Discipline Is the Price of Freedom

We have not advanced very far in our spiritual lives if we have not encountered the basic paradox of freedom, to the effect that we are most free when ...

Limits of Theology

Respect for differing views...provides some defense against the natural desire to probe incessantly the mystery of the gospel. (There are those who would ...

Peace and Security

Peace is the opposite of security.

God Gives The Resources

You become stronger only when you become weaker. When you surrender your will to God, you discover the resources to do what God requires.

God Changed the Rules

A while ago I was trying to fix our garage door. I came to that one screw I had to get loose, and the more I worked to loosen that screw the tighter it ...

The Paradox of Pursuing God

What I am anxious to see in Christian believers is a beautiful paradox. I want to see in them the joy of finding God while at the same time they are blessedly ...

Healing in Weakness

We live in a world full of people struggling to be, or at least to appear, strong in order not to be weak; and we follow a gospel which says that when ...

Displaying Strength or Weakness?

In the spring of 1991, even before the brief coup in August, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev found his authority and leadership tested on all sides. ...

The Contrasts of Jonathan Edwards

Although his biography presents many dramatic contrasts, these were in reality only different facets of a common allegiance to a sovereign God. Thus, ...

Taken for a Ride

At the elementary school where I teach, we recently had a problem with students throwing rocks. The principal made an announcement over the intercom warning ...