The Law in Our Language

John Wycliffe's respect for the authority of Scripture drove him to promote an English translation of the Bible. The church bitterly opposed it: "By ...

Destroying the Evidence

It's a tough job trying to make Christmas nonreligious. ... To eliminate Christ from Christmas you would have to destroy all the evidence--including ...

Dulling the Sword

Euphemism has its place, says this Anglican priest, but not in the Bible. His criticism of the New English Bible [for example] is included in Fair Speech: ...

A Holy Truism

It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the ...

Blow Up, Dry Up, or Grow Up

If you have the Spirit without the Word, you blow up. If you have the Word without the Spirit, you dry up. If you have both the Word and the Spirit, you ...

Guided by the Light

Bob Mumford, in Take Another Look at Guidance, compares discovering God's will with a sea captain's docking procedure:

A certain harbor in Italy ...

You Can't Trust Yourself

It is easier for me to have faith in the Bible than to have faith in D.L. Moody, for Moody has fooled me lots of times.

Technology: Not So "User Friendly"

The first great communications revolution followed the invention of the printing press. The first thing they printed was the Bible. The second communications ...

No Common Voice

I can just come to imagine for myself that a man of more or less my own biological and social composition could have written Hamlet or Lear and gone home ...

Composer and Score

An awe for the composer, God, is necessary before a pastor can fully understand his score, the Bible.