The Divine Mystery

This is a mystery, that Christ can be the obedient, glorious love of God and the full measure of our disobedience, both at once.

The Mysterious Incarnation

In this poem written some 15 centuries ago, Augustine tried to capture the mystery of the Incarnation:

Maker of the sun,

He is made under the sun.

In the ...

Mysteries of the Bible

I am glad there are things in the Bible I do not understand. If I could take that book up and read it as I would any other book, I might think I could ...

Grasping Election and Free Will

During his days as guest lecturer at Calvin Seminary, R. B. Kuiper once used the following illustration of God's sovereignty and human responsibility: ...

Another World

An airline captain who flies overseas routes also runs a small filling station near his home. Between trips to Europe and the Middle East, he gets a kick ...

Unquestionably a Miracle

The philosophical case against miracles is somewhat easily dealt with. There is no philosophical case against miracles. There are such things as the laws ...

Holy Contradictions

Mysticism keeps men sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. The ordinary man has always been ...

Find Out about Prayer

Doctoral student at Princeton, 1952: "What is there left in the world for original dissertation research?"

Visiting lecturer Albert Einstein: ...

God's Garden

God took seeds from different worlds and sowed them on this earth, and His garden grew up and everything came up that could come up. But what grows lives ...

Life Isn't a Puzzle

Our lives are not puzzles to be figured out. Rather, we come to God, who knows us and reveals to us the truth of our lives. The fundamental mistake is ...