Sublime

The pastor, then, must do something much more difficult than our ancestors had to: she must contend that a personal God can act in an impersonal universe and therefore challenge the theory that the universe is closed.

we will gain wisdom into how Edwards thought about the problem of nominalism and how he addressed it.

The man I came to know well, over burgers and coffee and old photos and worn bible pages, was a man childlike and growing to the end, proof that the “good news” he always preached could be lived for a lifetime and remain good. His faith and life’s accomplishments did not produce a dour moralism. It did not produce a Graceland-sized ego. For all his

The pastor who neglects personal holiness has forgotten who’s in charge. He believes he is an employee of his flock, so it is not holiness he is chiefly after but the appearance of success, of “having his act together.” When today’s pastors think of being an example to their flocks, they primarily think in terms of appearing well-off materially, ha

I heard John Stott say that some people had been talking about “the irreducible minimum gospel.” He dismissed such an idea. “Who wants an irreducible minimum gospel?” he asked. “I want the full, biblical gospel.”

The intellectual underpinnings of Bonhoeffer’s convictions on life in a Christian faith community can be traced to his early works Sanctorum Communio and Act and Being, which undergirded his interpretation of the church as a primary form of God’s self-revelation.

We have to be careful about building theology from the Psalms unless it can be backed up elsewhere in Scripture.

The first and second generations of biblical counselors diverge in their approaches to counseling not merely because of differences in their personalities or preferences. Rather, their divergence arises from the different theological conclusions that each stream draws from Scripture. Indeed, the divergent emphases on habituation and heart motivatio

Conserving time.