I have previously proposed the use of the so-called “steps of salvation” as an avenue for spiritual growth. The first step is “hear,” and this essay is a first reflection on how to go about doing…
Some people think the apostle Paul might have been married at one point in his life. In fact, there was an early Christian tradition about it. Eusebius the church historian in the early fourth century…
“There were two subjects we never heard about in church,” Joy Winn told me one evening. She was referring to her childhood and young adulthood, decades earlier (roughly, the 1960s), in a church of…
Is Artificial Intelligence going to kill us all in just a few years? That is a question making the news now, because some bigwigs in the AI world have claimed that the apocalypse is coming and it’s…
Some Christians are Bible people, and others are prayer people. This classification is my invention. I am not completely sure that it’s original with me, but I did not read about it in Scripture and I…
In my lifetime, I have done only one good thing. Maybe two. Definitely not three. When I stand before God and he asks for an account of my life—interrogating me on what I have done with the tremendous…
Near the end of Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis includes a chapter called “Two Notes,” a very brief chapter which essentially offers two long footnotes to the previous chapter, which is called “The…
Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. (Matthew 15:13)People are sinners. Not some people; all people. Every single person who has ever lived is a sinner; no one…
In chapter 7 of The Hiding Place, Corrie ten Boom described the trouble she had finding a placement for a Jewish infant. Of course, this is during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, perhaps in…
For Part 1, see here.Is the divine Spirit male, or female, or neither? People have thought of the Spirit in all these ways. Most churchgoers in America probably instinctively refer to the Spirit as an…
