Winging It

Andrew Wilson has a good piece in Christianity Today entitled Our Prayer Instincts Are Backwards . It is so true. We tend to pray backwards...

It's just a little verse tucked away in one of Paul's epistles. As for you, brothers, do not grow weary in doing good. (2 Thess 3:1...

Why is it that some people are seething -- some, angry enough to kill -- while driving because they lose a minute or two behind slow drivers...

It's interesting to look over the responses to the stuff I write. It's interesting what produces the most responses. Not to us, O L...

In Matthew 11 Jesus makes a startling statement that we seem to read right past. All things have been handed over to Me by My Father, and n...

I have a strange view of reality, at least in matters of faith and practice. It is my aim to define reality as the Author of reality does. I...

I suppose I shall have to learn a foreign language. I say this because it appears that my "first language", the language that I gr...

God's Omnipotence and His Sovereignty go hand in hand. He would have to be Omnipotent if He is to be Sovereign. That is, He would have t...

Jesus gives His disciples a parable in Matthew 18 (interestingly, right after He tells them how to carry out church discipline). In response...

I've said more than once that the primary authority on matters of faith and practice for Christians is the Bible. I've said more th...

Over in John 6 we have the story of the feeding of the 5,000 (John 6:1-14). After the event, Jesus exited quickly and the disciples headed o...

Many people approach Scripture with a philosophical predisposition. That is, "This philosophical position is true, so how does this inf...

In the famous words of Jesus, "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not p...

I think we're all agreed that Jesus's harshest words were for the hypocrites of His day. Indeed, if we understand the Hebraism, ...

Recently at church we went over the Beatitudes (Matt 5:3-12). You know ... from Jesus's famous Sermon on the Mount. There are (essential...

We've been told that God Himself gave us the right to, among other things, the pursuit of happiness. In truth, I've always balked at...

I don't know what concerns me more. Is it that Bernie Sanders leads Hillary Clinton in the Iowa polls, or is it that Donald Trump leads ...

I've written before about forgiveness, about how it is not unconditional and about how it is not "feeling better toward" some...

When Jesus taught His disciples to pray, He prefaced it with this. "When you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, fo...

I've never hidden the fact that I'm convinced, for biblical reasons, that reformed theology is true. (Don't worry. This isn...