted last year) during the study on Monday night. Here it is… God’s speech to man is real speech. It is very much like one person speaking to another. God...

You don’t need very many.

by | Oct 20, 2020 | Spiritual Life

Proverbs 10:19 is pretty famous in Christians circles, and for good reason: it’s very practical. It reads: In the multitude of words sin is not lacking, But he who restrains his lips is wise. Other translations have it: When words are many, sin is not lacking....

What about sin in the church?

by | Sep 21, 2020 | Spiritual Life

What does it mean when we say that the church is “holy”? I encourage you to press through some of this (kind of thick) language from Thomas Oden, to get to the meat within. The basic idea is this: though the church does not willingly love, tolerate, or...

How to make sure you make it.

by | Sep 7, 2020 | Spiritual Life

The other night I read this sentence in Thomas Oden’s book Classic Christianity: “The Christian life requires simple surrender of the will to God on a continuing basis.” There is so much in that one sentence–so much that is true. How will you...

Bound into the Shared Reality

by | Aug 20, 2020 | Spiritual Life

Here’s more gold from Alec Motyer. Reading Isaiah 56:1-12, he asks, what are the distinctive marks of God’s people? His answer: First personal decision, (“joined himself to the Lord”, v. 3, 6), and love of his name (v.6), the determination to...

Reasons to Not Trash People

by | Aug 5, 2020 | Spiritual Life

The other day I ran into this article by Anthony Esolen, in which he translated an old teaching on why we shouldn’t speak badly about others, or, as the author puts it, why we shouldn’t “speak ill” of each other. He says: “The following...