And I’m not going to open up that right now, but to use it just for a means of illustration. When people debate that very difficult, excruciatingly painful concept of predestination, so often people ...
Making sense of violence ... “You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do” (Mk 8:33). The bad idea started (and ended) with Peter. Isaiah comes from the world of the Hebrew ...
This understanding of the atonement is right in what it affirms, though there is nothing about the satisfaction of divine wrath and little about Christ bearing the penalty of sin. In this popular and ...
This promise assures us that God will always make a way, even in the midst of trials and temptations. Remember, even though you walk through the darkest valley in November, through the power of God, ...
The Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, was this last weekend. This year, I felt its cleansing power palpably. My reacquaintance with the power of Yom Kippur came decades ago. I see it as part of the ...
Using the word repentance with respect to God raises some problems for us. When the Bible describes God for us, it uses human terms, because the only language God has by which to speak to us about ...