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“Let’s see how inventive we can be in encouraging love and helping out, not avoiding worshiping together as some do but spurring each other on, especially as we see the big Day approaching.” (Hebrews 10:24,25, The Message) One of the casualties of the pandemic has...
PARADISE
What comes to your mind when you think of the Garden of Eden? Paradise? A place of happiness and fulfillment? It is the vision of life in all its fullness. The Bible is book-ended by descriptions of the garden of God in Genesis 2 and Revelation 22. It is hard for us...
REST
There remains a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest (Hebrews 4:1-11). Helmut Thielicke (1908-1986) wrote: I often think...
WHAT IS YOUR SELF-IMAGE?
God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over...
WHAT IS YOUR IDENTITY?
The importance of human identity is constantly in the news. We are supposedly defined by our race, our gender, our sexual preference, our past, our abilities and our opportunities instead of by “the content of our character” (Martin Luther King Jr.). We are being...
SEEING THE BIG PICTURE
When my grandson and I were working on a jigsaw puzzle I discovered that he was more adept than I in finding the pieces we were looking for to complete a section. I was wishing that the pieces were larger. I could see the big picture but found it hard to see which...
GLORYING IN CREATION
John Piper recalled eleven resolutions Clyde Kilby, professor at Wheaton College and C.S. Lewis scholar, made for staying alive to God’s glory in creation. At least once every day I shall look steadily up at the sky and remember that I, a consciousness with a...
YOUR LIFE: PLANNED OR AN ACCIDENT?
Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow in their book, The Grand Design, maintain that God is not required for the existence of the universe. Instead the laws of gravity and quantum theory allow universes to appear spontaneously from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the...
AGNOSTIC, ATHEIST OR CHRISTIAN (4)
Why do you believe in God? I have already written in the previous posts about my first three reasons: the human mind, the moral sense and the witness of revelation. But fourthly, and finally, I believe in God because of the Reality of Love. I grew up with an older...
AGNOSTIC, ATHEIST OR CHRISTIAN (3)
Why do you believe in God? I have already written in the previous posts about my first two reasons: the human mind, and the moral sense. But thirdly, I believe in God because of the Witness of Revelation. Because our reason is limited we need for God to reveal to us...
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