God Enthusiastically For Us On Judgment Day
Someday you will stand before God. What feeling did that statement evoke in you? Due to our innate feeling of sin and of God’s God-ness (or “holiness”), we fear. But…
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How to Receive God’s Gifts for God’s Glory
The previous post discussed the two opposite ways we can receive God’s gifts. One one hand, God’s gifts can (ironically) lead us to turn from God, as we cherish the…
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We Live in a Fathered World
Tim Chester, in his 2018 book Enjoying God, uses the term “fathered world” frequently. It’s a helpful term. He uses it to explain how the world we live in—and each…
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Is Total Depravity Biblical? What Does Total Depravity Mean?
Total depravity. Many have misunderstood this term (especially since it is not the best term, as we’ll see below), so in this post I’d like to clarify what it means.…
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Why God’s Election Gave My Wife Comfort as She Entered the Hospital
Last week my pregnant wife tested positive for cholestasis (a liver condition resulting in too much bile in her blood) and needed to be induced within twenty-four hours because the…
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4 Pictures of God’s Love
With what can we compare God’s love? C.S. Lewis gives four insightful analogies to picture God’s love. God’s Love Is More Than Kindness Before looking at the four analogies, we…
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Help for When We’re Feeling Overwhelmed
Psalm 102 begins with this introduction (and these psalm prescripts are inspired and part of Scripture), “A prayer of one who is afflicted, when he is faint and pours out…
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What If Christians Do Love the Lord Their God With All Their Heart, Soul, Mind, and Strength?
What if all Christians do love the Lord their God with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength? (Before you close this window with accusations of heresy, I encourage you to stick with me for a minute.) Many of us know the conversation between Jesus and the Pharisee: “‘Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?’ And [Jesus] said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind'” (Matthew 22:36-37). Jesus is citing a famous Old Testament text…
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Who is God? Look to the Story, Not Speculation
God in his Book does not reveal himself in the way of the philosophers. The vast majority of people in human history have agreed that there is a Supreme Being, a God or gods. And most have tried to philosophize about who he is like. It’s been common from ancient times until today. We can describe this type of thinking about God as ‘speculation’…
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God Is Happy: What It Means for Our Joy
Have you recently stood amazed at how happy God is? God isn’t frivolous, shallow, flippant, lacking in seriousness nor weightiness. He is almighty and fearful. Let’s be clear on that. But God is happy. Even hearing so may seem a tad strange. But recently I found encouragement in this truth: God is happy, at this moment, with himself, with all he’s doing, with his world…
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