Tension of Loving and Fearing God

Jerry Bridges, in his book The Joy of Fearing God, describes the healthy tension between loving and fearing God:

In the physical realm there are two opposing ...

Unwavering Trust

The commercial begins with a young girl standing alone in a picturesque meadow. The camera then pans to another part of the field where it shows a gigantic ...

Bruce Willis on Morality

Actor Bruce Willis offers his opinion on church teachings about morality:

[Organized religion] used to hang the whole thing on one hook. If you don’t ...

Fear and Love in the Father

In Deepening Your Conversation with God, Ben Patterson writes:

[W]hen [my children] got old enough to wrestle with me, we played a game we called "Jabba ...

Why People Obey the Law

People obey the law for one of two reasons: they either love God or fear punishment. When both of these break down, the result is an environment that ...

What Sin Isn't

Many people confuse the conviction of sin with such feelings as inferiority, lack of self-confidence and so on. Yet whoever observes people closely can ...

Terrified by God

H. G. Wells was no friend of the church, but sometimes he served us well. Years ago in the New Yorker, he told a story about an Episcopalian clergyman. ...

Hard to Neglect God

"I used to write in my daily calendar '7-7:30 a.m.: Prayer.' But many times I passed that up. It was one more thing to pass by that day. ...

The Sinner's Loss

Those who would avoid the despair of their sinfulness by staying far from God find they have also missed the forgiving grace of God.

Unstable Decisions

When the fear of God is gone, the decisions of daily life are threatened.